tarhana

tarhana (countable and uncountable, plural tarhanas)

1. 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.

• Ratahan, arahant

From Ottoman Turkish تارخانه (tarhana), from Persian ترخوانه (tarxvâne), compound of تر (tar, “moist”) and خوان (xvân, “table”).

tarhana (definite accusative tarhanayı, plural tarhanalar)

1. 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.

• “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, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 475