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)

Central Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məʃk/

Noun

مشک (mişk)

1. mouse

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.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [muʃk]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊʃk]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊʃk]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mʊʃk]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [muʃk]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [moʃkʲ], [meʃkʲ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [muʃk]

Readings
Classical reading?	mušk
Iranian reading?	mošk, mešk
Tajik reading?	mušk

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
  • Gulf Arabic: مسك (misk)
  • → Northern Kurdish: misk
  • → Turkish: misk, mis
• → Urdu: مشک (muśk)

Etymology 2

Compare Northern Kurdish mişk.

Pronunciation

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [moʃkʲ]

Readings
Iranian reading?	mošk

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-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [maʃk]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäʃk]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäʃk]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäʃk]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäʃk]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæʃkʲ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäʃk]

Readings
Classical reading?	mašk
Iranian reading?	mašk
Tajik reading?	mašk

Noun

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

1. waterskin, mussuck

Descendants

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मशक (maśak)

  Urdu: مشک (maśak)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਮਸ਼ਕ (maśak)

  Shahmukhi script: مشک (maśak)

References

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

Southwestern Fars

Noun

مشک (mošk)

1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) mouse

Urdu

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mʊʃk/
• Rhymes: -ʊʃk

Noun

مُشْک • (muśk) m (Hindi spelling मुश्क)

1. musk

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu مشک (mušk).

Noun

مشک (mušk)

1. musk, a medicine