... the dots on the Arabic "h"s, this time put above the letter) Tare . n. f. 1318. "déchet dans le poids ou la qualité", ital. tara; arabe tarhah "deduction, décompte"; p.e. [peut-être] avec ifl.[inflexion] de taré; "mangé de vers", que rattacherait le mot ...

... a dot under an h gives it a hard sound, like "ch" in German; I don't know what it does to a t): Oublions les rapprochements avec l'arabe taraha "jeter, lancer", ou taraq (racine trq ) "frapper" (et, paraît-il aussi, "prophètiser"), pour suivre plutôt le fil ...

... at 7...etc. So I read the whole essay starting with Ross who says 'Tarochus' was a word for 'idiot' right down to Professor Jaques May who said 'Tara' means the Jewish Queen Esther which means 'Star'. Now fundamentalists Christians believe the Bible was written by God, so it would follow that ...

... Milan or Bologna. Other writers believe it comes from the Arabic word طرق turuq, which means 'ways'. Alternatively, it may be from the Arabic ترك taraka, 'to leave, abandon, omit, leave behind'.According to a French etymology, the Italian tarocco derived from Arabic طرح ṭarḥ,'rejection; subtraction, ...

... seem implausible to me, the first because it is wildly speculative and has no positive support, while the two preferred etymologies - from tara (deduction, discard), or taroch , have positive evidence for them (particularly the second). The French-invasion theory is implausible because ...

... And why it was repeated by Menestrier 1704? Ross recently stated: There is also the tara (French tare) theory. This explanation goes back as far as the venerable Menestrier, in 1704. "As it was the Germans who first invented woodcut ...

... thing : I don’t know if someone has already mentioned this report but I do not think so. Vitali appears to be the first to find the meaning "tarato" linking it clearly to "tarochus". As I recall, one stumbling block to "tarochus" as the inspiration for "tarocchi" ...

... thing : I don’t know if someone has already mentioned this report but I do not think so. Vitali appears to be the first to find the meaning "tarato" linking it clearly to "tarochus". As I recall, one stumbling block to "tarochus" as the inspiration for "tarocchi" ...

... am I wrong... Tare=deduction is old, to be sure; it is given in my Webster's New World Dictionary , published 1967. tare n. Fr.; It. & Sp. tara; Ar. tarhah < taraha, to reject. 1. The weight of a container, wrapper, box, truck, etc. deducted from the total weight to determine the weight ...

... “via regia”. Un tempo si tendeva a pensare che il termine Tarocco/Tarocchi traesse origine dal tipo di decorazione delle carte stesse, dette a Tara, dal latino volgare Taràre, variante del verbo classico Térĕre, cioè cosparsa di punteggiature. La lavorazione in rilievo e punteggiata delle carte ...