mouse

mouse

See also: mouše

English

A mouse (rodent).

A computer mouse.

Alternative forms

• mowse (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English mous, from Old English mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s.

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 (Swedish mus, Danish mus, Norwegian mus, Icelandic mús, Faroese 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".

Pronunciation

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /maʊs/

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• (US) enPR: mous, IPA^(key): /maʊs/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /mʌʊs/
• Rhymes: -aʊs

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /maʊs/, /maʊz/
• (US) enPR: mous, mouz, IPA^(key): /maʊs/, /maʊz/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /mʌʊs/, /maʊz/
• Rhymes: -aʊs, -aʊz

Noun

mouse (plural mice)

1. Any small rodent of the genus Mus.
   • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:

     At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.

2. (informal) A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.
3. A quiet or shy person.
4. (computing) (plural mice or, rarely, mouses) 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.
5. (computing) The cursor.

   move the mouse over the icon

6. (boxing) A facial hematoma or black eye.
7. (nautical) 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.
8. (obsolete) A familiar term of endearment.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4:

     Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed, / Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse

9. A match used in firing guns or blasting.
10. (set theory) A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).
11. (historical) A small cushion for a woman's hair.
12. Part of a hind leg of beef, next to the round.

    Synonym: mouse buttock

Hypernyms

• (small rodent): rodent

Hyponyms

• birch mouse (Sicista spp.)
• church mouse
• deer mouse
• dormouse
• field mouse
• harvest mouse
• house mouse (Mus musculus)
• kangaroo mouse (Microdipodops spp.)
• optical mouse

 

Coordinate terms

• (small rodent): rat
• (input device): joystick, trackpad, trackball, pointing stick

Derived terms

Terms derived from mouse (noun)

• dormouse
• fieldmouse
• flying mouse
• left-mouse
• mousable
• mouseable
• mouse-ear
• mousehole
• mouse jiggler
• mouse mat
• mousepad, mouse pad
• mouser
• mousery
• mousetrap
• mousy
• nouse
• reremouse
• right-mouse
• white-footed mouse

 

Related terms

• muss

Related terms containing “mouse”

• (as) quiet as a mouse
• cat and mouse
• mouse button
• mouse click
• mouse mat
• mouse pad
• play cat and mouse
• poor as a church mouse
• quiet as a church mouse
• when the cat's away the mice will play

 

Descendants

Descendants of mouse in other languages

• → Bengali: মাউস (maus)
• → Brazilian Portuguese: mouse
• → French: souris (semantic loan)
• → Georgian: მაუსი (mausi)
• → Italian: mouse
• → Japanese: マウス (mausu)
• → Korean: 마우스 (mauseu)
• → Romanian: mouse
• → Spanish: mouse
• → Thai: เมาส์ (máo), เม้าส์ (máo)
• → Vietnamese: chuột (semantic loan)

