موش
See also: موس
Khowar
Etymology
From Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya).
Noun
موش (moš)
- man, husband
- جم موش نو چنگیر
- jam moš na cangir
- A good man doesn't lie
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian موش (muš, “mouse”).
Noun
موش • (muş)
- mouse, any small rodent of the genus Mus
- Synonyms: صیچان (sıçan), فار (far)
- rat, a medium-sized rodent of the genus Rattus
- (in general) rodent, a mammal of the order Rodentia
- Synonym: كمریجی (kemirici)
Derived terms
- موش خرما (muş-i hurma, “polecat”)
- موش دشتی (muş-i deşti, “harvest mouse”)
- موش دوپا (muş-i düpa, “jerboa”)
- موش سلطانیه (muş-i sultaniye, “dormouse”)
- موشك (muşek, “little mouse”)
- موش كور (muş-i kur, “mole”)
- موش پرنده (muş-i perende, “bat”)
Descendants
- Turkish: muş
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “muş3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3319
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “موش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1246
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Mus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1107
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “موش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5025
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “موش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2032
Persian
موش
Etymology
From Middle Persian [Term?], from Proto-Iranian *múHs, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *múHs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s. Cognate with English mouse.
Pronunciation
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Noun
| Dari | موش |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | муш (muš) |
موش • (muš) (plural موشها (muš-hâ))
- mouse
- rat
Derived terms
- تلهموش (taleh-muš)
- موشی (muši)