توسکا

Mazanderani

Noun

توسکا (tuskâ)

1. 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

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

• (Iran) IPA^(key): [tʰusˈkʰɒ]

Noun

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

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

Proper noun

توسکا • (tuskâ)

1. a female given name, Tooska, Touska, Tuska