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Mazanderani
Noun
توسکا (tuskâ)
- alder tree
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Mazanderani توسکا (tuskā), تسکا (teskā), توسا (tusā), تسا (tosā, “alder”). Apparently ultimately Mongolic, Mongolian хус (xus, “birch”), with the ending ـا (-â) as in many Mongolic nouns auslauting in -аа (-aa); correspondingly, Persian قان (qân, “birch”) is from Turkic.
Pronunciation
Noun
توسکا • (tuskâ) (plural توسکاها (tuskâ-hâ))
- betulaceous tree, alder or birch (whereof the disyllables more often alder and the monosyllables birch)
- (variant تیس (tis)) mountain ash, rowan (Sorbus aucuparia)
Proper noun
توسکا • (tuskâ)
- a female given name, Tooska, Touska, Tuska