mussel, bivalve of the family Mytilidae · blue mussel, common mussel (Mytilus edulis)
çekim: çoğul mosselen
köken: From Middle Dutch mossel, mussel, from Old French moule, mousle, muisle, from Latin mūsculus. Note that Middle Dutch also attests a form mosschele (with various spelling variants), which is not directly ancestral to this Modern Dutch form and which is said to be an older loanword directly from Latin: see Proto-West Germanic *muskulā.
köken: First attested in the Hyang'yak gugeupbang (鄕藥救急方 / 향약구급방), 1236, as Late Old Korean 召介 (Yale: *cwokay). In the hangul script, first attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean 조개 (Yale: cwokay). Also attested in the Neung'eomgyeong eonhae (楞嚴經諺解 / 능엄경언해), 1461, as Middle Korean 죠개 (Yale: cywokay). Possibly cognate with Korean 게 (ge, “crab”)
köken: Borrowed from Middle Low German mussel, mussele, muschel, muschele, from Latin musculus. Cognate of Dutch mossel, German Muschel, English mussel, Danish musling. Doublet of muskel.
bivalve (any species of mollusks belonging to the class Bivalvia); (in the plural) the class Bivalvia · clam (a bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible) · mussel (any small edible bivalve shellfish)
çekim: çoğul simpukat · tamlayan simpukan
köken: Borrowed from Russian же́мчуг (žémčug, “pearl”). See Old East Slavic жьньчюгъ (žĭnĭčjugŭ) for further etymology.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese (independently attested in both corpora), from Vulgar Latin *damascina, from Latin damascēna (prūna) n pl (“Damascene plums”), with a loss of initial 'd'. Cognate with English damson and damascene. Possibly indirectly influenced by Etymology 2.