musk (now chiefly zoology, never used of synthetic musk) · ellipsis of Bisamratte (“muskrat”) · ellipsis of Bisamfell (“muskrat pelt”)
çekim: çoğul Bisame · tamlayan Bisams
eş: Moschus, Bisamratte
köken: From Middle High German bisem, from Old High German bisam, bisamo, borrowed from Medieval Latin bisamum, from Hebrew בֹּשֶׂם (bāśām, bōśem, “perfume”). Doublet of Balsam (“balm, balsam”) and Desman.
köken: Inherited from Old French musc, borrowed from Late Latin mūscus, from Ancient Greek μόσχος (móskhos), from Middle Persian *mušk, from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka, “testicle”), the shape of the gland of animals secreting the substance being compared to human testicles.
köken: Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic المسك (al-mísk), from Arabic مِسْك (misk), from Persian مشک (mošk), from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka, “testicle, scrotum”).
köken: From Latin mūscus, probably through a diminutive Vulgar Latin root *mūsclus, from syncopation of an earlier *mūsculus. Compare Romanian mușchi, Friulian muscli. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mus-.
köken: From Middle Persian mwšk' (mušk, “musk”), from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka). Compare Old Armenian մուշկ (mušk), Old Georgian მუშკი (mušḳi), Iranian borrowings and also English musk.