Translations

rodent of the genus Mus

Abkhaz: аҳәынаҧ (aḥʷənap) Afrikaans: muis (af) Ainu: エㇾㇺ (erm), エㇾム (ermu), エルㇺ (erum) Albanian: mi (sq) m Amharic: አይጥ (ʾäyṭ) Andi: гьинкӏкӏу (hinkkʼu) Arabic: فَأْرَة‎ f (faʾra), (mouse or rat) فَأْر‎ m (faʾr) Egyptian Arabic: فار‎ (fār) Moroccan Arabic: فار‎ (fār) Aragonese: zorz Armenian: մուկ (hy) (muk) Old Armenian: մուկն (mukn) Aromanian: shoaric Assamese: নিগনি (nigoni) Asturian: ratu (ast) m, ratón (ast) m Atayal: olit (mouse or rat) Avar: гӏункӏкӏ (ʻunkkʼ) Aymara: achaku (ay) Azerbaijani: siçan (az) Balinese: (mouse or rat) bikul, jero ketut Baluchi: مشک‎ (mušk), موشک‎ (múšk) Bashkir: сысҡан (sısqan) Basque: sagu (eu) Belarusian: мыш f (myš), мы́шка f (mýška) Bengali: (mouse or rat) ইঁদুর (bn) (ĩdur) Breton: logodenn (br) f Bulgarian: ми́шка (bg) f (míška), мишо́к m (mišók) (male) Burmese: (mouse or rat) ကြွက် (my) (krwak) Catalan: ratolí (ca) m Chamicuro: kijsili Chechen: дахка (daxka) Cherokee: (mouse or rat) ᏥᏍᏕᏥ (tsisdetsi) Chichewa: mbewa Chickasaw: pinti' Chinese: Cantonese: 老鼠 (lou5 syu2) Dungan: лочў (ločw) Hakka: 老鼠 (lo-chhú, ló-chhú, no-chhú) Literary: 鼠 (shǔ) (mouse or rat), 鼷 (xī) Mandarin: 老鼠 (zh) (lǎoshǔ) (mouse or rat), 鼠 (zh) (shǔ) (mouse or rat), 耗子 (zh) (hàozi) (dialectal, mouse or rat), 小鼠 (zh) (xiǎoshǔ) (technical), 鼷 (zh) (xī) Min Dong: 老鼠 (lō̤-chṳ̄) Min Nan: 鳥鼠 (zh-min-nan) (niáu-chhí, niáu-chhú), 鼠 (zh-min-nan) (chhí, chhú), 錢鼠 (zh-min-nan), 钱鼠 (chîⁿ-chhí, chîⁿ-chhú), 老鼠 (ló͘-chhír, ló͘-chhí, niáu-chhú, niáu-chhí, niáu-chhír) Wu: 老鼠 (lau tshr) Chukchi: пипиӄыԓгын (pipiqyḷgyn) Chuvash: шӑши (šăš̬i) Cornish: logosen f Crimean Tatar: sıçan Czech: myš (cs) f, myšák (cs) m (male) Dalmatian: surco m Danish: mus (da) c Dhivehi: މީދާ‎ (mīdā) Dutch: muis (nl) f Eastern Arrernte: thakwere Egyptian: (pnw) Erzya: чеерь (čejerʹ) Esperanto: muso (eo), (♀) musino, musido, (♀) musidino Estonian: hiir (et) Even: ча̄ма̇кчан (cāmȧkcan) Evenki: сиңэрэкэн Ewe: afi n Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can Faroese: mús (fo) f Finnish: hiiri (fi) French: (mouse or rat) souris (fr) f Friulian: surîs f Galician: rato (gl) m Georgian: თაგვი (ka) (tagvi) German: Maus (de) f Alemannic German: Muus f Greek: ποντίκι (el) n (pontíki), ποντικός (el) m (pontikós) Ancient: μῦς m (mûs), ποντικός m (pontikós) Greenlandic: