тарос

Bulgarian

Alternative forms

• та́рхос (tárhos), та́рхус (tárhus), та́рус (tárus)

Etymology

From an unattested masculine byform of Byzantine Greek ταρχόν (tarkhón) from Arabic طَرْخُون (ṭarḵūn, “tarragon”), also the origin of Serbo-Croatian trkos. Doublet of тарху́н (tarhún, “tarragon”), which has come to Bulgarian from Arabic via Turkish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtaros]

Noun

та́рос • (táros) m

1. tarragon, estragon (Artemisia dracunculus, growing plant and processed form)

   Synonyms: естраго́н (estragón), тарху́н (tarhún)

Declension

Declension of та́рос

	singular	plural
indefinite	та́рос táros	та́роси tárosi
definite (subject form)	та́росът tárosǎt	та́росите tárosite
definite (object form)	та́роса tárosa
count form	—	та́роса tárosa

Descendants

• → Macedonian: тарос (taros)

References

• Todorov, T. A., Racheva, M., editors (2010), “тархос”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 7 (слòво – теря̀свам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 830