توسکا
Mazanderani edit
Noun edit
توسکا (tuskâ)
- alder tree
Persian edit
Alternative forms edit
- توسا (tusâ), توسه (tuse), طوس (tus), توس (tus), توش (tuš), طوش (tuš), غوش (guš), غوشه (guše), هوش (huš), تیس (tis)
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (Iranian Persian) IPA(key): [tʰusˈkʰɒ]
Noun edit
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 edit
توسکا • (tuskâ)
- a female given name, Tooska, Touska, Tuska