musket

English

Muskets and bayonets.

Alternative forms

• musquet

Etymology

French mousquet, itself from Italian moschetto, diminutive of mosca (“fly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mʌskʌt/, /mʌskɪt/

Noun

musket (plural muskets)

1. A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been superseded by the rifle.

   Soldier, soldier, won't you marry me, with your musket, fife and drum.

Translations

firearm

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: mosquet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 滑膛槍 (cmn), 滑膛枪 (cmn) (huátángqiāng), 火槍 (cmn), 火枪 (cmn) (huǒqiāng)

• Czech: mušketa (cs) f
• Danish: musket (da) c
• Esperanto: musketo (eo), muskedo (eo)
• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: musketti (fi)
• French: mousquet (fr) m
• Georgian: მუშკეტი (ka) (mušketi)
• German: Muskete (de) f
• Greek: μουσκέτο (el) (mouskéto) n
• Hungarian: muskéta (hu), moskotér (hu)
• Icelandic: framhlaðningur (is) m
• Ido: musketo (io), fusilo (io)
• Indonesian: bedil sundut (id)

• Italian: moschetto (it) m
• Japanese: マスケット銃 (ja) (masuketto jū)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: мускета (mk) (muskéta) f
• Maori: pū (mi)
• Navajo: beeʼeldǫǫh
• Norwegian: muskett (no) m
• Polish: muszkiet (pl) m
• Portuguese: mosquete (pt)
• Romanian: muschetă‎ (ro) f, (rare) muschet (ro) n
• Russian: мушкет (ru) (muškét) m
• Slovak: mušketa (sk)
• Spanish: mosquete (es) m
• Swedish: musköt (sv) c
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: చిన్న తుపాకి (te) (cinna tupāki)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Derived terms

• musketeer

Related terms

• musketoon

See also

• Musket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Danish

Etymology

From French mousquet (“musket”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /muskɛt/, [muˈsɡ̊ɛd̥]

Noun

musket c (singular definite musketten, plural indefinite musketter)

1. musket

Inflection

    Inflection of musket

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	musket	musketten	musketter	musketterne
genitive	muskets	muskettens	musketters	musketternes

External links

• Musket on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia