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Most likely from Proto-Baltic *trav-, compare Latvian drava and Lithuanian dravis. Alternatively the same root as in tare (“farmhouse”).

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taru (genitive taru, partitive taru)

  1. beehive
Declension of taru (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative taru tarud
accusative nom.
gen. taru
genitive tarude
partitive taru tarusid
illative tarru
tarusse 		tarudesse
inessive tarus tarudes
elative tarust tarudest
allative tarule tarudele
adessive tarul tarudel
ablative tarult tarudelt
translative taruks tarudeks
terminative taruni tarudeni
essive taruna tarudena
abessive taruta tarudeta
comitative taruga tarudega
  • “taru”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • “taru”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • taru in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

tar- +‎ -u, probably from the same root as dialectal tarista (“to talk, tell stories”), which is of onomatopoeic origin. Adapted to modern meanings by Finnish postmaster, author and translator Otto Tandefelt in 1836, probably with some inspiration from tarina.

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑru/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ru]
  • Rhymes: -ɑru
  • Hyphenation(key): ta‧ru

taru

  1. epic, saga
  2. fiction, false
  3. legend, myth

    Se mitä hän sanoi on tarua.

    What he said is fiction.
  • IPA(key): /táː.ɽúː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [táː.ɽúː]

tārū m (plural tārunā̀, possessed form tārun)

  1. large fishing net

taru

  1. Rōmaji transcription of たる

From Proto-Polynesian *talu, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *talun, from Proto-Austronesian *CaluN.

taru

  1. weed, grass; small vegetation
  • “taru” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Alternative scripts

From Sanskrit तरु (taru).

taru m

  1. tree
    Synonym: rukkha
  • Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “taru”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

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