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tarhonya

tarhonya noun: a kind of egg-based pasta in the shape of small balls.

Noun

tarhonya (uncountable)

  1. A kind of egg-based pasta in the shape of small balls.
    • 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.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 807

Origin of tarhonya

From Hungarian tarhonya. Doublet of tarhana.

Questions about tarhonya

What does tarhonya mean?
Tarhonya means a kind of egg-based pasta in the shape of small balls.
What part of speech is tarhonya?
Tarhonya is a noun.

Words near tarhonya in the dictionary

  1. tarhanas
  2. Tarheel
  3. Tarheeler
  4. Tarheelers
  5. Tarheels
  6. tarhonya
  7. tari
  8. Tariana
  9. taribavirin
  10. Tarica
  11. tarictic

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