"mussuck" meaning in All languages combined

See mussuck on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈmʌsək/ Forms: mussucks [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌsək Etymology: From Urdu مشک (maśak) / Hindi मशक (maśak), from Persian مشک (mašk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (mšk' /⁠mašk⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎶𐏁𐎣𐎠 (m-š-k-a /⁠maškā⁠/), via Aramaic or another descendant of Proto-Semitic *mašk- (“skin”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ur|مشک|tr=maśak}} Urdu مشک (maśak), {{bor|en|hi|मशक}} Hindi मशक (maśak), {{der|en|fa|مشک|tr=mašk}} Persian مشک (mašk), {{der|en|pal|tr=mšk'|ts=mašk}} Middle Persian [script needed] (mšk' /⁠mašk⁠/), {{der|en|peo|𐎶𐏁𐎣𐎠|ts=maškā}} Old Persian 𐎶𐏁𐎣𐎠 (m-š-k-a /⁠maškā⁠/), {{der|en|arc|-}} Aramaic, {{der|en|sem-pro|*mašk-|t=skin}} Proto-Semitic *mašk- (“skin”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} mussuck (plural mussucks)
  1. (historical, Pakistan, India) an inflated skin-bag for water, variously given as from goats, from cows or from dogs, often by bheesties Tags: India, Pakistan, historical Categories (topical): Vessels Synonyms: mussick, mussock
    Sense id: en-mussuck-en-noun-kwge7O6n Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Indian English, Pakistani English

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for mussuck meaning in All languages combined (3.9kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ur",
        "3": "مشک",
        "tr": "maśak"
      },
      "expansion": "Urdu مشک (maśak)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "मशक"
      },
      "expansion": "Hindi मशक (maśak)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fa",
        "3": "مشک",
        "tr": "mašk"
      },
      "expansion": "Persian مشک (mašk)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pal",
        "tr": "mšk'",
        "ts": "mašk"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Persian [script needed] (mšk' /⁠mašk⁠/)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "peo",
        "3": "𐎶𐏁𐎣𐎠",
        "ts": "maškā"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Persian 𐎶𐏁𐎣𐎠 (m-š-k-a /⁠maškā⁠/)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "arc",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Aramaic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sem-pro",
        "3": "*mašk-",
        "t": "skin"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Semitic *mašk- (“skin”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Urdu مشک (maśak) / Hindi मशक (maśak), from Persian مشک (mašk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (mšk' /⁠mašk⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎶𐏁𐎣𐎠 (m-š-k-a /⁠maškā⁠/), via Aramaic or another descendant of Proto-Semitic *mašk- (“skin”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mussucks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mussuck (plural mussucks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Indian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pakistani English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Vessels",
          "orig": "en:Vessels",
          "parents": [
            "Containers",
            "Liquids",
            "Tools",
            "Matter",
            "Technology",
            "Chemistry",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1876 Joseph Fayrer, The London Medical Record vol. 4 page 183 = The Practitioner vol. 16 page 183",
          "text": "In that form of sunstroke where the person is struck down suddenly by a hot sun, the patient should be removed into the shade, and the douche of cold water being allowed to fall in a stream on the head and body, from a pump (or, as in India, from the mussuck, or other similar contrivance should be freely resorted to, the object being two-fold: to reduce the temperature of the over-heated centres, and to rouse them into action. During the assault on the White House piquet in the last Burmese war, numbers of men were struck down by the direct action of the sun during the month of April. They were laid out perfectly unconscious, in their red coats and stocks (they wore them in those days, 1852), but were recovered by the cold douche freely applied by the mussuck over the head and body.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Owen Tudor Burne, Memories, London: Edward Arnold, page 125",
          "text": "We had what was to us an extraordinary and fascinating experience in this trip of going down the Ravi River through strong rapids on mussucks, or inflated cowskins, and it was indeed a delightful river voyage of fifty miles through splendid hill scenery.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an inflated skin-bag for water, variously given as from goats, from cows or from dogs, often by bheesties"
      ],
      "id": "en-mussuck-en-noun-kwge7O6n",
      "links": [
        [
          "inflate",
          "inflate"
        ],
        [
          "skin",
          "skin"
        ],
        [
          "bag",
          "bag"
        ],
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ],
        [
          "goat",
          "goat"
        ],
        [
          "cow",
          "cow"
        ],
        [
          "dog",
          "dog"
        ],
        [
          "bheestie",
