mus

mus

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Muscogee.

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mus

1. plural of mu

• UMs, sum, MSU, UMS, Sum, ums

From Dutch muts, from Middle Dutch mutse.

• IPA^(key): /mœs/

mus (plural musse)

1. soft brimless hat, tuque

• mux
• musu
• muxu
• mis
• mix

• IPA^(key): /ˈmus/ [ˈmus]

mus

1. interjection used to call cats

• muxín

From earlier mux, probably from French mouche (“fly”).^[1] However, compare musu (“kiss”).^[2][3]

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mus inan

1. (card games) A traditional Basque card game.

From Old Norse mús, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs.

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

• IPA^(key): /muːˀs/, [muˀs]

mus c (singular definite musen, plural indefinite mus)

1. mouse (animal)
2. mouse (for a computer)

• dværgmus c
• flagermus c
• husmus c
• spidsmus c

From Middle Dutch mussche, from Old Dutch musca, from Latin muscio, derived from musca (“fly”).

Cognate with Limburgish mösj, Central Franconian Mösch, Mesch, Luxembourgish Mësch.

• IPA^(key): /mʏs/

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• Hyphenation: mus
• Rhymes: -ʏs

mus f (plural mussen, diminutive musje n)

1. sparrow, bird of the family Passeridae, especially of the genus Passer and a few smaller genera

• Afrikaans: mossie
• → Papiamentu: mùs

From Old Galician-Portuguese nos, from Latin nōs (“we; us”).

• IPA^(key): /mus/
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: mus

mus

1. (Lagarteiru) First person plural dative and accusative pronoun; us

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

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mus

1. first/second-person singular past historic of mouvoir

mus m pl

1. masculine plural of mû

mus (plural muses)

1. mouse

   Synonym: mure

From Proto-Italic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs. Cognates include Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Sanskrit मूष् (mū́ṣ), Old English mūs (English mouse), Old High German mūs (German Maus), Proto-Slavic *myšь (Russian мышь (myšʹ)).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmuːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmus]

mūs m or f (genitive mūris); third declension

1. a mouse, rat
   • c. 197 BCE, Plautus, Persa 1.2.6:

     Quasi mures semper edere alienum cibum.

     Like mice they always ate the food of other people

2. a sea mouse (Aphrodita aculeata)
3. (New Latin) a computer mouse

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• mūrex
• mūrilegulus
• mūscipulātor
• mūstricula

• Italian: mure (archaic)
• Romansch: mieur
• ⇒ Venetan: moreja, morecia
• Occitan:
  • ⇒ Provençal: muret (“marmot”)
  • ⇒ Vivaro-Alpine: muret (“marmot”)

    Valadas: mure (“marmot”)

• Asturian: mur, mure
  • ⇒ Asturian: murar
  • ⇒ Asturian: murera (“mousehole”)
• ⇒ Leonese: murar
• Old Galician-Portuguese: mur
  • ⇒ Galician: murar
  • ⇒ Portuguese: murar
  • Portuguese: mure
• Old Spanish: mur
  • ⇒ Old Spanish: murar
• Padanian:
  • ⇒ Lombard: muson (“shrew”)
  • ⇒ Piedmontese: musèt (“shrew”); muson (“shrew, mole”)
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • ⇒ Franco-Provençal: musèt (“shrew”)
• → Translingual: Mus

• “mus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "mus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “mus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “mus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

• sum

• IPA^(key): [mʊs]

mùs

1. first-person plural accusative of mes

From Arabic مُوسًى (mūsan). Compare Moroccan Arabic موس (mūs), Libyan Arabic موس (mūs).

• IPA^(key): /muːs/

mus m (plural mwies)

1. pocket knife, folding knife, jack-knife, switchblade

mus

1. pig

From French mouche.

mus

1. fly

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

mus

1. alternative form of mous

From Old High German mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈmuːs̠/

mūs f

1. mouse

• Alemannic German: Muus, Müss (Uri)
• Central Franconian: Muus, Mus (variant spelling), Maus, Mous (Moselle Franconian)
  • Hunsrik: Maus
  • Luxembourgish: Maus
• Cimbrian: maus
• German: Maus
• Vilamovian: maojs
• Yiddish: מויז (moyz)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “MÛS”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• "mūs" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːs/

mūs

1. locative of mun

From Old Norse mús.

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

• IPA^(key): /mʉːs/
• Rhymes: -ʉːs

mus m or f (definite singular musen or musa, indefinite plural mus, definite plural musene)

1. mouse (rodent)

   Jeg håper det ikke er mus i huset.

   I hope there aren't any mice in the house.

