Does this word even exist? I have used it all my life to mean a low, flat basin, the sort that one might use for handwashing clothes. Probably plastic. But no one other than myself seems to know it. It doesn’t appear in Urdu so far as I can tell. I put my recently acquired Hindi skills to use and tried a search for तसला which in Google Translate came up as meaning ‘tassle’, but hidden in the alternate meanings were ‘flagon’, ‘ewer’, ‘pan’, ‘jar’, ‘porringer’ and ‘scuttle’. All of these seem to be in the same general area so maybe I haven’t made it up. I got it from my mother but unfortunately she is dead so I can’t ask her.
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