मूष्

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

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

मूष् • (mū́ṣ) stem, m or f

1. (literally) mouse
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.105.8:

     सं मा॑ तपन्त्य॒भितः॑ स॒पत्नी॑रिव॒ पर्श॑वः ।
     मूषो॒ न शि॒श्ना व्य॑दन्ति मा॒ध्यः॑ स्तो॒तारं॑ ते शतक्रतो वि॒त्तं मे॑ अ॒स्य रो॑दसी ॥

     sáṃ mā tapantyabhítaḥ sapátnīriva párśavaḥ.
     mū́ṣo ná śiśnā́ vyàdanti mādhyàḥ stotā́raṃ te śatakrato vittáṃ me asyá rodasī.

     Like rival wives, on every side, enclosing ribs oppress me sore.
     O Śatakratu, biting cares devour me, singer of thy praise, like mice devour the weaver's threads. Mark this my woe, ye Earth and Heaven.

2. (figuratively) "stealer", "thief" (literal meaning from verbal root √muṣ)

• Monier Williams (1899) “मूष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 827.