Where does “tarare” come from?
tarare (Italian) comes from Italian tara, from Arabic طرح, from Arabic ر, from Arabic رَأَى — to see.
tarare (Italian): to tare; to calibrate
Ancestry of “tarare”, step by step
tarare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian tara
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | tara | tare; defect, vice, flaw; deficiency |
| 2 | Arabic | طرح | to throw, to cast, to fling, to toss; to discard,... |
| 3 | Arabic | ر | second-person masculine singular active... |
| 4 | Arabic | رَأَى | to see |
via Romanian târî
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Romanian | târî | to creep; to lug; to drag |
| 2 | Proto-Slavic | terti | to rub, to scrape; to polish |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | terh₁- | to rub, turn; to drill, pierce |
Words derived from “tarare”