توسکا

Mazanderani

Noun

⁧توسکا⁩ (tuskâ)

alder tree

Persian

Alternative forms

⁧توسا⁩ (tusâ), ⁧توسه⁩ (tuse), ⁧طوس⁩ (tus), ⁧توس⁩ (tus), ⁧توش⁩ (tuš), ⁧طوش⁩ (tuš), ⁧غوش⁩ (guš), ⁧غوشه⁩ (guše), ⁧هوش⁩ (huš), ⁧تیس⁩ (tis)

Etymology

From Mazanderani ⁧توسکا⁩ (tuskā), ⁧تسکا⁩ (teskā), ⁧توسا⁩ (tusā), ⁧تسا⁩ (tosā, “alder”). Apparently ultimately Mongolic, Mongolian хус (xus, “birch”), with the ending ⁧⁩ (-â) as in many Mongolic nouns auslauting in -аа (-aa); correspondingly, Persian ⁧⁩ (qân, “birch”) is from Turkic.

Pronunciation

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [tʰusˈkʰɒ]

Noun

⁧توسکا⁩ • (tuskâ) (plural ⁧توسکاها⁩ (tuskâ-hâ))

betulaceous tree, alder or birch (whereof the disyllables more often alder and the monosyllables birch)
(variant ⁧⁩ (tis)) mountain ash, rowan (Sorbus aucuparia)

Proper noun

⁧توسکا⁩ • (tuskâ)

a female given name, Tooska, Touska, Tuska

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