musk

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /mʌsk/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /mɐsk/
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• Northern-England: /mʊsk/
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• rhymes with -ʌsk
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• homophone: MuSK
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• UK: /mʌsk/
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• homophone: musk
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* English (mainly Suffolk): variant of Must, itself as a surname of English origin from Middle English must (“must (fermenting juice)”). * English (mainly Suffolk): alternatively perhaps in some cases from Middle English muske (“musk”). * Americanized form of Dutch Musch, from Middle Dutch mussche (“sparrow”; modern Dutch mus). * Dutch: nickname or metonymic occupational name from muskus (“musk”).

From Middle English muske, borrowed from Old French musc, from Late Latin muscus, from Ancient Greek μόσχος (móskhos), from Middle Persian [script needed] (mwšk' /⁠muʃk⁠/) whence Persian مشک (mošk). Ultimately from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka, “testicle”), the shape of the gland of animals secreting the substance being compared to human testicles, a diminutive of मूष् (mūṣ, “mouse”), the shape of human testicles being compared to mice, from Proto-Indo-European *muh2s (“mouse”). Cognate with mouse.

66 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: muskus — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Arabic: مِسْك (misk) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Armenian: մուշկ (mušk) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Bengali: কস্তুরী (kosturi) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Bulgarian: мускус (muskus) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Catalan: almesc — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Catalan: mesc — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Chinese Cantonese: 麝香 (se6 hoeng1) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Chinese: 麝香 (siā-hiun) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Chinese Mandarin: 麝香 (shèxiāng) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Czech: pižmo — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Danish: musk — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Danish: moskus — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Dutch: muskus — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Esperanto: mosko — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Estonian: muskus — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Finnish: myski — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• French: musc — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• German: Moschus — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• German: Bisam — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Hebrew: מושק (mushk) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Hindi: कस्तूरी (kastūrī) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Hindi: मुश्क (muśk) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Hungarian: pézsma — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Ido: mosko — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Indonesian: kesturi — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Irish: musc — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Italian: muschio — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Japanese: 麝香 (jakō) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Javanese: dhèdhès — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Javanese: kasturi — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Kazakh: жұпар (jūpar) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Korean: 사향 (sahyang) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Latin: muscus — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Macedonian: мошус (mošus) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Macedonian: миск (misk) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Malay: kasturi — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Malayalam: കസ്തൂരി (kastūri) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Mon: ဂဒဵု — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Mongolian: заарь (zaarʹ) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Pali: katthūrikā — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Persian: مشک (mošk) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Polish: piżmo — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Portuguese: almíscar — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Prakrit: 𑀓𑀢𑁆𑀣𑀽𑀭𑀺𑀬𑀸 (katthūriyā) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Prakrit: 𑀓𑀢𑁆𑀣𑀽𑀭𑀻 (katthūrī) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Punjabi: ਕਸਤੂਰੀ (kastūrī) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Romanian: mosc — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Russian: му́скус (múskus) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Sanskrit: कस्तूरी (kastūrī) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Sanskrit: कस्तूरिका (kastūrikā) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Sanskrit: see also Thesaurus:कस्तूरी — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Serbo-Croatian: мо̀шус — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Serbo-Croatian: mošus — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Spanish: almizcle — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Swahili: zabadi — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Swedish: mysk — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Tagalog: almiskle — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Telugu: కస్తూరి (kastūri) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Tibetan: གླ་རྩི་ (gla rtsi) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Turkish: misk — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Ukrainian: му́скус (múskus) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Urdu: مشک (muśk) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Uyghur: ئىپار (ipar) — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Vietnamese: xạ hương — greasy secretion with powerful odour
• Welsh: mwsg — greasy secretion with powerful odour