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• myo͞oʹzĭk
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmjuːzɪk/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈmjʉwzɪk/
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• General-American: /ˈmju.zɪk/
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• Australian: /ˈmjʉːzɪk/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈmjʉːzək/
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• Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /ˈmjʉ.zɪk/
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• Wales: /ˈmɪʊ.zɪk/
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• rhymes with -uːzɪk
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• CMU ARPABET: M Y UW1 Z IH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English musik, musike, borrowed from Anglo-Norman musik, musike, Old French musique, and their source Latin mūsica, from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ), from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”), an Ancient Greek deity of the arts. By surface analysis, muse + -ic (“pertaining to”). In this sense, displaced native Old English drēam (“music”), whence Modern English dream. Fully displaced Old English sweġl.

314 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: амузика (amuzikʼa) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Acehnese: musik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Afrikaans: musiek — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Albanian: muzikë — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Albanian: mëzikë — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Southern Altai: музыка (muzïka) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Southern Altai: кӱӱ (küü) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Amharic: ሙዚቃ (muziḳa) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Antillean Creole: mizik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Arabic: مُوسِيقَى f or مُوسِيقَا (mūsīqā) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Arabic: طَرَب (ṭarab) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Arabic: مزّيكا (mazzīka) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Arabic: موسيقى (musīga) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Aragonese: musica — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Aragonese: mosica — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Aramaic: ܙܡܪܐ (zmārā) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Armenian: երաժշտություն (eražštutʻyun) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Aromanian: muzicã — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Assamese: সংগীত (xoṅgit) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Asturian: música — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Azerbaijani: musiqi — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Balinese: musik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Bashkir: музыка (muzıka) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Basque: musika — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Belarusian: му́зыка (múzyka) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Bengali: সঙ্গীত (śoṅgit) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Bengali: গান (gan) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Breton: sonerezh — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Bulgarian: му́зика (múzika) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Burmese: ဂီတ (gita.) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Buryat: хүгжэм (xügžem) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Carpathian Rusyn: музика (muzyka) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Catalan: música — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Old Catalan: musica — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Chechen: музыка (muzyka) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Chechen: эшар (ešar) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Cherokee: ᏗᎧᏃᎩᏛ (dikanogidv) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Chinese Cantonese: 音樂 /音乐 (jam1 ngok6) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Chinese: йинйүә (yinyüə) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Eastern Min Chinese: 音樂 /音乐 (ĭng-ngŏk) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Hakka Chinese: 音樂 /音乐 (yîm-ngo̍k) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Chinese: 音樂 /音乐 (im-ga̍k) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Chinese Mandarin: 音樂 /音乐 (yīnyuè) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Wu Chinese: 音樂 /音乐 — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Chuvash: кӗвӗ (kĕvĕ) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Chuvash: мусӑк (mus̬ăk) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Coptic: ⲟⲩⲗⲗⲉ (oulle) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Cornish: musik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Cornish: ilow — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Corsican: musica — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Czech: hudba — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Czech: muzika — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Danish: musik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Dhivehi: މިއުޒިކް (miuzik̊) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Dutch: muziek — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Elfdalian: musik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Erzya: музыка (muzïka) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Erzya: седямо (seďamo) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Esperanto: muziko — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Estonian: muusika — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Farefare: yʋʋmʋm — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Faroese: tónleikur — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Finnish: musiikki — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• French: musique — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Middle French: musique — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Old French: musique — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Old French: musike — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• West-Frisian: muzyk — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Friulian: musiche — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Galician: música — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Georgian: მუსიკა (musiḳa) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• German: Musikstück — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• German: Musik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• German: Musik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• German: Tonkunst — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Bavarian German: Musi — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Greek: μουσική (mousikí) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Ancient Greek: μουσική (mousikḗ) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Greenlandic: nipilersorneq — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Gujarati: સંગીત (saṅgīt) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Haitian Creole: mizik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Hawaiian: mele — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Hawaiian: pila hoʻokani — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Hebrew: מוּזִיקָה (múzika) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Hiligaynon: musika — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Hindi: संगीत (saṅgīt) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Hindi: मूसीक़ी (mūsīqī) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Hungarian: