"musket" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈmʌskət/, /ˈmʌskɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-musket.wav [Southern-England] Forms: muskets [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌskɪt Etymology: First attested around 1210 as a surname, and later in the 1400s as a word for the sparrowhawk (Middle English forms: musket, muskett, muskete (“sparrow hawk”)), from Middle French mousquet, from Old Italian moschetto (a diminutive of mosca (“fly”), from Latin musca) used to refer initially to a sparrowhawk (given its small size or speckled appearance) and then a crossbow arrow. The name was subsequently adopted for a heavier, shoulder-fired version of an arquebus, adhering to a pattern of naming firearms and cannons after birds of prey and similar creatures (compare falcon, falconet), a sense which was also borrowed into French and then (around 1580) into English. Cognate to Spanish mosquete, Portuguese mosquete. Smoothbore firearms continued to be called muskets even as they switched from using matchlocks to flintlocks to percussion locks, but with the advent of rifled muskets, the word was finally displaced by rifle. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|-}} Middle English, {{m|enm|musket}} musket, {{m|enm|muskett}} muskett, {{m|enm|muskete|t=sparrow hawk}} muskete (“sparrow hawk”), {{der|en|frm|mousquet}} Middle French mousquet, {{der|en|roa-oit|moschetto}} Old Italian moschetto, {{m|it|mosca||fly}} mosca (“fly”), {{der|en|la|musca}} Latin musca, {{m|en|falcon}} falcon, {{m|en|falconet}} falconet, {{cog|es|mosquete}} Spanish mosquete, {{cog|pt|mosquete}} Portuguese mosquete, {{m|en|rifle}} rifle Head templates: {{en-noun}} musket (plural muskets)
  1. A kind of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army, originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted; ultimately superseded by the rifle. Categories (topical): Firearms Translations (firearm): mushqetë [feminine] (Albanian), arnautkë [feminine] (Albanian), մուշկետ (mušket) (Armenian), moskete (Basque), мушке́т (muškjét) [masculine] (Belarusian), муске́т (muskét) [masculine] (Bulgarian), mosquet [masculine] (Catalan), 滑膛槍 (Chinese Mandarin), 滑膛枪 (huátángqiāng) (Chinese Mandarin), 火槍 (Chinese Mandarin), 火枪 (huǒqiāng) (Chinese Mandarin), mušketa [feminine] (Czech), musket [common-gender] (Danish), musket [neuter] (Dutch), musketo (Esperanto), muskedo (Esperanto), musket (Estonian), muskett [feminine] (Faroese), musketti (Finnish), mousquet [masculine] (French), მუშკეტი (mušḳeṭi) (Georgian), Muskete [feminine] (German), μουσκέτο (mouskéto) [neuter] (Greek), muskéta (Hungarian), moskotér (Hungarian), framhlaðningur [masculine] (Icelandic), musketo (Ido), fusilo (Ido), bedil sundut (Indonesian), musket [archaic] (Indonesian), بَنْدوق (banduğ) (Iranian Persian), moschetto [masculine] (Italian), マスケット銃 (masuketto jū) (alt: マスケットじゅう) (Japanese), マスケット (masuketto) (Japanese), 머스킷 (meoseukit) (Korean), mosquetum [neuter] (Latin), muskete [feminine] (Latvian), muškieta [feminine] (Lithuanian), муске́та (muskéta) [feminine] (Macedonian), senapang lantak (Malay), (Maori), kauamo (Maori), pūokaoka (Maori), purukumu (Maori), beeʼeldǫǫh (Navajo), muskett [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), muskett [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), بَنْدُوق (bandūq) (Persian), muszkiet [masculine] (Polish), mosquete (Portuguese), muschetă [feminine] (Romanian), muschet [neuter, rare] (Romanian), мушке́т (muškét) [masculine] (Russian), му̀шкета [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), mùšketa [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), mušketa [feminine] (Slovak), mušketa [feminine] (Slovene), mosquete [masculine] (Spanish), musköt [common-gender] (Swedish), தெறாடி (teṟāṭi) (Tamil), చిన్న తుపాకి (cinna tupāki) (Telugu), ปืนคาบศิลา (Thai), misket tüfeği (Turkish), мушке́т (muškét) [masculine] (Ukrainian), súng hỏa mai (Vietnamese), mwsged [masculine] (Welsh), mwsgedi [masculine, plural] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-musket-en-noun-RP~Z8xXZ Disambiguation of Firearms: 45 55 Disambiguation of 'firearm': 60 40
  2. (falconry) A male Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus). Categories (topical): Falconry, Firearms Categories (lifeform): Accipiters
    Sense id: en-musket-en-noun-GXca7P5l Disambiguation of Firearms: 45 55 Disambiguation of Accipiters: 19 81 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 68 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 25 75 Topics: falconry, hobbies, hunting, lifestyle
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: musquet Derived forms: musket ball Related terms: musketeer, musketoon

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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "muškieta"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "muskéta",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "муске́та"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "word": "senapang lantak"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "word": "pū"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "word": "kauamo"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "word": "pūokaoka"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "word": "purukumu"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "word": "beeʼeldǫǫh"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "muskett"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "muskett"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa-cls",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Classical Persian"
      ],
      "roman": "bandūq",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "word": "بَنْدُوق"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa-ira",
      "lang": "Iranian Persian",
      "roman": "banduğ",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "word": "بَنْدوق"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "muszkiet"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "word": "mosquete"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "muschetă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "muschet"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "muškét",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "мушке́т"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "му̀шкета"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mùšketa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mušketa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mušketa"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mosquete"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "musköt"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "teṟāṭi",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "word": "தெறாடி"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "cinna tupāki",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "word": "చిన్న తుపాకి"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "word": "ปืนคาบศิลา"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "word": "misket tüfeği"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "muškét",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "мушке́т"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "word": "súng hỏa mai"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mwsged"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "mwsgedi"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "musket"
  ],
  "word": "musket"
}

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