tarhana
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See also: trahana
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]tarhana (countable and uncountable, plural tarhanas)
- A dried food based on a fermented mixture of grain and yogurt or fermented milk, usually made into a thick soup with water, stock, or milk.
Translations
[edit]dried food
Anagrams
[edit]Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish تارخانه (tarhana), from Persian ترخوانه (tarxvâne), compound of تر (tar, “moist”) and خوان (xvân, “table”).
Noun
[edit]tarhana (definite accusative tarhanayı, plural tarhanalar)
- A dried food based on a fermented mixture of grain and yogurt or fermented milk, usually made into a thick soup with water, stock, or milk.
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tarhana”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tarhana”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تارخانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 475