zene — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Hungarian: muzsika — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Icelandic: tónlist — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Icelandic: hljómlist — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Icelandic: músík — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Ido: muziko — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Indonesian: musik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Ingrian: muuzьkka — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Irish: ceol — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Old Irish: ceól — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Italian: musica — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Japanese: 音楽 (ongaku) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Japanese: ミュージック (myūjikku) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Javanese: musik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Kabuverdianu: múzika — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Kalmyk: көгҗм (kögjm) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Kannada: ಸಂಗೀತ (saṅgīta) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Kashmiri: موسیٖقی (mōsīqī) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Kashubian: mùzyka — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Kazakh: музыка (muzyka) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Kazakh: саз (saz) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Khmer: ភ្លេង (phleing) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Khmer: តន្ត្រី (dɑɑntrəy) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Kituba: miziki — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Korean: 음악 (eumak) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Central Kurdish: موسیقی (musîqî) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Central Kurdish: موسیقا (musîqa) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Central Kurdish: مووزیک (mûzîk) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Northern Kurdish: muzîk — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Kyrgyz: музыка (muzıka) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Ladino: muzika — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Ladino: מוזיקה — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Lao: ດົນຕີ (don tī) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Lao: ເພງ (phēng) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Latin: mūsica — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Latin: mūsicē — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Latvian: mūzika — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Ligurian: mûxica — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Lingala: miziki — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Lithuanian: muzika — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Lombard: musica — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Louisiana Creole: mizik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Low German: Musik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Luxembourgish: Musek — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Macedonian: музика (muzika) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Maguindanao: gunigunien — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Malay: muzik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Malay: gita — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Malay: bunyi-bunyian — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Malayalam: സംഗീതം (saṅgītaṁ) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Maltese: mużika — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Manchu: ᡴᡠᠮᡠᠨ (kumun) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Manx: bingys — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Manx: kiaull — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Maranao: bonibonian — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Marathi: संगीत (saṅgīt) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Mauritian Creole: lamizik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Middle English: musike — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Middle English: drem — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Middle English: song — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Minangkabau: musik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Chayuco Mixtec: mazica — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Mizo: rimawi — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Mòcheno: musik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Mongolian: хөгжим (xögžim) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠭᠵᠢᠮ (kögǰim) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Mwani: ngoma — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Nahuatl: tlatzotzontli — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Neapolitan: museca — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Nepali: संगीत (saṅgīt) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Norman: musique — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Norman: mûsique — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Norwegian Bokmål: musikk — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Occitan: musica — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Old Occitan: muzica — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Odia: ସଂଗୀତ (saṅgita) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Okinawan: 音楽 (ungaku) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Old English: drēam — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Old Galician-Portuguese: musica — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Ossetian: музыкӕ (muzykæ) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Pannonian Rusyn: музика (muzika) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Pashto: موسيقي (musiqi) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Persian: مُوسِیقِی (mūsīqī) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Dari: مُوسِیقِی (mūsīqī) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Iranian Persian: موسیقی (musiġi) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Iranian Persian: موزیک (muzik) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Picard: musique — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Piedmontese: mùsica — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Polish: muzyka — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Polish: gędźba — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Old Polish: gędźba — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Portuguese: música — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Punjabi: ਸੰਗੀਤ (saṅgīt) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Punjabi: موسیقی (moseqī) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Réunion Creole French: mizik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Rohingya: gan — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Rohingya: tal — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Romagnol: mùșica — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Romanian: muzică — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Romansh: musica — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Russian: му́зыка (múzyka) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Northern Sami: musihkka — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Sanskrit: सङ्गीत (saṅgīta) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Sardinian: mùsica — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Sardinian: mùsiga — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Scots: muisic — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Scottish