musk

Etymology
From, borrowed from , from , from , from whence 🇨🇬. Ultimately from, the shape of the gland of animals secreting the substance being compared to human testicles, a diminutive of , the shape of human testicles being compared to mice, from. Cognate with mouse.

Noun

 * 1) A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
 * 2) A similar secretion produced by the otter and the civet.
 * 3) A synthetic organic compound used as a substitute for the above.
 * 4) The odour of musk.
 * 5) A musk deer (genus ).
 * 6) A muskflower.
 * 7) A plant of the genus  ; the.
 * 8) A plant of the genus ; grape hyacinth.
 * 9)  The scent of human genitalia when aroused or unwashed.
 * I was so excited I could smell my own musk.
 * I was so excited I could smell my own musk.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: muskus
 * Arabic: مِسْك
 * Armenian:
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: мускус
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 麝香
 * Hokkien: 麝香
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: musk, moskus
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: mosko
 * Estonian: muskus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, Bisam
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: musc
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: ,
 * Korean: 사향(麝香)
 * Latin: muscus
 * Macedonian: мошус, миск
 * Malay: kasturi
 * Malayalam:
 * Mon:
 * Mongolian:
 * Pali: katthūrikā
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Prakrit: 𑀓𑀢𑁆𑀣𑀽𑀭𑀺𑀬𑀸, 𑀓𑀢𑁆𑀣𑀽𑀭𑀻
 * Punjabi: ਕਸਤੂਰੀ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мо̀шус
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: almiskle
 * Telugu:
 * Tibetan: གླ་རྩི་
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: му́скус
 * Urdu: مشک
 * Vietnamese: (麝香)
 * Welsh: mwsg

Verb

 * 1)  To perfume with musk.