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Päivän sana - rahka (quark, tvorog)
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nocturne sopuli.xyz nokturne213@sopuli.xyz
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Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *rahka, probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic *dragjō (“dregs”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɑhkɑ/, [ˈrɑ̝xkɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ɑhkɑ
  • Syllabification(key): rah‧ka
  • Hyphenation(key): rah‧ka

Noun

rahka

  1. quark, tvorog (soft creamy curd cheese made by souring or fermenting milk and removing the whey from it)
  2. Synonym of juustouma (“curd (part of milk that coagulates)”)
  3. (dialectal) dregs

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