مشک

مشک

See also: مسك‎ and م س ك‎

Baluchi

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *múHs, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *múHs, from Proto-Indo-European *múh₂s.

Noun

مشک • (mušk)

1. mouse
2. rat

See also

• موشک‎ (múšk)

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Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian mwšk' (mušk, “musk”), from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka). Compare Old Armenian մուշկ (mušk), Old Georgian მუშკი (mušḳi), Iranian borrowings and also English musk.

Noun

مشک • (mošk)

1. musk
   • 1259, Saadi Shirazi, Gulistan; also a Persian proverb:
     • ‏مشک آن است که خود ببوید، نه آنکه عطار بگوید.‎‎

       Mošk ân ast ke xod bebuyad, na ânke attâr beguyad.

       [The good] musk is the one which smells by itself, not by the words [compliments] of the perfumer.

Descendants

• مشکی‎ (meški)
• مشکین‎ (moškin)

 

Descendants

• → Arabic: مسك‎ (misk), مَسْكَة‎ (maska)
  • Andalusian Arabic: مِسْك‎
    • → Catalan: mesc, almesc
    • → Spanish: almizcle
      • → Tagalog: almiskle
    • → Portuguese: almíscar
  • → Northern Kurdish: misk
  • → Turkish: misk
• → Urdu: مشک‎ (muśk)

Etymology 2

Compare Northern Kurdish mişk.

Noun

مشک • (mošk)

1. (dialectal, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) mouse

Etymology 3

From Middle Persian mšk' (mašk, “mussuck, skin bag”), from Old Persian 𐎶𐏁𐎣𐎠 (maškā-, “(inflated cow) skin”), ultimately Semitic borrowing; compare Proto-Semitic *mašk-.

Noun

مشک • (mašk) (plural مشک‌ها‎ (mašk-hâ))

1. waterskin, mussuck

Descendants

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मशक (maśak)

  Urdu: مشک‎ (maśak)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਮਸ਼ਕ (maśak)

  Shahmukhi: مشک‎ (maśak)

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “¹mašk”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 55

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Southwestern Fars

Noun

مشک (mošk)

1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) mouse

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Urdu

Noun

مشک • (muśk) m (Hindi spelling मुश्क)

1. musk

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Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu مشک‎ (mušk).

Noun

مشک (mušk)

1. musk, a medicine