teriaq Gujarati: ઉંદર (undar) Hausa: ɓera Hawaiian: ʻiole liʻiliʻi Hebrew: עַכְבָּר‎ (he) m (akhbár) Hindi: (mouse or rat) चूहा (hi) m (cūhā) Hungarian: egér (hu) Icelandic: mús (is) f Ido: muso (io) Igbo: ọke Ilocano: bao Inari Sami: säplig Indonesian: (mouse or rat) tikus (id) Interlingua: mus, mure Irish: luch (ga) f, luchóg (ga) f Italian: topo (it) m, sorcio (it) m, ratto (it) m Japanese: (mouse or rat) 鼠 (ja) (ねずみ, nezumi), ネズミ (ja) (nezumi), ハツカネズミ (ja) (hatsukanezumi), マウス (ja) (mausu) Jarai: tơkuih Javanese: tikus (jv) Kalmyk: хулһн (hulğn) Kannada: (mouse or rat) ಇಲಿ (kn) (ili) Kanuri: jilwa Kapampangan: dagis (mouse or rat) Karelian: hiiri Kashubian: mësz f Kazakh: тышқан (kk) (tyşqan) Khmer: កណ្ដុរស្រូវ (kɑndao srəw), កណ្ដុរ (km) (kɑndol) (mouse or rat) Kipchak: Armeno-Kipchak: սըչխան (sïč̣χan) Korean: 생쥐 (ko) (saengjwi), (mouse or rat) 쥐 (ko) (jwi) Kriol: brudbrud Kurdish: Central Kurdish: مشک‎ (ku) (mişk) Northern Kurdish: mişk (ku) Kven: hiiri Kyrgyz: чычкан (ky) (çıçkan) Ladin: please add this translation if you can Lao: (mouse or rat) ໜູ (lo) (nū) Latgalian: pele Latin: (mouse or rat) mūs (la) m or f Latvian: pele (lv) f Lezgi: кьиф (q̇if) Lithuanian: pelė (lt) f, pelėnas m Lombard: ratt (lmo) Low German: German Low German: Muus (nds) f Luganda: emmese Lutshootseed: k'ʷat'ad Luxembourgish: Maus (lb) f Lü: ᦐᦴ (ṅuu) Macedonian: глушец m (glušec), глувче n (gluvče), миш m (miš) (dialectal), глушец m (glušec) Malay: (mouse or rat) tikus (ms), mencit Malayalam: ചുണ്ടെലി (ml) (cuṇṭeli) Maltese: ġurdien m Manchu: ᠰᡳᠩᡤᡝᡵᡳ (singgeri) Manx: lugh m Maori: kiore (mi) Marathi: उंन्दिर (unndir) Mazanderani: گل‎ (gal) Mi'kmaq: apigji'j anim, apugji'j anim Mirandese: rato m Moksha: шеер (šejer) Mongolian: хулгана (mn) (xulgana), оготно (mn) (ogotno) Nahuatl: quimichin (nah) Nanai: сингэрэ Navajo: naʼatsʼǫǫsí Neapolitan: sorece m Nepali: मुसो (ne) (muso) Newar: please add this translation if you can Nivkh: мухтук (muxtuk) Norman: souothis f North Frisian: müs n Northern Sami: sáhpán Northern Thai: ᩉ᩠ᨶᩪ Norwegian: mus (no) f Occitan: mirga (oc) f, fureta f, ratuga (oc) f Ojibwe: waawaabiganoojiinh Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: мꙑшь f (myšĭ) Old East Slavic: мꙑшь f (myšĭ) Old English: mūs Old Prussian: pelē Oriya: ମୂଷା (or) (muṣa) Osage: įchóka Ossetian: мыст (myst) Ottoman Turkish: صیچان‎ (sıçan), (mouse or rat) فأرة‎ (fare), (mouse or rat) فأر‎ (far), (mouse or rat), موش‎ (muş) Pashto: موږک‎ (ps) m (muģák) Persian: (mouse or rat) موش‎ (fa) (muš) Plautdietsch: Mus (nds) f Polish: mysz (pl) f, myszka (pl) f Portuguese: rato (pt) m, (Brazil) camundongo (pt) m Punjabi: ਚੂਹਾ (pa) (cūhā) Quechua: ukuca, ukuş, juk'ucha Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can Romanian: șoarece (ro) m Romansch: mieur Russian: мышь (ru) f (myšʹ), мы́шка (ru) f (mýška) Rwanda-Rundi: umushushwe class 3/4, imbeba class 9/10 (Rwanda), im-beba (Rundi) S'gaw Karen: ယုၢ် (yu̱) Saek: (mouse or rat) หนู่ Samoan: 'isumu, 'iole Sanskrit: मूष् (sa) m or f (mūṣ), आखु (sa) m (ākhu) Sardinian: tope, topi Campidanese: medrona f, topi, sórixi m Scots: moose Scottish Gaelic: luch f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ми̏ш m Roman: mȉš (sh) m Shan: ၼူ (shn) (nǔu) Sicilian: surci (scn) m, sùrici (scn) m Sindhi: ڪوُئو‎ (kūʾō) Sinhalese: මීයා (mīyā) Skolt Sami: sä´ppli Slovak: myš (sk) f Slovene: miš (sl) f Somali: jiir (so) m Sorbian: Upper Sorbian: myš f, myška f Lower Sorbian: myš f, myška Sotho: tweba (st) Spanish: ratón (es) m, mur (es) m Swahili: kipanya Swedish: mus (sv) c Tagalog: (mouse or rat) daga (tl) Tahltan: dlūne Tai Dam: ꪘꪴ Tajik: (mouse or rat) муш (tg) (muš) Talysh: морә (morǝ) Tamil: சுண்டெலி (ta) (cuṇṭeli) Taos: cìyúna Tarantino: topo m Tatar: тычкан (tt) (tıçkan) Telugu: (mouse or rat) ఎలుక (te) (eluka) Thai: (mouse or rat) หนู (th) (nǔu) Tibetan: (mouse or rat) ཙི་ཙི (tsi tsi) Tigrinya: ኣንጭዋ (ʾanč̣əwa) (mouse or rat) Tlingit: kagaák Tok Pisin: liklik rat Tongan: kumā Tswana: pêba Turkish: fare (tr), sıçan (tr) Turkmen: syçan, sıçan Udmurt: шыр (šyr) Ukrainian: ми́ша (uk) f (mýša), миш f (myš), ми́шка f (mýška) Urdu: (mouse or rat) چوہا‎ m (cūhā) Uyghur: چاشقان‎ (chashqan) Uzbek: sichqon (uz) Venetian: ràto, sorze Vietnamese: (mouse or rat) chuột (vi) Vilamovian: maojs Volapük: mug (vo) Walloon: sori (wa) f Welsh: llygoden (cy) f, llygod (cy) pl West Frisian: mûs White Hmong: nas Wolof: janax ji Xhosa: ilifu Yagnobi: муш (muš) Yakut: кутуйах (kutuyax) Yiddish: מויז‎ (moyz) Yoruba: èkúté, eliri Yámana: wasána Zazaki: merre (diq) f Zhuang: (mouse or rat) nou Zulu: igundane (zu) class 5/6

