# taska
## Faroese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtʰaska/
* Rhymes: -aska

### Noun

taska f (genitive singular tasku, plural taskur)
* bag

#### Declension
### Anagrams

* kasta
* skata

## Hausa
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tás.kàː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [tás.kàː]

### Noun

taskā̀ f (plural taskōkī, possessed form taskàr̃)
* personal room of the head of the household
* storeroom
* safe, strongbox

### References

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

## Icelandic
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtʰaska/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aska

### Noun

taska f (genitive singular tösku, nominative plural töskur)
* bag, case

#### Hypernyms

* geymsla, hirsla

#### Derived terms

* ferðataska
* handtaska

### Anagrams

* kasta
* skata

## Kashubian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtas.ka/
* Rhymes: -aska
* Syllabification: tas‧ka

### Noun

taska f
* cup
    Synonym: bôlka

### Further reading

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

## Lower Sorbian
### Etymology

tasa +‎ -ka

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtaska/

### Noun

taska f
* diminutive of tasa

#### Declension
## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *taskǭ.

### Noun

taska f (genitive tǫsku, plural tǫskur)
* bag, sack
** tǫskur tvær fullar með gull ok silfr

#### Derived terms

* tǫskuþjófr

#### Descendants

* Danish: taske
* Faroese: taska
* Icelandic: taska
* Norwegian (Nynorsk): taske
* Norwegian (Bokmål): taske
* Swedish: task

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “taska”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 433; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857
* page/433 Internet Archive]

## Polish
### Etymology

From German Tasse +‎ -ka. Compare Kashubian taska.

### Pronunciation

* (Greater Poland):
** (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) IPA: /ˈtas.ka/

### Noun

taska f
* (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) Synonym of filiżanka

### Further reading

* 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

## Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

taska c
* (archaic) bag, purse

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | taska | taskas |
| singular | definite | taskan | taskans |
| plural | indefinite | taskor | taskors |
| plural | definite | taskorna | taskornas |

#### Derived terms

* krabbtaska

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* kasta, katsa, sakta, skata, staka