          "bheestie"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, Pakistan, India) an inflated skin-bag for water, variously given as from goats, from cows or from dogs, often by bheesties"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "mussick"
        },
        {
          "word": "mussock"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India",
        "Pakistan",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmʌsək/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌsək"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mussuck"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ur",
        "3": "مشک",
        "tr": "maśak"
      },
      "expansion": "Urdu مشک (maśak)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "मशक"
      },
      "expansion": "Hindi मशक (maśak)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fa",
        "3": "مشک",
        "tr": "mašk"
      },
      "expansion": "Persian مشک (mašk)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pal",
        "tr": "mšk'",
        "ts": "mašk"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Persian [script needed] (mšk' /⁠mašk⁠/)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "peo",
        "3": "𐎶𐏁𐎣𐎠",
        "ts": "maškā"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Persian 𐎶𐏁𐎣𐎠 (m-š-k-a /⁠maškā⁠/)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "arc",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Aramaic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sem-pro",
        "3": "*mašk-",
        "t": "skin"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Semitic *mašk- (“skin”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Urdu مشک (maśak) / Hindi मशक (maśak), from Persian مشک (mašk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (mšk' /⁠mašk⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎶𐏁𐎣𐎠 (m-š-k-a /⁠maškā⁠/), via Aramaic or another descendant of Proto-Semitic *mašk- (“skin”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mussucks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mussuck (plural mussucks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English historical terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Hindi",
        "English terms borrowed from Urdu",
        "English terms derived from Aramaic",
        "English terms derived from Hindi",
        "English terms derived from Middle Persian",
        "English terms derived from Old Persian",
        "English terms derived from Persian",
        "English terms derived from Proto-Semitic",
        "English terms derived from Urdu",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Indian English",
        "Pakistani English",
        "Requests for native script for Middle Persian terms",
        "Rhymes:English/ʌsək",
        "en:Vessels"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1876 Joseph Fayrer, The London Medical Record vol. 4 page 183 = The Practitioner vol. 16 page 183",
          "text": "In that form of sunstroke where the person is struck down suddenly by a hot sun, the patient should be removed into the shade, and the douche of cold water being allowed to fall in a stream on the head and body, from a pump (or, as in India, from the mussuck, or other similar contrivance should be freely resorted to, the object being two-fold: to reduce the temperature of the over-heated centres, and to rouse them into action. During the assault on the White House piquet in the last Burmese war, numbers of men were struck down by the direct action of the sun during the month of April. They were laid out perfectly unconscious, in their red coats and stocks (they wore them in those days, 1852), but were recovered by the cold douche freely applied by the mussuck over the head and body.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Owen Tudor Burne, Memories, London: Edward Arnold, page 125",
          "text": "We had what was to us an extraordinary and fascinating experience in this trip of going down the Ravi River through strong rapids on mussucks, or inflated cowskins, and it was indeed a delightful river voyage of fifty miles through splendid hill scenery.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an inflated skin-bag for water, variously given as from goats, from cows or from dogs, often by bheesties"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "inflate",
          "inflate"
        ],
        [
          "skin",
          "skin"
        ],
        [
          "bag",
          "bag"
        ],
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ],
        [
          "goat",
          "goat"
        ],
        [
          "cow",
          "cow"
        ],
        [
          "dog",
          "dog"
        ],
        [
          "bheestie",
          "bheestie"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, Pakistan, India) an inflated skin-bag for water, variously given as from goats, from cows or from dogs, often by bheesties"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India",
        "Pakistan",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmʌsək/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌsək"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "mussick"
    },
    {
      "word": "mussock"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mussuck"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.