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mouse

name · noun · verb · 25 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: mous
  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /maʊs/
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Canada: /mʌʊs/
  • rhymes with -aʊs
  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: mouz
  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /maʊz/
  • Canada: /maʊz/
  • rhymes with -aʊz
  • CMU ARPABET: M AW1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

The Walt Disney Company.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, metonymically, uncountable, with-definite-article

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A surname from German.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly

Examples

  • Near-synonyms: murine, murid, vole (all parasynonymous with this broad sense)

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: murine, murid, vole

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: muroid, myomorph, myodont, rodent, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism, gnawer, critter, creature

4

noun

Meaning 4

Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.

Such a rodent that is of the genus Mus.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly

Qualifier: strictly

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: murine, murid, vole

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: muroid, myomorph, myodont, rodent, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism, gnawer, critter, creature, murine, murid

5

noun

Meaning 5

Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.

A quiet or shy person.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly, figuratively

Examples

  • She's probably hiding in her room, she always does when we have company. She's our little mouse.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: murine, murid, vole

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: muroid, myomorph, myodont, rodent, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism, gnawer, critter, creature

6

noun

Meaning 6

Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.

A familiar term of endearment.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly, figuratively, obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: murine, murid, vole

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: muroid, myomorph, myodont, rodent, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism, gnawer, critter, creature

7

noun

Meaning 7

An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Examples

  • My mouse needs new batteries.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.

An on-screen pointer controlled by a mouse device.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Examples

  • Move the mouse over the icon.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

A facial hematoma or black eye.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: boxing, government, hobbies, lifestyle, martial-arts, military, politics, sports, war

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straightening out.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: nautical, transport

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

A match used in firing guns or blasting.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: mathematics, sciences, set-theory

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

A small cushion for a woman's hair.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

Part of a hind leg of beef, next to the round.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: mouse buttock

Antonyms: none provided

15

verb

Meaning 15

To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

verb

Meaning 16

To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

verb

Meaning 17

To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Topics: nautical, transport

Examples

  • Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

18

verb

Meaning 18

To navigate by means of a computer mouse.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

19

verb

Meaning 19

To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: nonce-word, obsolete, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

20

noun

Meaning 20

any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: rodent, gnawer

Narrower terms: house mouse, Mus musculus, harvest mouse, Micromyx minutus, field mouse, fieldmouse, nude mouse, wood mouse

21

noun

Meaning 21

a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a mouse takes much more room than a trackball

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: computer mouse

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: electronic device

22

noun

Meaning 22

person who is quiet or timid

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul

23

noun

Meaning 23

a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: shiner, black eye

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: bruise, contusion

24

verb

Meaning 24

manipulate the mouse of a computer

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: manipulate

25

verb

Meaning 25

to go stealthily or furtively

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • ..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: sneak, creep, pussyfoot

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: walk

History

Etymology

The surname is sometimes an Americanized spelling of German Maus. The metonym for Disney comes from its icon Mickey Mouse.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *múHs Proto-Germanic *mūs Proto-West Germanic *mūs Old English mūs Middle English mous English mouse Inherited from Middle English mous, from Old English mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs. Cognates Germanic cognates include Old Frisian mūs, Old Saxon mūs (German Low German Muus), Dutch muis, Old High German mūs (German Maus), Old Norse mús (Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish mus, Faroese and Icelandic mús). Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Latin mūs, Spanish mur, Armenian մուկ (muk), Old Church Slavonic мꙑшь (myšĭ) (Russian мышь (myšʹ)), Albanian mi, Persian موش (muš), Northern Kurdish mişk, Sanskrit मूष् (mūṣ). The computing sense was coined by American engineer Bill English in 1965 and first used publicly in a publication titled "Computer-Aided Display Control", in reference to the similarity with the animal.

