# tusk
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈtʌsk/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (Northern England) IPA: /ˈtʊsk/
* Rhymes: -ʌsk

### Etymology 1

From Middle English tusk (also tux, tusch), from Old English tūx, tūsc (“canine tooth, tusk, molar”), from Proto-West Germanic *tų̄sk, *tunsk, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz (“canine tooth”), extended form of *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tusk (“tooth”), West Frisian tosk (“tooth”), Icelandic toskur (“a tusk, tooth”) (whence the Old Norse and Icelandic Ratatoskr and Ratatoskur respectively), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌿𐍃 (tunþus, “tooth”) and *𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹 (*tundi, “thorn, tooth”). Doublet of tush. More at tooth.

#### Noun

tusk (plural tusks)
* One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.
    Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.
* A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
* A tusk shell.
* (carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
* A sharp point.
* The share of a plough.

##### Derived terms

* milk tusk
* tusked
* tuskless
* tusklike

##### Translations

Arabic: نَاب (ar) m (nāb)
Egyptian Arabic: ناب m (nab)
Armenian: ժանիք (hy) (žanikʻ)
Azerbaijani: xillə
Belarusian: бі́вень m (bívjenʹ)
Bengali: গজদন্ত (bn) (gojodonto)
Bulgarian: би́вник (bg) m (bívnik), би́вен m (bíven)
Burmese: စွယ် (my) (cwai), ဆင်စွယ် (my) (hcangcwai)
Catalan: ullal (ca) m
Chichewa: mnyanga (of an elephant)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 長牙 / 长牙 (zh) (chángyá), 牙 (zh) (yá)
Czech: kel (cs) m
Danish: stødtand (da) c
Dupaningan Agta: paseng
Dutch: slagtand (nl) m, stoottand (nl) m
Egyptian: (jbḥ)
Esperanto: dentego, tusko, pikdento
Estonian: kihv
Finnish: syöksyhammas (fi)
French: défense (fr) f (elephant, walrus); dague (fr) f (wild boar)
Galician: cabeiro (gl) m, cairo (gl) m, queiro m, dentequeiro m
German: Stoßzahn (de) m (elephant, walrus); Hauer (de) m (wild boar)
Greek: χαυλιόδοντας (el) m (chavliódontas)
Ancient: στόρθυγξ m or f (stórthunx)
Hebrew: חָט (he) m (khat), חטים (khatím)
Hindi: खाँग (hi) m (khāṅg), गजदंत (hi) m (gajdant) (elephant's)
Hungarian: agyar (hu)
Irish: starrfhiacail f
Italian: zanna (it) f
Japanese: 牙 (ja) (きば, kiba), 象牙 (ja) (ぞうげ, zōge) (elephant's)
Khmer: ខ្នាយ (km) (khnaay), ទន្ត (km) (tŏən), ទាឋា (km) (tiəthaa) (canine), ភ្លុក (km) (phluk)
Korean: 엄니 (eomni), 송곳니 (ko) (songgonni)
Lao: ງາ (ngā), ແງ (ngǣ), ທັນຕາ (than tā), ໜາຍ (nāi) (of a she-elephant)
Macedonian: бивна f (bivna)
Malay: (elephant's) gading (ms), taring (ms) (boar's)
Malayalam: (elephant's) കൊമ്പ് (ml) (kompŭ), തേറ്റ (ml) (tēṟṟa) (boar's)
Maori: reiputa
Mongolian: соёо (mn) (sojoo)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: støttann m or f, støyttann m or f
Nynorsk: støyttann f
Old English: tūsc m
Persian: یشک (fa) (yašk)
Polish: cios (pl) m, kieł (pl) m (colloquial)
Portuguese: presa (pt) f
Punjabi: ਡੰਦ (ḍand)
Romanian: colț (ro) m, fildeș (ro) m
Russian: би́вень (ru) m (bívenʹ) (elephant's), клык m (walrus', boar's)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кљо̑ва f
Roman: kljȏva (sh) f
Sicilian: denti (scn) m pl, prisa f, canini m pl
Slovak: kel m
Slovene: okel (sl) m
Spanish: colmillo (es) m
Swahili: pembe (sw) sg (elephant's), upamba pl (boar's)
Swedish: bete (sv) c
Tagalog: salimao, pangil
Tamil: தந்தம் (ta) (tantam), கொம்பு (ta) (kompu)
Telugu: దంతము (te) (dantamu)
Thai: งา (th) (ngaa), ทนต์ (th) (ton)
Tibetan: མཆེ་བ (mche ba)
Tocharian B: ānkär
Ukrainian: би́вень (uk) m (bývenʹ)
Vietnamese: ngà (vi)
Welsh: ysgithr m
West Frisian: slachttosk
Yoruba: eyín erin (elephant's) :

#### Verb

tusk (third-person singular simple present tusks, present participle tusking, simple past and past participle tusked)
* To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
* To gore with the tusks.
* (obsolete) To bare or gnash the teeth.

#### Related terms

* tusked
* tusker
* tusklike
* tusky
* tusk tenon

#### References

* ↑ “tusk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “tusk”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

tusk (plural tusks)
* A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).

## Kashubian
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtusk/
* Rhymes: -usk
* Syllabification: tusk

### Noun

tusk m animal
* dog

### Further reading

* Witold Taszycki (2000-2001) Onomastica‎, volume 45, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich
* Zdzisława Stiebera, editor (1964), Atlas językowy kaszubszczyzny i dialektów sąsiednich‎, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich

## Ludian
### Etymology

Related to Finnish tuska. Ultimately from Russian тоска́ (toská, “melancholy”).

### Noun

tusk
* pain

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* tux, tuxe, tosk, tuske, twuxe

### Etymology

From Old English tūx, from earlier tūsc, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz. Compare tusshe.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tusk/, /tuks/

### Noun

tusk (plural tuskes)
* A tusk (protruding long tooth)
* Any long and sharp tooth.
* (rare) The end of a spear.

#### Derived terms

* tusky
* tuskyd

#### Descendants

* English: tusk
* Scots: tusk

#### References

* “tusk, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.

## Old Frisian
### Alternative forms

* tosk

### Etymology

Cognate with Old English tūsc.

### Noun

tusk m
* tooth

#### Descendants

* North Frisian: tos, tus
* Saterland Frisian: Tusk, Tüsk (Skäddel)
* West Frisian: tosk

## Veps
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old East Slavic тъска (tŭska) (compare Russian тоска́ (toská, “melancholy”)).

### Noun

tusk
* depression, melancholy, grief, suffering