مشک

مشک • (mušk)

1. mouse
2. rat

• موشک‎ (múšk)

From Middle Persian mwšk' (mušk, “musk”), from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka). Compare Old Armenian մուշկ (mušk), an Iranian borrowing and also English musk.

مشک • (mošk)

1. musk
   • 1259, Saadi Shirazi, Gulistan; also a Persian proverb:
     • ‏مشک آن است که خود ببوید، نه آنکه عطار بگوید.‎‎

       Mošk ân ast ke xod bebuyad, na ânke attâr beguyad.

       [The good] musk is the one which smells by itself, not by the words [compliments] of the perfumer.

• → Arabic: مسك‎ (misk)
  • Andalusian Arabic:
    • → Catalan: almesc
    • → Spanish: almizcle
      • → Tagalog: almiskle
    • → Portuguese: almíscar
  • → Kurdish: misk
  • → Turkish: misk
• → Georgian: მუშკი (mušḳi)
• → Urdu: مشک‎ (mushk)

Compare Kurdish mişk.

مشک • (mošk)

1. (dialectal, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) mouse

From Middle Persian mšk' (mašk, “mussuck, skin bag”), from Old Persian 𐎶𐏁𐎣𐎠 (maškā-, “(inflated cow) skin”), ultimately a Semitic borrowing; compare Proto-Semitic *mašk-.

مشک • (mašk) (plural مشک‌ها‎ (mašk-hâ))

1. waterskin, mussuck

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “¹mašk”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 55

مشک (mošk)

1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) mouse

مشک • (mushk) m

1. musk