Across languages

Translations

508 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Abkhaz: аҳәынаҧ (aḥwənap) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Afrikaans: muis — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Ainu: エㇾㇺ (erm) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Ainu: エㇾム (ermu) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Ainu: エルㇺ (erum) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Albanian: mi — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Amharic: አይጥ (ʾäyṭ) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Andi: гьинкӏкӏу (hinkkʼu) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Arabic: فَأْرَة (faʔra) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Arabic: فَأْر (faʔr) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Arabic: فار (fār) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Arabic: فار (fār) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Aragonese: zorz — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Armenian: մուկ (muk) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Old Armenian: մուկն (mukn) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Aromanian: shoaric — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Eastern Arrernte: thakwere — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Assamese: নিগনি (nigoni) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Asturian: ratu — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Asturian: ratón — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Asturian: mur — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Asturian: mure — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Atayal: olit — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Avar: гӏункӏкӏ (ʻunkkʼ) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Aymara: achaku — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Azerbaijani: siçan — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Balinese: bikul — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Balinese: jero ketut — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Baluchi: مشک (mušk) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Baluchi: موشک (múšk) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Bangi: mpo — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Bashkir: сысҡан (sısqan) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Basque: sagu — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Belarusian: мыш (myš) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Belarusian: мы́шка (mýška) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Bengali: ইঁদুর (ĩdur) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Bhojpuri: मूस (mūs) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Central Bikol: kino — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Bouyei: ranz — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Bouyei: waauc — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Breton: logodenn — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Bulgarian: ми́шка (míška) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Bulgarian: мишо́к (mišók) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Burmese: ကြွက် (krwak) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Catalan: ratolí — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Cebuano: ilaga — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Chamicuro: kijsili — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Chechen: дахка (daxka) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Cherokee: ᏥᏍᏕᏥ (tsisdetsi) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Chichewa: mbeŵa — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Chickasaw: pinti' — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Chinese Cantonese: 老鼠 (lou5 syu2) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Chinese: лочў (ločw) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 老鼠 (lō̤-chṳ̄) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Gan Chinese: 老鼠 (lau3 xy) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Hakka Chinese: 老鼠 (lo-chhú, ló-chhú, no-chhú) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Chinese: 鳥鼠 /鸟鼠 (niáu-chhí, niáu-chhú) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Chinese: 鼠 (chhí, chhú) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Chinese: 錢鼠 /钱鼠 (chîn-chhí, chîn-chhú) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Chinese: 老鼠 (ló͘-chhír, ló͘-chhí, niáu-chhú, niáu-chhí, niáu-chhír) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Jin Chinese: 老鼠 (lau2 su2) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Chinese Mandarin: 老鼠 (lǎoshǔ) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鼠 (shǔ) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Chinese Mandarin: 耗子 (hàozi) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Chinese Mandarin: 小鼠 (xiǎoshǔ) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鼷 (xī) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Wu Chinese: 老鼠 — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Wu Chinese: 老蟲 /老虫 — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Xiang Chinese: 老鼠子 (lau3 xy3 zr) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Chukchi: пипиӄыԓгын (pipiqyḷgyn) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Chuvash: шӑши (šăš̬i) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Cornish: logosen — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Crimean Tatar: sıçan — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Czech: myš — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Czech: myšák — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Dalmatian: surco — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Danish: mus — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Dhivehi: މީދާ (mīdā) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Dutch: muis — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Egyptian: p:n-nw-w-F27 (pnw) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Erzya: чеерь (čejeŕ) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Esperanto: muso — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Esperanto: musino — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Esperanto: musido — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Esperanto: musidino — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Estonian: hiir — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Even: ча̄ма̇кчан (cāmȧkcan) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Evenki: сиңэрэкэн — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Ewe: afi — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Faroese: mús — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Finnish: hiiri — rodent of the genus Mus