shy person

Bulgarian: плах човек m (plah čovek) Czech: myška f Danish: mus (da) c Dutch: muisje (nl) n Finnish: hiiri (fi), hiirulainen German: (please verify) graue Maus f (plain Jane) Latvian: pele (lv) f Macedonian: глушец m (glušec) Persian: ترسو‎ (fa) (tarsō) Polish: myszka (pl) f, cicha myszka f Portuguese: tímido (pt) m Russian: мышь (ru) f (myšʹ), мы́шка (ru) f (mýška) Scottish Gaelic: coinean m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: миш m Roman: miš (sh) m

computing: input device

Afrikaans: muis (af) Albanian: miush (sq) Arabic: فَأْرَة‎ f (faʾra), مَاوْس‎ m (māws) Armenian: մկնիկ (hy) (mknik) Azerbaijani: siçan (az) Basque: sagu (eu) Belarusian: мы́шка f (mýška), мыш f (myš), мы́шка f (mýška) Bengali: মাউস (bn) (maus) Bulgarian: ми́шка (bg) f (míška) Burmese: ကြွက် (my) (krwak) Catalan: ratolí (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 滑鼠 (waat6 syu2) (Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia), (please verify) 老鼠 (lou5 syu2), 鼠標, 鼠标 (syu2 biu1) (mainland China), mouse (mau1 si2) (Hong Kong) Hakka: 滑鼠 (va̍t-chhú) Mandarin: 鼠標／鼠标 (zh) (shǔbiāo) (mainland China), 鼠標器／鼠标器 (zh) (shǔbiāoqì) (mainland China), 滑鼠 (zh) (huáshǔ) (Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia) Min Nan: 滑鼠 (zh-min-nan) (ku̍t-chhí, ku̍t-chhú) Wu: 鼠標, 鼠标 (tshr piau) Czech: myš (cs) f Danish: mus (da) c, computermus c Dutch: muis (nl) f, computermuis (nl) f Esperanto: muso (eo) Estonian: hiir (et) Finnish: hiiri (fi) French: souris (fr) f Galician: rato (gl) m Georgian: მაუსი (mausi) German: Maus (de) f, Computermaus (de) f, Rechnermaus f Greek: ποντίκι (el) n (pontíki) Hebrew: עַכְבָּר‎ (he) m (akhbár) Hindi: माउस (māus) Hungarian: egér (hu) Icelandic: mús (is), tölvumús (is) Ido: muso (io), mauso Indonesian: mouse komputer, tetikus (id) Irish: luch (ga) f, luchóg (ga) f Italian: ratto (it) m Japanese: マウス (ja) (mausu) Kazakh: тінтуір (kk) (tıntuır), тышқан (kk) (tyşqan) Khmer: កូនកណ្ដុរ (km) (konkândŏr), ម៉ៅ (km) (maw) Korean: 마우스 (ko) (mauseu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: mişk (ku) m Kven: hiiri Kyrgyz: чычкан (ky) (çıçkan) Lao: ເມົາສ໌ (maot), ຊູລີ (sū lī) Latvian: pele (lv) f Lithuanian: pelė (lt) f Low German: German Low German: Computermuus f, Muus (nds) f, Reeknermuus f Luxembourgish: Maus (lb) f Macedonian: глувче n (gluvče) Malay: tetikus Malayalam: മൗസ് (ml) (mausŭ) Maltese: maws Marathi: माउस m (māus) Mongolian: хулгана (mn) (xulgana) Northern Sotho: maose Norwegian: mus (no) m or f, datamus m or f Persian: موشواره‎ (mōšvâra), موس‎ (fa) (mows), موش‎ (fa) (muš) Polish: myszka (pl) f, mysz (pl) f, mysz komputerowa (pl) f Portuguese: (Portugal) rato (pt) m, (Brazil) mouse (pt) m Romanian: maus (ro) n, șoricel (ro) m Russian: мы́шка (ru) f (mýška), мышь (ru) f (myšʹ) Scottish Gaelic: luch f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: миш m Roman: miš (sh) m Slovak: myš (sk) f Slovene: miška (sl) f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: myška f Spanish: ratón (es) m, mouse (es) m (Latin America) Swahili: kipanya Swedish: mus (sv) c, datormus (sv) c Tajik: муш (tg) (muš) Thai: เมาส์ (th) (máo), เม้าส์ (th) (máo) Turkish: fare (tr) Turkmen: syçan Ukrainian: ми́шка f (mýška), ми́ша (uk) f (mýša) Urdu: ماؤس‎ (ma'us) Uzbek: sichqon (uz), sichqoncha (uz) Vietnamese: chuột (vi), chuột máy tính Volapük: mugaparat Walloon: sori (wa) f Yakut: кутуйах (kutuyax), көмпүүтэр кутуйаҕа (kömpüüter kutuyağa) Yiddish: מויז‎ (moyz) Zhuang: aennou, sujbyauh

black eye

Czech: monokl (cs) m

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Albanian: (please verify) miu (sq) Breton: (1,2) (please verify) logodenn (br) f Cebuano: (please verify) ilaga Friulian: (please verify) surîs, (please verify) surie Gallurese: (please verify) sórighe m Interlingua: (please verify) mus, (1) (please verify) mure Latin: (please verify) soricia Maltese: (please verify) ġurdien Occitan: (please verify) mirga (oc) Persian: (please verify) موشی‎ (fa) (muši) Romani: (please verify) xurtso m, (please verify) xurtsaika f Romanian: (please verify) șoarece (ro) Sardinian: (southern) (please verify) medrona f, (please verify) topi, (please verify) sórixi m, (northern) (please verify) sórighe m Sassarese: (please verify) sórighe m Sundanese: (please verify) beurit (su) Welsh: (please verify) llygoden (cy)

Verb

mouse (third-person singular simple present mouses, present participle mousing, simple past and past participle moused)

1. (intransitive) To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).
2. (intransitive) To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. [from 12th c.]
3. (transitive, nautical) To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.