2. mouse (computing)

   Venstreklikk med musa di.

   Left click with your mouse.

4. (colloquial, vulgar, anatomy) pussy (female genitalia)

   Mus er noe jenter har mellom beina.

   A pussy is something girls have between their legs.

• datamus
• museklikk
• spissmus
• bollemus

• “mus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse mús (nominative and accusative plurals mýss), from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s. The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse, a coinage.

Germanic cognates include Icelandic mús, Faroese mús, Danish mus, Swedish mus, German Maus, German Low German Muus, Dutch muis, and English mouse. Indo-European cognates include Albanian mi, Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Armenian մուկ (muk), Hindi मूस (mūs), Latin mūs, Persian موش, and Russian мышь (myšʹ).

(computing): Semantic loan from English mouse.

• IPA^(key): /mʉːs/
• Rhymes: -ʉːs

mus f (definite singular musa, indefinite plural myser or mus, definite plural mysene or musene)

2. (rodent) a mouse
4. (colloquial, vulgar, anatomy) pussy (female genitalia)
6. (computing) computer mouse

• This noun is often used in compounds as a first part to emphasize little size.

• ((vulgar) female genitalia): fitte, kuse, kunte, vulva
• (computer mouse): datamus, skjermpilot

• lus f (“louse”) (for its morphological similarities)
• gnagar, rotte, vånd

• “mus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “mus”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
• “mus” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

• sum

From Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s.

• IPA^(key): /muːs/

mūs f

1. mouse
2. muscle

Strong consonant stem:

• mūsfealle (“mousetrap”)

• Middle English: mous, mouse, mowse, mows, mus, mowce, muse
  • English: mouse (see there for further descendants), moose (Northumbrian); muss
  • Scots: moose

From Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs.

mūs f

1. mouse

• Middle High German: mūs
  • Alemannic German: Muus, Müss (Uri)
  • Central Franconian: Muus, Mus (variant spelling), Maus, Mous (Moselle Franconian)
    • Hunsrik: Maus
    • Luxembourgish: Maus
  • Cimbrian: maus
  • German: Maus
  • Vilamovian: maojs
  • Yiddish: מויז (moyz)

• Köbler, Gerhard (2014) “mūs”, in Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎^[3] (in German), 6th edition

From Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s.

• IPA^(key): /muːs/

mūs f

1. mouse

• Middle Low German: mûs
  • Low German: Muus
  • Plautdietsch: Mus

From Old Norse mús, from Proto-Germanic *mūs.

mūs f

1. mouse

• Swedish: mus

• IPA^(key): /ˈmus/

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• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: mus

Deverbal from musieć.

mus m inan

1. (colloquial) constraint, coercion, must

   Synonym: przymus

Borrowed from German Mousse.

mus m inan

1. mousse (airy pudding served chilled)

• mus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mus in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• mus in PWN's encyclopedia
• Wanda Decyk-Zięba, editor (2018-2022), “mus”, in Dydaktyczny Słownik Etymologiczno-historyczny Języka Polskiego [A Didactic, Historical, Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), →ISBN

Borrowed from French mousse.

mus m (plural muși)

1. cabin boy

Borrowed from Basque mus.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmus/ [ˈmus]
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: mus

mus m (uncountable)

1. (card games) a card game that is very popular in Spain

• “mus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From English must.

• IPA^(key): /mus/

mus

1. (auxiliary) to have to, must

From Old Swedish mūs, from Old Norse mús, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s (“mouse”).

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

• IPA^(key): /mʉːs/

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• Rhymes: -ʉːs

mus c

1. mouse; small rodent of the genus Mus; especially species Mus musculus
2. (computing) a computer mouse; an input device
3. (colloquial) a pussy; female genitalia

• (small rodent): Mus musculus
• (input device): datormus

animal

• hasselmus
• husmus
• musfälla
• musgrå
• muskel
• näbbmus
• tyst som en mus

computers

• datormus
• musarm
• musknapp
• musmatta
• muspekare

• pekdon
• råtta
• sork

• mus in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mus in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH
• Fula Ordboken

From Proto-Algonquian *mo·swa.

• IPA^(key): /mus/

mus anim (plural musàk)

1. elk, moose

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

mus

1. (Chipilo) donkey

From Proto-Hmong *n-mʉŋᴮ (“to go”), from Proto-Hmong-Mien *n-mʉŋ(X) (“id”).^[1] Cognate with Proto-Mien *n-mɨŋᴬ (“id”), whence Iu Mien mingh.

• IPA^(key): /mu˩/

mus

1. to go

mus

1. shoo!

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[4], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 132.