muskrat

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• /ˈmʌskɹæt/
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Perhaps so called for its musky odour and because it resembles a rat, or perhaps called by an Algonquian name like the Abenaki moskwas, with the spelling altered under the influence of the English words musk and rat.

93 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Ahtna: dzen — rodent
• Algonquin: wajack — rodent
• Arabic: فَأْرُ المِسْك (faʔru l-misk) — rodent
• Asturian: mur almizcleru — rodent
• Azerbaijani: ondatra — rodent
• Bashkir: ондатра (ondatra) — rodent
• Basque: arratoi musketadun — rodent
• Belarusian: анда́тра (andátra) — rodent
• Breton: razh-musk — rodent
• Bulgarian: ондатра (ondatra) — rodent
• Catalan: rata mesquera — rodent
• Cherokee: ᏎᎳᎩᏍᏆ (selagisqua) — rodent
• Chinese Mandarin: 麝鼠 (shèshǔ) — rodent
• Chipewyan: dzen — rodent
• Czech: ondatra — rodent
• Danish: bisamrotte — rodent
• Dogrib: dzǫ — rodent
• Dutch: muskusrat — rodent
• Erzya: шарапуло (šarapulo) — rodent
• Esperanto: ondatro — rodent
• Estonian: ondatra — rodent
• Faroese: moskusrotta — rodent
• Finnish: piisami — rodent
• French: rat musqué — rodent
• West-Frisian: muskusrôt — rodent
• Galician: aguaneira — rodent
• Georgian: ონდატრა (ondaṭra) — rodent
• German: Bisamratte — rodent
• Greek: μοσχοπόντικας (moschopóntikas) — rodent
• Hungarian: pézsmapocok — rodent
• Icelandic: moskusrotta — rodent
• Icelandic: bísamrotta — rodent
• Ido: moskorato — rodent
• Irish: muscfhrancach — rodent
• Italian: topo muschiato — rodent
• Japanese: マスクラット (masukuratto) — rodent
• Korean: 사향쥐 (sahyangjwi) — rodent
• Latvian: ondatra — rodent
• Lithuanian: ondatra — rodent
• Luxembourgish: Bisamrat — rodent
• Macedonian: бизамски стаорец (bizamski staorec) — rodent
• Maltese: far tal-misk ta’ l-ilma — rodent
• Mi'kmaq: gi'gwesu — rodent
• Munsee: xwáshkwshush — rodent
• Navajo: tooh łéʼétsoh — rodent
• Norwegian: bisamrotte — rodent
• Ojibwe: wazhashk — rodent
• Polish: piżmak — rodent
• Portuguese: ondatra — rodent
• Powhatan: ossaskoēss — rodent
• Powhatan: mossaskoēss — rodent
• Powhatan: sasskoweis — rodent
• Romanian: bizam — rodent
• Romansh: undatra — rodent
• Russian: онда́тра (ondátra) — rodent
• Saanich: SKEȽKEȽ — rodent
• Sardinian: medrona muscada — rodent
• Sardinian: topi muscau — rodent
• Serbo-Croatian: бизамски пацов — rodent
• Serbo-Croatian: bizamski pacov — rodent
• Serbo-Croatian: mošusni štakor — rodent
• Serbo-Croatian: bizamski štakor — rodent
• Slovak: ondatra pižmová — rodent
• Slovene: pižmovka — rodent
• Lower Sorbian: bizamowy šćurk — rodent
• Upper Sorbian: pižmo — rodent
• Upper Sorbian: pižmowa šćura — rodent
• Upper Sorbian: bizamowa myš — rodent
• Spanish: rata almizclera — rodent
• Spanish: rata almizclada — rodent
• Spanish: rata almizcleña — rodent
• Swedish: bisam — rodent
• Swedish: bisamråtta — rodent
• Tanacross: dzenh — rodent
• Lower Tanana: dzenh — rodent
• Tlingit: tsín — rodent
• Turkish: misk sıçanı — rodent
• Udmurt: вукомак (vukomak) — rodent
• Ukrainian: онда́тра (ondátra) — rodent
• Uyghur: ئىپارچاشقان (iparchashqan) — rodent
• Vietnamese: chuột xạ hương — rodent
• Welsh: mwsglygoden — rodent
• Welsh: llygoden fwsg — rodent
• Yiddish: פּיזעם (pizem) — rodent
• Czech: bělozubka hnědá — Suncus murinus
• Finnish: kyläpäästäinen — Suncus murinus
• German: Moschusspitzmaus — Suncus murinus
• Hindi: छछुंदर (chachundar) — Suncus murinus
• Kannada: ಸುಂಡಿಲಿ (suṇḍili) — Suncus murinus
• Russian: гига́нтская белозу́бка (gigántskaja belozúbka) — Suncus murinus
• Russian: бу́рая му́скусная землеро́йка (búraja múskusnaja zemlerójka) — Suncus murinus
• Russian: домова́я многозу́бка (domovája mnogozúbka) — Suncus murinus
• Tamil: மூஞ்சூறு (mūñcūṟu) — Suncus murinus