nutmeg

English

A whole nutmeg

A nutmeg plant

Etymology

From Middle English notemege, notemuge, a partial translation of Medieval Latin nux muga, a variant of Medieval Latin nux muscata (“musky nut”). Compare also Old French nois mugede.

For the term used in various ball sports, see Wikipedia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnʌt.mɛɡ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

nutmeg (countable and uncountable, plural nutmegs)

1. An evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans) cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds.
2. The aromatic seed of this tree, used as a spice.
   1. (uncountable) The powdered seed, ready for use.
   2. (countable) A whole nutmeg seed.
3. A small moth, Hadula trifolii, feeding on plants and native to the Northern Hemisphere.
4. A grey-brown colour.
5. (soccer, field hockey or ice hockey, basketball) The playing of the ball between the legs of an opponent.
   • 2017 November 10, Daniel Taylor, “Youthful England earn draw with Germany but Lingard rues late miss”, in The Guardian (London)‎^[1]:

     The same applied to Loftus-Cheek, who grew into the game after a quiet start and even had the impudence to slip the ball through Marcel Halstenberg’s legs in the first half. Nutmegs aside, Loftus-Cheek also came up with one of England’s best passes of the night, sending Jamie Vardy through the middle at the end of the first half.

Derived terms

• African nutmeg
• calabash nutmeg
• catabash nutmeg
• Japanese nutmeg
• Nutmegger
• nutmeg geranium
• nutmeggy
• nutmeg liver
• nutmeg mannikin
• nutmeg melon
• nutmeg pigeon
• nutmeg pippin
• nutmeg psychosis
• nutmeg yew
• plume nutmeg
• wooden nutmeg

 

Descendants

• → Irish: noitmig
• → Japanese: ナツメグ (natsumegu)
• → Maori: natimeke

Translations

tree

• Armenian: մշկընկույզ (hy) (mškənkuyz)
• Bulgarian: муска́тово о́рехче n (muskátovo órehče), инди́йско о́рехче n (indíjsko órehče), муска́т m (muskát), муска́тово дърво́ n (muskátovo dǎrvó)
• Burmese: ဇာတိပ္ဖိုလ် (my) (jatiphpuil)
• Czech: muškátovník m, macizeň pravá f
• Dutch: muskaatboom
• Finnish: muskottipuu (fi)
• French: muscadier (fr) m
• German: Muskatnussbaum m, Muskatbaum m
• Gondi: please add this translation if you can
• Greek: μοσχοκαρυδιά (el) f (moschokarydiá)
• Hawaiian: hua ʻala
• Hebrew: מוסקט m (muscat)
• Hindi: जायफल (hi) m (jāyphal)
• Hungarian: szerecsendiófa (hu)
• Ido: muskadiero (io)
• Indonesian: pala (id)
• Kalmyk: зать (zatʹ)
• Kannada: ಜಾಪತ್ರೆ (jāpatre)
• Macedonian: му́скатов о́рев m (múskatov órev), мо́рски о́рев m (mórski órev), му́скатно о́ревче n (múskatno órevče)
• Malay: pala (ms)
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Nihali: please add this translation if you can
• Odia: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: muszkatowiec (pl) m, muszkatołowiec (pl) m, muszkat (pl) m
• Portuguese: noz-moscada f
• Romanian: nucșor (ro) m
• Russian: муска́тный оре́х (ru) m (muskátnyj oréx), муска́т (ru) m (muskát), муска́тник (ru) m (muskátnik)
• Santali: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian: muškatni oraščić m, muškat (sh) m, muškatni orah m, muškatnica f, muškatno drvo n
• Sicilian: nuci muscata f
• Sinhalese: සාදික්කා (si) (sādikkā)
• Slovene: muškatni orešček (sl) m, muškatni orešek m, muškatno drevo n, muškatovec m, muškat (sl) m
• Swahili: mkungumanga
• Swedish: muskot (sv) c, muskotträd n
• Tagalog: moskada
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: Hint cevizi, muskat
• Ukrainian: муска́тний горі́х m (muskátnyj horíx), муска́т m (muskát), муска́тник m (muskátnyk)
• Welsh: nytmeg m, nytmegs m pl
• Yiddish: מושקאַט f (mushkat), מוסקאַטבוים (muskatboym), מושקעטבוים (mushketboym)

spice

• Arabic: جَوْزَةْ اَلطِّيب f (jawzat aṭ-ṭīb)

  Egyptian Arabic: جوزة الطيب f (guzt eṭ-ṭīb)

  Hijazi Arabic: جوزة الطِّيب f (jōzat aṭ-ṭīb)

• Armenian: մշկընկույզ (hy) (mškənkuyz)
• Azerbaijani: cövüz
• Brunei Malay: buah pala
• Bulgarian: муска́тово о́рехче n (muskátovo órehče), инди́йско о́рехче n (indíjsko órehče), муска́т m (muskát)
• Burmese: ဇာတိပ္ဖိုလ်စေ့ (jatiphpuilce.)
• Catalan: nou moscada f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肉豆蔻 (zh) (ròudòukòu)

