almizcle

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alˈmiθkle/ [alˈmiθ.kle] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /alˈmiskle/ [alˈmis.kle] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -iθkle (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• Rhymes: -iskle (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: al‧miz‧cle

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic المسك (al-mísk), from Arabic مِسْك (misk), from Persian مشک (mošk), from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka, “testicle, scrotum”).

Noun

almizcle m (plural almizcles)

1. musk

Derived terms

• almizclar (verb)
• almizcleño, almizclero (“musky”)

Descendants

• → Tagalog: almiskle

Etymology 2

Verb

almizcle

1. inflection of almizclar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “almizcle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025