tasku

tasku

1. imperative of taski

From Swedish taska. Cognate to Finnish tasku and Votic tasku.

tasku (genitive tasku, partitive taskut)

1. pocket

Borrowed from Old Swedish taska, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ (probably through Middle Low German).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑsku/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝s̠ku]
• Rhymes: -ɑsku
• Syllabification^(key): tas‧ku

tasku

1. (clothing) pocket (bag stitched to an item of clothing)
2. pocket (enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another)
3. (bowling) pocket (ideal point to hit the pins that maximizes the chance for a strike)
4. (medicine) cul-de-sac (sack-like cavity, a tube open at one end only)

   Synonym: pussi

5. (as headword in compounds) chat, wheatear (passerine birds in genera Saxicola, Oenanthe, Myrmecocichla, Thamnolea, Pinaromis, Cercomela and Campicoloides)

   kivitasku ― northern wheatear

• fikka (slang)
• plakkari (dialectal)

• omasta taskustaan
• siirtää rahaa taskusta toiseen
• tuntea kuin omat taskunsa
• täyttää taskujaan

Birds with the word tasku in their common name:

Other compounds:

• “tasku”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• kastu, kusta, sakut, satku, sukat, tuska

• IPA^(key): /tás.kù/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [tás.kʷʊ̀]

taskù m (possessed form taskùn)

1. cruelty, oppression

tasku (genitive taskun, partitive taskuo)

1. a detached pocket attached to the waist

• kormano

• Pertti Virtaranta; Raija Koponen (2009), “tasku”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja, Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN

tasku (genitive taskun, partitive taskuu)

1. a detached pocket attached to the waist

• kormani

• Pertti Virtaranta; Raija Koponen (2009), “tasku”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja, Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈtasku/

tasku

1. accusative/instrumental singular of taska