goatskin

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡoʊtˌskɪn/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

goatskin (countable and uncountable, plural goatskins)

1. The skin of a goat, especially when cured and used as a material for clothing, tents, etc.

   Hypernyms: skin, hide; leather

   Coordinate terms: sheepskin, lambskin

   Near-synonym: kidskin

   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 77:

     The Arabs came out of their goatskin tents, and surrounded the soldiers, asking many questions in the native tongue, for the soldiers were themselves natives.

2. A liquid container (especially for holding wine or water) made from goat leather.
3. (Ireland, colloquial) A bodhran drum.

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, údremo (gl) m, foleco (gl) m, pelexo (gl) m, fol (gl) m, bocho (gl) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἀσκός m (askós)

• Lithuanian: ožena f
• Italian: otre (it) m
• Ottoman Turkish: طولوم (tulum), قربه (kırba), مطره (matara)
• 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

• Romanian: burduf (ro) n
• Spanish: odre (es) m, bota (es)

See also

• cordovan
• cordwain
• morocco

Anagrams

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