taska

From Old Norse taska, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰaska/
• Rhymes: -aska

taska f (genitive singular tasku, plural taskur)

1. bag

• kasta
• skata

From a Berber language; compare Northern Saharan Berber tazeqqa. A Tuareg origin is geographically more plausible, but no phonologically matching term is attested, and it would be unusual for a settled people to borrow a term related to settled life from nomads.

• IPA^(key): /tás.kàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

taskā̀ f (plural taskōkī, possessed form taskàr̃)

1. personal room of the head of the household
2. storeroom
3. safe, strongbox

• Kossmann, Maarten (2005) Berber Loanwords in Hausa (Berber Studies; 12), Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN

From Old Norse taska, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰaska/

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• Rhymes: -aska

taska f (genitive singular tösku, nominative plural töskur)

1. bag, case

• geymsla, hirsla

• ferðataska
• handtaska

• kasta
• skata

From German Tasse +‎ -ka. Compare Greater Polish taska.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaska/
• Rhymes: -aska
• Syllabification: tas‧ka

taska f

1. cup

   Synonym: bôlka

• “taska”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

tasa +‎ -ka

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaska/

taska f inan

1. diminutive of tasa

From Proto-Germanic *taskǭ.

taska f (genitive tǫsku, plural tǫskur)

1. bag, sack
   • tǫskur tvær fullar með gull ok silfr

• tǫskuþjófr

• “taska”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Entry "taska" on page 433 in: Geir T. Zoëga "A Concise Dictionary of Old Islandic", Oxford at the Claredon Press (1910).

From German Tasse +‎ -ka. Compare Kashubian taska.

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) IPA^(key): /ˈtaska/

taska f

1. (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) Synonym of filiżanka

• Antoni Krasnowolski (1879) “taska”, in Album uczącéj się młodzieży polskiéj poświęcone Józefowi Ignacemu Kraszewskiemu z powodu jubileuszu jego pięćdziesięcioletniéj działalności literackiéj (in Polish), Lviv: Czytelni Akademickiéj Lwowskiéj; "Gaz. Narod." J. Dobrzańskiego i K. Gromana, Słowniczek prowincjalizmów zebranych w ziemi chełmińskiej i świeckiej, page 310

Borrowed from Middle Low German tasche. Cognate of German Tasche. Doublet of task and taskspelare.

taska c

1. (archaic) bag, purse

• krabbtaska

• taska in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• taska in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• kasta, katsa, sakta, skata, staka