  • French: souris — rodent of the genus Mus
  • North Frisian: müs — rodent of the genus Mus
  • West-Frisian: mûs — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Friulian: surîs — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Galician: rato — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Georgian: თაგვი (tagvi) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • German: Maus — rodent of the genus Mus
  • German: Muus — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Greek: ποντίκι (pontíki) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Greek: ποντικός (pontikós) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Ancient Greek: μῦς (mûs) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Ancient Greek: ποντικός (pontikós) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Greenlandic: teriaq — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Gujarati: ઉંદર (undar) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Haitian Creole: sourit — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Hausa: ɓera — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Hawaiian: ʻiole liʻiliʻi — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Hebrew: עַכְבָּר (akhbár) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Hiligaynon: ilaga — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Hiligaynon: balabaw — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Hindi: चूहा (cūhā) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • White Hmong: nas — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Hungarian: egér — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Icelandic: mús — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Ido: muso — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Igbo: ọke — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Ilocano: bao — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Indonesian: tikus — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Ingush: дахка (daxka) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Interlingua: mus — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Interlingua: mure — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Irish: luch — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Irish: luchóg — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Italian: topo — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Italian: sorcio — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Japanese: 鼠 (nezumi) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Japanese: ネズミ (nezumi) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Japanese: ハツカネズミ (hatsukanezumi) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Japanese: マウス (mausu) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Jarai: tơkuih — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Javanese: tikus — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Kalasha: mizók — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Kalmyk: хулһн (xulğn) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Kannada: ಇಲಿ (ili) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Kanuri: jilwa — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Kapampangan: dagis — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Karelian: hiiri — rodent of the genus Mus
  • S'gaw Karen: ယုၢ် (yu̱) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Kashubian: mësz — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Kazakh: тышқан (tyşqan) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Khmer: កណ្ដុរស្រូវ (kɑɑkɑndao srəw) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Khmer: កណ្ដុរ (kɑndol) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Khowar: خڑاو (xaɫáu) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Armeno-Kipchak: սըչխան (sïč̣χan) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Korean: 생쥐 (saengjwi) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Korean: 쥐 (jwi) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Australian Kriol: brudbrud — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Kunigami: っゑっちゅー (wwecchū) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Central Kurdish: مشک (mişk) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Northern Kurdish: mişk — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Kven: hiiri — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Kyrgyz: чычкан (cıckan) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Lao: ຫນູ (nū) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Latgalian: pele — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Latin: mūs — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Latvian: pele — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Lezgi: кьиф (q̇if) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Lingala: mpo — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Lithuanian: pelė — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Lithuanian: pelėnas — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Lombard: ratt — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Low German: Muus — rodent of the genus Mus
  • : ᦐᦴ (ṅuu) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Luganda: emmese — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Lushootseed: k'wat'ad — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Luxembourgish: Maus — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Macedonian: глушец (glušec) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Macedonian: глувче (gluvče) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Macedonian: миш (miš) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Malay: tikus — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Malay: mencit — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Malayalam: ചുണ്ടെലി (cuṇṭeli) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Maltese: ġurdien — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Manchu: ᠰᡳᠩᡤᡝᡵᡳ (singgeri) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Northern Mansi: ма̄порсуй (māporsuj) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Manx: lugh — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Māori: kiore — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Marathi: उंन्दिर (unndir) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Eastern Mari: коля (koĺa) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Western