Meaning

noun a salt used especially in baking powder

noun a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman

noun a member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century

originFrom Old French tartre, from Medieval Latin tartarum, from Byzantine Greek τάρταρον (tártaron), said to be from Arabic دُرْدِيّ (durdiyy), though it is already found in Pelagonius’s Ars veterinaria 46 in the adjective tartarālis, if the reading is correct. Arabic etymon from Persian درد (dord, “dreg”) from Proto-Iranian *dr̥ti- (“manure, feces”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰṛ-to-, from…

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