Gaelic: ceòl — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Serbo-Croatian: му̀зика — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Serbo-Croatian: гла̀зба — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Serbo-Croatian: mùzika — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Serbo-Croatian: glàzba — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Shan: ၵႂၢမ်းႁႆႇ (kwáam hài) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Sicilian: mùsica — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Sindhi: ميوزڪ (meozk) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Sinhalese: සංගීතය (saṁgītaya) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Slovak: hudba — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Slovak: muzika — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Slovene: glasba — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Lower Sorbian: muzika — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Upper Sorbian: hudźba — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Sotho: mmino — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Spanish: música — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Old Spanish: musica — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Sranan Tongo: poku — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Swahili: muziki — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Swedish: musik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Tagalog: musika — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Tagalog: palalinigan — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Tajik: мусиқӣ (musiqi) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Tamil: சங்கீதம் (caṅkītam) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Tamil: இசை (icai) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Tatar: музыка (muzıqa) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Telugu: సంగీతము (saṅgītamu) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Thai: ดนตรี (don-dtrii) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Thai: เพลง (pleeng) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Tibetan: རོལ་གཞས (rol gzhas) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Tibetan: རོལ་དབྱངས (rol dbyangs) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Tibetan: རོལ་མོ (rol mo) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Tigrinya: ሙዚቃ (muziḳa) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Tofa: һобус — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Tongan: musika — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Turkish: müzik — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Turkish: ezgi — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Turkish: musiki — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Ottoman Turkish: موسیقی (musiki) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Ottoman Turkish: رامش (râmiş) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Turkmen: saz — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Tuvan: хөгжүм (xögjüm) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Tuvan: музыка (muzıka) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Tuvan: аялга (ayalga) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Ukrainian: му́зика (múzyka) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Urdu: سَن٘گِیت (saṅgīt) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Urdu: مُوسِیقِی (mūsīqī) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Uyghur: مۇزىكا (muzika) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Uzbek: musiqa — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Uzbek: muzika — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Venetan: mùxega — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Vietnamese: âm nhạc — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Volapük: musig — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Walloon: muzike — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Welsh: cerddoriaeth — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Welsh: miwsig — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• West Flemish: muziek — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Yakut: музыка (muzïka) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Yakut: муусука (muusuka) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Yiddish: מוזיק (muzik) — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Yoruba: orin — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Yucatec Maya: paax — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Zhuang: yinhyoz — sound, organized in time in a melodious way
• Armenian: երաժշտություն (eražštutʻyun) — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Bengali: গান (gan) — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Bengali: সুর (śur) — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Catalan: música — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Czech: hudba — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Danish: musik — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Dutch: muziek — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Estonian: muusika — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Finnish: musiikki — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• West-Frisian: muzyk — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• German: Musik — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Greek: μουσική (mousikí) — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Hungarian: zene — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Hungarian: muzsika — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Irish: ceol — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Japanese: 音楽 (ongaku) — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Korean: 음악 (eumak) — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Macedonian: му́зика (múzika) — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Norwegian Bokmål: musikk — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Portuguese: música — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Romanian: muzică — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Romanian: melodie — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Russian: му́зыка (múzyka) — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Scottish Gaelic: ceòl — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Slovene: glasba — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Spanish: música — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Swahili: muziki — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Swedish: musik — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Telugu: మృదుధ్వని (mr̥dudhvani) — any pleasing or interesting sounds
• Bulgarian: но́ти (nóti) — sheet music
• Chinese Mandarin: 樂譜 /乐谱 (yuèpǔ) — sheet music
• Czech: notace — sheet music
• Czech: partitura — sheet music
• Danish: noder — sheet music
• Dutch: bladmuziek — sheet music
• Dutch: partituur — sheet music
• Estonian: noodipaber — sheet music
• Finnish: nuotit — sheet music
• French: partition — sheet music
• German: Noten — sheet music
• Greek: παρτιτούρα (partitoúra) — sheet music
• Greek: νότες (nótes) — sheet music
• Hungarian: kotta — sheet music
• Italian: spartito — sheet music
• Italian: partitura — sheet music
• Japanese: 楽譜 (gakufu) — sheet music
• Korean: 악보 (akbo) — sheet music
• Macedonian: ноти (noti) — sheet music
• Macedonian: партиту́ра (partitúra) — sheet music
• Norwegian Bokmål: noter — sheet music
• Portuguese: partitura — sheet music
• Romanian: partitură — sheet music
• Russian: но́ты (nóty) — sheet music
• Russian: партиту́ра fc (partitúra) — sheet music
• Scottish Gaelic: ceòl — sheet music
• Slovak: noty — sheet music
• Slovak: hudobnina — sheet music
• Spanish: música — sheet music