moustache

Etymology
Used in English since the 16th century. Via from, from , from , diminutive of (Doric) , of unknown origin (probably a  substrate). Replaced native, from.

Noun

 * 1) A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.
 * 2)  A curly bracket,  or.
 * 1)  A curly bracket,  or.
 * 1)  A curly bracket,  or.
 * 1)  A curly bracket,  or.
 * 1)  A curly bracket,  or.
 * 1)  A curly bracket,  or.
 * 1)  A curly bracket,  or.

Usage notes
The plural forms and, while formerly popular equivalents for the facial hair on a man's upper lip, are now archaic, with the singular preferred.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аԥаҵа
 * Adyghe: пакӏэхэр
 * Afrikaans: snor
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: شَارِب
 * Egyptian Arabic: شنب
 * Hijazi Arabic: شَنَب
 * Moroccan Arabic: شلغوم
 * Aragonese: mostaixa
 * Aramaic: ܦܣܡܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: mustatsã
 * Asturian:
 * Avar: михъал
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Banjarese: sasingut
 * Bashkir: мыйыҡ
 * Basque: bibote
 * Bau Bidayuh: sumiet
 * Belarusian: вусы́
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Brunei Malay: sumit, kumis
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: һахал
 * Catalan: ,
 * Central Melanau: sumih, gumei
 * Chechen: мекхаш, мекхаш
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 鬚
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Chuvash: мӑйӑх
 * Cornish: minvlew
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, liphararo
 * Estonian: vurrud, vuntsid
 * Faroese: yvirskegg
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:, bigode, mostacho, grañón
 * Georgian:, ულვაშები
 * German:, , , , Schnäuzer
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μύσταξ, ὑπήνη
 * Guaraní: vigóte
 * Gujarati:
 * Haitian Creole: moustach
 * Hawaiian: ʻumiʻumi
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, मूछ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Schnorres
 * Icelandic: yfirvaraskegg, yfirskegg,
 * Ido: mustacho,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Isthmus Zapotec: guicha ruaa
 * Italian:, mostaccio
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:
 * Jeju: 쉬염, 시염
 * Kabardian:
 * Kazakh: мұрт
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lak: ссирссилтту
 * Lao: ມັດສຸ
 * Latin: mystax, mustāceus, subium
 * Latvian:
 * Laz: ბუჲუღი
 * Lezgi: спел
 * Lithuanian: ūsai
 * Lombard:
 * Macedonian: мустаќ, мустаќи
 * Malay:, kumis
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: mustaċċi
 * Maori: hurungutu
 * Marathi: मिशी
 * Mon: သော်ပါင်
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Navajo: dághá
 * Nepali: जुँगा, जुंगा
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, barter, mustasje
 * Nynorsk: bart, bartar, mustasje
 * Occitan:
 * Odia: ମୁଛ
 * Old English: cenep
 * Ossetian: рихитӕ
 * Ottoman Turkish: بیق, سبله
 * Pali:
 * Mon:
 * Pashto:
 * Pennsylvania German: Schnarrbaart, Schnauzbaart, Schnurbaart
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Schnurboat
 * Polish:
 * Pontic Greek: μουστάκιν
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਮੁੱਛ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sami:
 * Inari Sami: njävileh
 * Kildin Sami: оа̄б
 * Skolt Sami: ääʹbben
 * Ter Sami: а̄бн
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian:
 * Campidanese: mustatzus
 * Logudorese: mustatzus
 * Scots: mouser, moutash
 * Scottish Gaelic: mustais, stais, balt, feusag-bheòil, ròibeag, réibean, ròibean, caisean-feusaig
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бр̑к, бр̏кови, наусница
 * Roman:, ,
 * Sicilian:, , baffi
 * Sindhi: مُڇ
 * Slovak: fúzy,
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: shaarbo
 * Southern Altai: мыйык
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: masharubu
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: misay,
 * Tajik: мӯйлаб, бурут
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:, ทาฐิกะ,
 * Tibetan: ཁ་སྤུ, སྨ་ར, འ་ར
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: murt
 * Tuvan: сал
 * Udi: быгъ, бигъ
 * Ukrainian: ву́са, ву́си
 * Urdu: مونچھ
 * Uyghur: بۇرۇت
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian: bafo
 * Veps: habinod
 * Vietnamese:, ria mép,
 * Volapük: mustag
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: trawswch,
 * White Hmong: hwj-txwv
 * Yakut: бытык
 * Yiddish: וואָנצעס
 * Yoruba: máàmu, mámu, irun ètè, irun-imu, túbọ̀mú
 * Zazaki:

Etymology
(compare 🇨🇬), from, from , diminutive from.

Noun

 * , mustache
 * 1)  whisker (of a cat)

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  moustache