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A kind of egg-based pasta in the shape of small balls.
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 807:
chocolates, coffee, biscuits, tinned sausages, wine, boxes of dried noodles of various shapes and sizes, a white cloth bag of tarhonya from the previous century.
Hungarian
tarhonya
Etymology
Circa 1600, from Ottoman Turkishتارخانه(tarhana), from Persianترخانه(tarxâne, “tarhana”), from تر(tar, “wet”) + خوان(xwân, “food, tablecloth, dining table”). The modern Turkish spelling is tarhana.
tarhonya in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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