goatskin

English

Etymology

From Middle English geet skin; equivalent to goat +‎ skin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

goatskin (countable and uncountable, plural goatskins)

1. The skin of a goat.
2. A liquid container (especially of wine or water) made from goat leather.
3. (Ireland, colloquial) a bodhran drum.

Hypernyms

• hide, leather, skin

Coordinate terms

• kidskin, lambskin, sheepskin

Related terms

• waterskin
• wineskin

Translations

the skin of a goat

• Macedonian: ше́вро n (šévro), ко́зја ко́жа f (kózja kóža)

a liquid container

• Armenian: տիկ (hy) (tik), տկճոր (hy) (tkčor)
• Finnish: leili (fi)
• French: outre (fr) f
• Galician: odre (gl) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἀσκός m (askós)

• Lithuanian: ožena f
• Russian: бурдю́к (ru) m (burdjúk)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мије̑х m, ме̑х m, мјѐшина f, мѐшина f

  Roman: mijȇh (sh) m, mȇh (sh), mjèšina (sh) f, mèšina (sh) f

• Spanish: odre (es) m, bota (es)

See also

• cordovan
• cordwain
• morocco

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