मूष्

See also: मेष and मषि

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *múh₂s. Cognate with Latin mūs, Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Persian (muš), Old Church Slavonic мꙑшь (myšĭ), Old English mūs (English mouse).

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /múːʂ/
(Classical) IPA^(key): /muːʂ/

Noun

मूष् • (mū́ṣ) m, f

mouse
"stealer", "thief" (literal meaning from verbal root √muṣ)

Derived terms

मूष (mūṣa)
मूषक (mūṣaka)
मूषण (mūṣaṇa)
मूषिक (mūṣika)
मूषी (mūṣī)

References

Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0827

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