Mari: каля (kaĺa) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Mazanderani: گل (gal) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Mi'kmaq: apigji'j — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Mi'kmaq: apugji'j — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Mirandese: rato — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Miyako: ゆむぬ (yumunu) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Moksha: шеер (šejer) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Mongo: mpo — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Mongolian: хулгана (xulgana) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Mongolian: оготно (ogotno) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Mongolian: ᠬᠤᠯᠤᠭᠠᠨ᠎ᠠ (quluɣan-a) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Mongolian: ᠣᠭᠤᠲᠤᠨ᠎ᠠ (oɣutun-a) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Mpade: kusumu — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Mwani: muku — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Nahuatl: quimichin — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Nanai: сиӈэрэ (siŋere) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Navajo: naʼatsʼǫǫsí — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Neapolitan: sorece — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Nepali: मुसो (muso) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Nivkh: мухтук (muxtuk) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Norman: souothis — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Norwegian Bokmål: mus — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: mus — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Occitan: mirga — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Occitan: fureta — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Occitan: ratuga — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Odia: ମୂଷା (muṣā) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Ojibwe: waawaabiganoojiinh — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Okinawan: ゑんちゅ (wenchu) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Church Slavic: мꙑшь (myšĭ) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Church Slavic: ⰿⱏⰹⱎⱐ (myšĭ) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Old East Slavic: мꙑшь (myšĭ) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Old English: mūs — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Old Prussian: pelē — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Osage: įchóka — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Ossetian: мыст (myst) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Pannonian Rusyn: миш (miš) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Pannonian Rusyn: миша (miša) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Pashto: موږک (muģak) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Dari: مُوش (mūš) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Iranian Persian: موش (muš) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Iranian Persian: مُشْک (mošk) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Plautdietsch: Mus (nds) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Polish: mysz — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Polish: myszka — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Portuguese: rato — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Portuguese: camundongo — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Punjabi: ਚੂਹਾ (cūhā) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Punjabi: ਚੂਹਾ (cūhā) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Punjabi: چُوہا (cūhā) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Quechua: ukuca — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Quechua: ukuş — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Quechua: juk'ucha — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Romanian: șoarece — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Romansh: mieur — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Russian: мышь (myšʹ) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Russian: мы́шка (mýška) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Rwanda-Rundi: umushushwe — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Rwanda-Rundi: imbeba — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Rwanda-Rundi: im-beba — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Saek: หนู่ — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Inari-Sami: säplig — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Northern Sami: sáhpán — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Skolt-Sami: sä ́ppli — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Samoan: 'isumu — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Samoan: 'iole — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Sanskrit: मूष् (mūṣ) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Sanskrit: आखु (ākhu) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Sardinian: tope — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Sardinian: topi — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Campidanese Sardinian: medrona — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Campidanese Sardinian: topi — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Campidanese Sardinian: sórixi — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Scots: moose — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Scottish Gaelic: luch — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Serbo-Croatian: ми̏ш — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Serbo-Croatian: mȉš — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Shan: ၼူ (nǔu) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Sicilian: surci — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Sicilian: sùrici — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Sindhi: ڪوُئو (kūʾō) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Sinhalese: මීයා (mīyā) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Slovak: myš — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Slovene: miš — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Somali: jiir — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Lower Sorbian: myš — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Lower Sorbian: myška — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Upper Sorbian: myš — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Upper Sorbian: myška — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Sotho: tweba — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Spanish: ratón — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Spanish: laucha — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Spanish: pericote — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Swahili: kipanya — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Swedish: mus — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Tagalog: daga — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Tahltan: dlūne — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Tai Dam: ꪘꪴ — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Tajik: муш (muš) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Talysh: морә (morǝ) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Tamil: சுண்டெலி (cuṇṭeli) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Taos: cìyúna — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Tarantino: topo — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Tarifit: aɣarda — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Tatar: тычкан (tıçqan) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Telugu: ఎలుక (eluka) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Thai: หนู (nǔu) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Northern Thai: ᩉ᩠ᨶᩪ — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Tibetan: ཙི་ཙི (tsi tsi) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Tigrinya: ኣንጭዋ (ʾanč̣əwa) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Tlingit: kagaák — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Tok Pisin: liklik rat — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Tongan: kumā — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Tswana: pêba — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Tumbuka: mbeŵa — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Turkish: fare — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Turkish: sıçan — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Ottoman Turkish: صیچان (sıçan) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Ottoman Turkish: فاره (fare) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Ottoman Turkish: موش (muş) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Turkmen: syçan — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Turkmen: sıçan — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Udmurt: шыр (šyr) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Ukrainian: ми́ша (mýša) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Ukrainian: миш (myš) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Ukrainian: ми́шка (mýška) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Ukrainian: миша́к (myšák) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Urdu: چُوہا (cūhā) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Uyghur: چاشقان (chashqan) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Uzbek: sichqon — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Venetan: ràto — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Venetan: sorze — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Vietnamese: chuột — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Vilamovian: maojs — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Volapük: mug — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Walloon: sori — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Welsh: llygoden — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Welsh: llygod — rodent of the genus Mus
  • West Frisian: mûs — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Wolof: janax ji — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Xhosa: ilifu — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Yaeyama: うぇんちゅ (Wenchu) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Yaghnobi: муш (muš) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Yakut: кутуйах (kutuyaq) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Yámana: wasána — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Yao (Africa): lipuku class 5 — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Yiddish: מויז (moyz) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Yonaguni: うやんとぅ (uyantu) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Yoruba: èkúté — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Yoruba: eliri — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Zazaki: merre (diq) — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Zhuang: nou — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Zulu: igundane — rodent of the genus Mus
  • Bulgarian: плах чове́к (plah čovék) — shy person
  • Czech: myška — shy person
  • Danish: mus — shy person
  • Dutch: muisje — shy person
  • Finnish: hiiri — shy person
  • Finnish: hiirulainen — shy person
  • German: graue Maus — shy person
  • Latvian: pele — shy person
  • Macedonian: глушец (glušec) — shy person
  • Iranian Persian: تَرْسو (tarsô) — shy person
  • Polish: myszka — shy person
  • Polish: cicha myszka — shy person
  • Portuguese: tímido — shy person
  • Russian: мышь (myšʹ) — shy person
  • Russian: мы́шка (mýška) — shy person
  • Scottish Gaelic: coinean — shy person
  • Serbo-Croatian: ми̏ш — shy person
  • Serbo-Croatian: mȉš — shy person
  • Afrikaans: muis — computing: input device
  • Albanian: miush — computing: input device
  • Arabic: فَأْرَة (faʔra) — computing: input device
  • Arabic: مَاوْس (māws) — computing: input device
  • Armenian: մկնիկ (mknik) — computing: input device
  • Azerbaijani: siçan — computing: input device
  • Basque: sagu — computing: input device
  • Belarusian: мы́шка (mýška) — computing: input device
  • Belarusian: мыш (myš) — computing: input device
  • Bengali: মাউস (maus) — computing: input device
  • Bulgarian: ми́шка (míška) — computing: input device
  • Burmese: ကြွက် (krwak) — computing: input device
  • Burmese: မောက်စ် (maukc) — computing: input device
  • Catalan: ratolí — computing: input device
  • Chinese Cantonese: 滑鼠 (waat6 syu2) — computing: input device
  • Chinese Cantonese: 老鼠 (lou5 syu2) — computing: input device
  • Chinese Cantonese: 鼠標 /鼠标 (syu2 biu1) — computing: input device
  • Chinese Cantonese: 踎士 (mau1 si2) — computing: input device
  • Hakka Chinese: 滑鼠 (va̍t-chhú) — computing: input device
  • Chinese: 滑鼠 (ku̍t-chhí, ku̍t-chhú) — computing: input device
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鼠標 /鼠标 (shǔbiāo) — computing: input device
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鼠標器 /鼠标器 (shǔbiāoqì) — computing: input device
  • Chinese Mandarin: 滑鼠 (huáshǔ) — computing: input device