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

4. (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of a computer mouse.
   • 1988, MacUser, Volume 4

     I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.

   • 2009, Daniel Tunkelang, Faceted Search, page 35:

     Unlike the Flamenco work, the Relation Browser allows users to quickly explore a document space using dynamic queries issued by mousing over facet elements in the interface.

5. (obsolete, nonce word, transitive) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:

     [Death] mousing the flesh of men.

Derived terms

terms derived from mouse (verb)

• mouse around
• mouse over
• mouser

Related terms

• muscle
• mussel

Translations

to mouse around

Dutch: muizen (nl) Finnish: hiiviskellä (fi), hiippailla (fi) French: fureter (fr) German: mausen (de) Luxembourgish: mausen

to catch mice

Bulgarian: ловя мишки (lovja miški) Dutch: muizen vangen Finnish: hiirestää, pyydystää hiiriä Galician: murar (gl), ratear (gl) German: mausen (de), Mäuse fangen Luxembourgish: mausen Middle English: mowsyn, musen Russian: лови́ть мышей (lovítʹ myšej) Volapük: mugön (vo)

to close the mouth of a hook

Further reading

• mouse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mouse (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Computer mouse on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Mice on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Mus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• meous, moues

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Chinese

Etymology

From English mouse.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mau¹ si², maau¹ si²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mau¹ si², maau¹ si²
    • Yale: māu sí, māau sí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mau¹ si², maau¹ si²
    • Guangdong Romanization: meo¹ xi², mao¹ xi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/, /maːu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

Noun

mouse

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) mouse (Classifier: 隻／只 c; 個／个 c)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 鼠標 (“computer mouse”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		鼠標器 Mainland China, 滑鼠 Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia
Mandarin	Taiwan	滑鼠
	Malaysia	滑鼠
	Singapore	滑鼠
Cantonese	Hong Kong	滑鼠, mouse
	Taishan (Guanghai)	鼠標
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	滑鼠
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	滑鼠
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	滑鼠
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	滑鼠
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	滑鼠
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	滑鼠
Min Nan	Xiamen	鼠標
	Quanzhou	鼠標
	Zhangzhou	鼠標
	Taipei	滑鼠
	Kaohsiung	滑鼠
	Kinmen	滑鼠

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaws/
• Rhymes: -aws

Noun

mouse m (invariable)

1. (computing, computer hardware) mouse (for a PC)

Derived terms

• tappetino per mouse

Anagrams

• esumo, esumò, museo

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Middle English

Noun

mouse

1. Alternative form of mous

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmaw.zi/, /ˈmawz/

Noun

mouse m (plural mouses)

1. (Brazil, computer hardware) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)

   Synonym: (Portugal) rato

2. (Brazil, loosely) pointer; cursor (moving icon that indicates the position of the mouse)

   Synonyms: ponteiro, cursor

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mouse.

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Romanian

Alternative forms

• maus

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mouse.

Noun

mouse n (plural mouse-uri)

1. (computing) mouse (for a PC)

Declension

Declension of mouse

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) mouse	mouse-ul	(niște) mouse-uri	mouse-urile
genitive/dative	(unui) mouse	mouse-ului	(unor) mouse-uri	mouse-urilor
vocative	mouse-ule		mouse-urilor

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mouse. Doublet of mur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaus/ [ˈmau̯s]
• Rhymes: -aus

Noun

mouse m (plural mouses)

1. (computing, chiefly Latin America) mouse (input device)

   Synonym: ratón

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.