muskrat

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English

Alternative forms

• musk-rat

Etymology

Perhaps so called for its musky odour and because it resembles a rat, or perhaps called by an Algonquian name like the Abenaki moskwas, with the spelling altered under the influence of the English words musk and rat.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmʌskræt/

Noun

muskrat (plural muskrats)

1. A large aquatic rodent; Ondatra zibethica.

Derived terms

• muskrat trap
• muskrat-weed

Synonyms

• musquash
• musk shrew

Translations

rodent

Basque: arratoi musketadun (eu) Belarusian: андатра (be) f. Bosnian: bizamski pacov (bs) m. Breton: razh-musk (br) Bulgarian: мускус (bg) (muskus) Cherokee: ᏎᎳᎩᏍᏆ (chr) (selagisqua) Chinese: Mandarin: 麝鼠 (zh) (shèshǔ) Croatian: mošusni štakor (hr), bizamski štakor (hr) Czech: ondatra (cs) Danish: bisamrotte (da) Dutch: muskusrat (nl) f. Esperanto: ondatro (eo) Estonian: ondatra (et) Faroese: moskusrotta (fo) Finnish: piisami (fi), piisamirotta (fi) French: rat musqué (fr) m. Galician: aguaneira (gl) German: Bisamratte (de) f. Greek: μοσχοπόντικας (el) Hungarian: pézsma (hu) Icelandic: moskusrotta (is), bísamrotta (is) Irish: muscfhrancach (ga) Italian: topo muschiato (it) m. Japanese: マスクラット (ja) (masukuratto) Kannada: ಸುಂಡಿಲಿ (kn)

Korean: 사향쥐 (ko) (sahyangjwi) Latvian: ondatra (lv) Lithuanian: ondatra (li) Lower Sorbian: bizamowy šćurk Luxembourgish: Bisamrat (lb) Macedonian: бизамски стаорец (mk) (bízamski stáorec) m. Maltese: far tal-misk ta’ l-ilma (mt) Navajo: tábąąh mąʼii Norwegian: bisamrotte (no) Polish: piżmak (pl) Portuguese: rato almiscareiro (pt) Romanian: bizam (ro) Romansch: undatra (rm) Russian: ондатра (ru) (ondátra) f. Sardinian: medrona muscada, topi muscau Scots: radan molach Serbian: Cyrillic: бизамски пацов (sr) Roman: bizamski pacov (sr) Slovak: ondatra pižmová (sk) Slovene: pižmovka (sl) f. Spanish: rata almizclera (es) Swedish: bisam (sv) c. Turkish: misk sıçanı (tr) Ukrainian: ондатра (uk) (ondatra) f. Upper Sorbian: pižmo (hsb), pižmowa šćura (hsb), bizamowa myš (hsb) Welsh: mwsglygoden (cy), llygoden fwsg (cy) West Frisian: muskusrôt (fy)