• Crimean Tatar: miskat cevizi
• Czech: muškát (cs) m, muškátový ořech m
• Danish: muskat (da), muskatnød (da)
• Dhivehi: ތަކޫވައް (takūvak̊)
• Dutch: muskaat (nl) m, muskaatnoot f, nootmuskaat (nl) m
• Esperanto: muskato
• Finnish: muskotti (fi), muskottipähkinä (fi)
• French: noix de muscade (fr) f, noix muscade (fr) f
• Georgian: მუსკატი (musḳaṭi), ჯავზი (ǯavzi)
• German: Muskat (de) m, Muskatnuss (de) f
• Gondi: please add this translation if you can
• Greek: μοσχοκάρυδο (el) n (moschokárydo)

  Ancient: κώμακον n (kṓmakon), μοσχοκάρυον n (moskhokáruon), μοσχοκαρύδιον n (moskhokarúdion)

• Gujarati: જાયફળ (jāyaphaḷ)
• Hawaiian: hua ʻala
• Hindi: जायफल (hi) (jāyphal)
• Hungarian: szerecsendió (hu)
• Icelandic: múskat n
• Ido: muskado (io)
• Indonesian: pala (id)
• Irish: noitmig f
• Italian: noce moscata (it) f
• Japanese: ナツメグ (natsumegu)
• Kalmyk: зать (zatʹ)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: ឡាវហាវ (km) (laawhaaw)
• Luxembourgish: Muskot m
• Macedonian: му́скат m (múskat), мо́рско о́ревче n (mórsko órevče), му́скатно о́ревче n (múskatno órevče)
• Malay: buah pala
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: natimeke
• Marathi: जायफळ n (j̈āyphaḷ)
• Nihali: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: muscade f (Jersey)
• Norwegian: muskatnøtt

  Bokmål: muskat (no) m

  Nynorsk: muskat m

• Odia: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: جوز هندی (fa) (jowz-e hendi)
• Plautdietsch: Mauskelnät f
• Polish: gałka muszkatołowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: noz-moscada f
• Romanian: nucșoară (ro) f
• Russian: муска́тный оре́х (ru) m (muskátnyj oréx), муска́т (ru) m (muskát)
• Sanskrit: जाति (sa) f (jāti), फल (sa) n (phala), जातिफल (sa) (jātiphala), जातीफल (sa) (jātīphala)
• Santali: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian: muškatni oraščić m, muškat (sh) m, muškatni orah m
• Sicilian: nuci muscata f
• Slovene: muškatni orešček (sl) m, muškatni orešek m, muškat (sl) m
• Spanish: nuez moscada f
• Swahili: kungumanga (sw)
• Swedish: muskot (sv) c, muskotnöt c
• Tagalog: moskada
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Ternate: gosora
• Thai: จันทน์เทศ (jan-têet)
• Tibetan: ཛ་ཏི (dza ti)
• Turkish: muskat
• Ukrainian: муска́тний горі́х m (muskátnyj horíx), муска́т m (muskát)
• Vietnamese: hạt nhục đậu khấu
• Yiddish: מושקעט (mushket), מוסקאַט (muskat), מושקאַט (mushkat)

soccer/football sense

• Arabic: جِسْرٌ صَغِير m (jisrun ṣaḡīr)
• Catalan: túnel (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 穿裆 (chuāndāng)

• Czech: jesle (cs) pl, housle (cs), (slang) gajdy (cs)
• Danish: tunnel (da) c
• Dutch: panna (nl) m
• Finnish: syöttö jalkojen välistä, tunneli (fi)
• French: petit pont (fr) m
• German: Tunnel (de) m, Beinschuss (de) m
• Greek: ποδιά (el) f (podiá)
• Hungarian: kötény (hu), alagútcsel, bőr (hu) (slang)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tunnel (no) m

• Polish: siatka (pl) f, rybka (pl) f
• Portuguese: túnel (pt) m, cueca (pt) f (Portugal), caneta (pt) f (Brazil)
• Sicilian: tunnel m
• Spanish: caño (es), túnel (es) m
• Swedish: tunnel (sv) c
• Turkish: beşik (tr)

Verb

nutmeg (third-person singular simple present nutmegs, present participle nutmegging, simple past and past participle nutmegged)

1. (transitive) To flavour with nutmeg.

   She decided the eggnog was lacking in flavor, so she decided to nutmeg it heavily.

2. (sports, transitive) To play the ball between the legs of (an opponent).
   • 2015 February 24, Daniel Taylor, “Luis Suárez strikes twice as Barcelona teach Manchester City a lesson”, in The Guardian (London)‎^[2]:

     Barcelona did not just out play them, they emphatically put them in their place during that opening 45 minutes when Luis Suárez scored twice, Dani Alves struck the crossbar, Lionel Messi nutmegged David Silva and Manuel Pellegrini’s team stumbled to the interval like a side in need of smelling salts rather than half-time oranges.

Derived terms

• nutmegger

Translations

to flavour

• Finnish: maustaa muskotilla
• French: muscader (fr)

(soccer) to play the ball between the legs of an opponent

• Dutch: poorten (nl)
• Finnish: syöttää jalkojen välistä
• French: faire un petit pont
• German: tunneln (de)
• Icelandic: klobba
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slå tunnel på

• Polish: zakładać siatkę impf, założyć siatkę pf
• Swedish: tunnla (sv)
• Turkish: beşik atmak

See also

• myristic
• mace (spice)