"musth" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /mʌst/, /mʌsθ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-musth.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-musth2.wav [Southern-England] Forms: musths [plural]
Etymology: Persian مست (mast, “drunk, inebriated”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fa|مست||drunk, inebriated|tr=mast}} Persian مست (mast, “drunk, inebriated”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} musth (countable and uncountable, plural musths)
  1. A time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness and often secrete leaking temporin from the sides of their heads. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Elephants Translations (Translations): mest (Azerbaijani), 狂暴期 (Chinese Mandarin), kandüh (Hungarian), മദം (madaṁ) (Malayalam), муст (must) (Russian), மதநீர் (matanīr) (Tamil), mest (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-musth-en-noun-ygfR4QE9 Disambiguation of Elephants: 82 18 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 80 20 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 86 14 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 84 16 Disambiguation of 'Translations': 90 10
  2. An elephant in this sexual and aggressive state. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-musth-en-noun-7iaiNvZ0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: must Derived forms: musthy

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