Gender Feminine
Usage Turkmen (Rare)
Meaning & History
Derived from Turkmen towşan "hare", ulitmately from Proto-Turkic *tabɨĺgan "hare". Towşan Esenowa (1915 - 1988) was a Turkmen Soviet poetess, writer, playwright and translator. She was an "Honored Poetess of the Turkmen SSR" (1939) and "People's Writer of the Turkmen SSR" (1974).