moose

Etymology 1
Earlier mus, moos, from an language name for the animal, such as, 🇨🇬 or 🇨🇬 (cognate to 🇨🇬), from , referring to how a moose strips tree bark when feeding: compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) The largest member of the deer family (, sometimes included in ), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.
 * We saw a moose at the edge of the woods.
 * 1) Any of the extinct moose-like deer of the genera Cervalces and Libralces.
 * 2)  An ugly person.
 * 1)  An ugly person.

Usage notes

 * The usual plural of is ; compare the names of many animals, such as,  and , which are also invariant.
 * Other plurals are rare and non-standard: (with the usual English plural-forming suffix ) and  (jocularly formed by analogy to  → ).

Translations

 * Abenaki: moz
 * Abkhaz: емонеири
 * Adyghe: бланэ
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: dre brilopatë
 * Algonquin: mòz
 * Arabic: مُوظ
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Atikamekw: mos
 * Azerbaijani: sığın
 * Bashkir: мышы; болан
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: лось
 * Bulgarian: лос
 * Burmese: မုစကောင်
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏫ ᎤᏔᎾ
 * Cheyenne: mahpemo’ehe
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Cree: ᒨᔁ
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, elsdyr
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: alko
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: elgur
 * Finnish:
 * Fox: meshêwêwa, môthwa
 * French: élan d'Amérique ,
 * Galician:, ,
 * Georgian: ლოსი
 * German:
 * Greek:, αμερικανική έλαφος
 * Ancient: ἄλκη
 * Greenlandic: tuttorpak
 * Han: jëjuu
 * Hebrew: צבי אמריקני
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: alce
 * Inuktitut: ᑐᒃᑐᕙᒃ
 * Inupiaq: tuttuvak
 * Irish: mús
 * Italian:
 * Jamtish: dýr
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kabardian:
 * Kazakh: бұғы, бұлан
 * Khmer: មូហ្ស
 * Komi-Permyak: лола
 * Komi-Zyrian: йӧра
 * Korean: 엘크, 무스, 말코손바닥사슴
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latgalian: brīds
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: alnis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Livonian: põddõrz
 * Low German:
 * Macedonian: лос
 * Malay: moose, elk
 * Malecite-Passamaquoddy: mus
 * Manchu: ᡴᠠᠨᡩᠠᡥᠠᠨ
 * Manx: feeaih mooar
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: шордо
 * Western Mari: шарды
 * Massachusett: moos, mws
 * Mi'kmaq: tia'm
 * Middle English: elk
 * Mohegan-Pequot: mos
 * Mon:, ,
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠨᠳᠠᠭᠠᠶ
 * Montagnais: mush
 * Nanai: то̄, бэюн
 * Navajo: deeteel
 * Northern Mansi:, янгуй
 * Northern Sami: ealga
 * Norwegian:
 * Ojibwe: mooz, moonz
 * Old English: eolh
 * Oroqen: bəyun
 * Ottoman Turkish: صیغین
 * Pali: gokaṇṇa
 * Penobscot: mos
 * Persian:, یاله, گاو کوهی
 * Plains Cree: ᒨᔁ, môswa
 * Polish:, łosica, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: lon
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: лос
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: los
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Sami: sarve
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili: elki, kongoni wa Kaskazini
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: alse
 * Tajik: шоҳгавазн
 * Tatar:
 * Thai: ตัวมูซ, มูส, กวางมูส
 * Tlingit: dzískʼw
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: losy
 * Udmurt: койык
 * Ukrainian: лось
 * Unami: mus, pàkakënèt
 * Veps: hirb'
 * Vietnamese: nai anxet, nai sừng tấm
 * Welsh: elc
 * Wiyot: béhlakw
 * Yakut: тайах
 * Yiddish: לאָס, לאָסיכע
 * Yurok: meweehl
 * Zazaki: gayê kohi

Etymology 2
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Noun

 * 1)  An Asian girl taken as a lover.

Noun

 * 1) worm
 * 2) caterpillar

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) mouse