Meanings
plural kadarkas
- A dark-skinned variety of grape grown primarily in Hungary.
- A variety of red wine made from this grape.
1 more example
The first night, I did nothing more than have a glass of wine at Faust Wine Cellar, located under the Dominican cloister that houses the Hilton Budapest Hotel in the Buda Castle complex. But my 1,050-forint glass of kadarka (a Hungarian red grape) came with the one-on-one services of Gabor Nagy, an owner and the sommelier, who practically wouldn’t leave the table.
2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times
Origin
- Serbo-Croatiankadarka
- Hungariankadarka
- Englishkadarka
From Hungarian kadarka, from Serbo-Croatian kadarka. Compare Romanian cadarcă.
More words from Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Hungarian kadarka, kadarka
- kadarkavariety of grape
- kadarkavariety of wine
Cite this entry
kadarka. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kadarka
“kadarka.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kadarka. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “kadarka,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kadarka.
Source: kadarka on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.