köken: Borrowed from Mozarabic طوره (ṭwrh /tura, tuera/), from Latin thora, phthora, from Ancient Greek φθορά (phthorá, “destruction, death, damage”).
köken: Unknown. Questionable if attested in the Greater Bundahishn listing a flowering plant [Book Pahlavi needed] (kawastīg). Since Spiegel, dubiously connected to the Avestan name of an infectious disease 𐬐𐬀𐬞𐬀𐬯𐬙𐬌𐬱 (kapastiš) (which Latin pestis (“plague, pestilence”) has also been connected to), owing to the Persian term’s dictionary gloss “deadly poison”. Reasonably, though this was before it was…