  • Wu Chinese: 鼠標 /鼠标 (5tshy-piau) — computing: input device
  • Czech: myš — computing: input device
  • Danish: mus — computing: input device
  • Danish: computermus — computing: input device
  • Dutch: muis — computing: input device
  • Dutch: computermuis — computing: input device
  • Esperanto: muso — computing: input device
  • Estonian: hiir — computing: input device
  • Finnish: hiiri — computing: input device
  • French: souris — computing: input device
  • Galician: rato — computing: input device
  • Georgian: მაუსი (mausi) — computing: input device
  • German: Maus — computing: input device
  • German: Computermaus — computing: input device
  • German: Rechnermaus — computing: input device
  • Greek: ποντίκι (pontíki) — computing: input device
  • Hebrew: עַכְבָּר (akhbár) — computing: input device
  • Hindi: माउस (māus) — computing: input device
  • Hungarian: egér — computing: input device
  • Icelandic: mús — computing: input device
  • Icelandic: tölvumús — computing: input device
  • Ido: muso — computing: input device
  • Ido: mauso — computing: input device
  • Indonesian: mouse komputer — computing: input device
  • Indonesian: tetikus — computing: input device
  • Irish: luch — computing: input device
  • Irish: luchóg — computing: input device
  • Italian: mouse — computing: input device
  • Italian: topo — computing: input device
  • Italian: topino — computing: input device
  • Italian: topolino — computing: input device
  • Japanese: マウス (mausu) — computing: input device
  • Kazakh: тінтуір (tıntuır) — computing: input device
  • Kazakh: тышқан (tyşqan) — computing: input device
  • Khmer: កូនកណ្ដុរ (koun kɑndol) — computing: input device
  • Khmer: ម៉ៅ (maw) — computing: input device
  • Korean: 마우스 (mauseu) — computing: input device
  • Northern Kurdish: mişk — computing: input device
  • Kven: hiiri — computing: input device
  • Kyrgyz: чычкан (cıckan) — computing: input device
  • Lao: ເມົາສ໌ (maos) — computing: input device
  • Lao: ຊູລີ (sū lī) — computing: input device
  • Latvian: pele — computing: input device
  • Lithuanian: pelė — computing: input device
  • Low German: Computermuus — computing: input device
  • Low German: Muus — computing: input device
  • Low German: Reeknermuus — computing: input device
  • Luxembourgish: Maus — computing: input device
  • Macedonian: глувче (gluvče) — computing: input device
  • Malay: tetikus — computing: input device
  • Malayalam: മൗസ് (mausŭ) — computing: input device
  • Maltese: maws — computing: input device
  • Māori: kiore — computing: input device
  • Marathi: माउस (māus) — computing: input device
  • Mongolian: хулгана (xulgana) — computing: input device
  • Northern Sotho: maose — computing: input device
  • Norwegian Bokmål: mus — computing: input device
  • Norwegian Bokmål: datamus — computing: input device
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: mus — computing: input device
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: datamus — computing: input device
  • Iranian Persian: موشْوارِه (mušvâre) — computing: input device
  • Iranian Persian: مُوْس (mows) — computing: input device
  • Iranian Persian: موش (muš) — computing: input device
  • Iranian Persian: موشی (muši) — computing: input device
  • Iranian Persian: ماوْس (mâvs) — computing: input device
  • Iranian Persian: ماؤُس (mâ'os) — computing: input device
  • Polish: myszka — computing: input device
  • Polish: mysz — computing: input device
  • Polish: mysz komputerowa — computing: input device
  • Portuguese: rato — computing: input device
  • Portuguese: mouse — computing: input device
  • Romanian: maus — computing: input device
  • Romanian: șoricel — computing: input device
  • Russian: мы́шка (mýška) — computing: input device
  • Russian: мышь (myšʹ) — computing: input device
  • Scottish Gaelic: luch — computing: input device
  • Serbo-Croatian: ми̏ш — computing: input device
  • Serbo-Croatian: mȉš — computing: input device
  • Slovak: myš — computing: input device
  • Slovene: miška — computing: input device
  • Lower Sorbian: myška — computing: input device
  • Spanish: ratón — computing: input device
  • Spanish: mouse (maus) — computing: input device
  • Spanish: laucha — computing: input device
  • Swahili: kipanya — computing: input device
  • Swedish: mus — computing: input device
  • Swedish: datormus — computing: input device
  • Tajik: муш (muš) — computing: input device
  • Tajik: мушак (mušak) — computing: input device
  • Tamil: சுட்டி (cuṭṭi) — computing: input device
  • Thai: เมาส์ (máo) — computing: input device
  • Thai: เม้าส์ (máo) — computing: input device
  • Turkish: fare — computing: input device
  • Turkmen: syçan — computing: input device
  • Ukrainian: ми́шка (mýška) — computing: input device
  • Ukrainian: ми́ша (mýša) — computing: input device
  • Urdu: ماؤُس (māus) — computing: input device
  • Uzbek: sichqon — computing: input device
  • Uzbek: sichqoncha — computing: input device
  • Vietnamese: chuột — computing: input device
  • Vietnamese: chuột máy tính — computing: input device
  • Volapük: mugaparat — computing: input device
  • Walloon: sori — computing: input device
  • West Frisian: mûs — computing: input device
  • Yakut: кутуйах (kutuyaq) — computing: input device
  • Yakut: көмпүүтэр кутуйаҕа (kömpüüter kutuyağa) — computing: input device
  • Yiddish: מויז (moyz) — computing: input device
  • Zhuang: aennou — computing: input device
  • Zhuang: sujbyauh — computing: input device
  • Czech: monokl — black eye
  • French: oeil au beurre noir — black eye
  • French: œil au beurre noir — black eye
  • Dutch: muizen — to mouse around
  • Finnish: hiiviskellä — to mouse around
  • Finnish: hiippailla — to mouse around
  • French: fureter — to mouse around
  • German: mausen — to mouse around
  • Luxembourgish: mausen — to mouse around
  • Bulgarian: ловя мишки (lovja miški) — to catch mice
  • Dutch: muizen vangen — to catch mice
  • Finnish: hiirestää — to catch mice
  • Finnish: pyydystää hiiriä — to catch mice
  • French: muloter — to catch mice
  • Galician: murar — to catch mice
  • Galician: ratear — to catch mice
  • German: mausen — to catch mice
  • German: Mäuse fangen — to catch mice
  • Luxembourgish: mausen — to catch mice
  • Middle English: mowsyn — to catch mice
  • Middle English: musen — to catch mice
  • Russian: лови́ть мышей (lovítʹ myšej) — to catch mice
  • Tamil: எலி பிடி (eli piṭi) — to catch mice
  • Volapük: mugön — to catch mice
  • Finnish: muusata — to close the mouth of a hook
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