whiskey

Etymology 1
Variant of, abbreviation of , from , calque of. Compare, , , , and from the same source and  from a Russian diminutive for water in reference to the dilution of pure grain spirits.

Noun

 * 1)  A liquor distilled from the fermented mash of grain (as rye, corn, or barley).
 * 2)  A drink of whiskey.
 * 1)  A drink of whiskey.

Usage notes
The regional spellings and  (from the  form of the same Gaelic word) are used world-wide to distinguish regional drinks, for example  but.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: whisky
 * Alabama: okiimi
 * Albanian:
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: túnchʼíʼ
 * Arabic: وِيسْكِي, وِسْكِي
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: viski
 * Belarusian: ві́скі
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Central Melanau: wiski
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 威士忌酒, 威士忌
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Coast Miwok: ʔómu líwa
 * Cornish: hwiski
 * Czech:
 * Danish: whisky
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: viskio
 * Estonian: viski
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ვისკი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: whisky
 * Hebrew: וויסקי
 * Hindi:, विलायती पानी, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: viskí
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:, uisce beatha
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: виски
 * Khmer: វីស្គី
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: виски
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: viskis
 * Macedonian: виски
 * Malay: wiski
 * Maltese: wiski
 * Manx: ushtey bea
 * Maori: wihikē
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: виски
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: whisky
 * Occitan: oísqui
 * Pashto: ويسکي
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi: ਵਿਸਕੀ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: uisge-beatha
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ви̏ски
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: whisky
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, wiski,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: wiski
 * Tajik: виски
 * Thai: วิสกี้
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: wiski
 * Ukrainian: ві́скі
 * Urdu: وہسکی, مدیرا
 * Uyghur: ۋىسكى
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: huých-ki,, rượu uytky
 * Volapük:, filavin,  lifavat
 * Welsh: chwisgi
 * Yiddish: וויסקי

Etymology 2
From

Noun

 * 1)  A light gig or carriage drawn by one horse.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) (a glass of) whiskey

Etymology
,, from ,.

Noun

 * 1)  drink

Etymology
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