- Origin: Indian
- Gender: Female
The name is possibly a modern coinage based on Slavic sounding names that came into fashion in India starting in the 1970s.
It has been suggested that it is based on the Sanskrit तनु (tanu), meaning “slender,” and there is also the Sanskrit तनुश (tanusha), meaning, “abounding in trees.”
For all intents and purposes, it is a modern name and has only recently appeared as a given-name.
It is borne by Tanushka Singh (b. 2001), the first woman pilot to be accepted into the Indian Air Force’s Jaguar fighter jet squadron.
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