muskrat

See also: musk-rat

English

Alternative forms

musk-rat

Etymology

Perhaps so called for its musky odour and because it resembles a rat, or perhaps called by an Algonquian name like the Abenaki moskwas, with the spelling altered under the influence of the English words musk and rat.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmʌskɹæt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

muskrat (plural muskrats)

A large aquatic rodent of species Ondatra zibethicus.
- 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 187.
  He also said that minks, muskrats, foxes, coons, and wild mice were found there, but no squirrels.
Any of several shrews in the family Soricidae, especially an Asian house shrew (Suncus murinus).
(obsolete) A bandicoot rat.

Synonyms

ondatra (dialectal), 'rat (chiefly informal), rat (chiefly informal)
(Ondatra zibethicus): musquash
(Suncus murinus): Asian house shrew, musk shrew

Derived terms

Translations

Ondatra zibethicus

Ahtna: dzen
Algonquin: wajack
Arabic: فَأْرُ المِسْك m (faʔru l-misk)
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Asturian: mur almizcleru
Azerbaijani: ondatra
Bashkir: ондатра (ondatra)
Basque: arratoi musketadun
Belarusian: анда́тра f (andátra)
Breton: razh-musk (br)
Bulgarian: ондатра f (ondatra)
Catalan: rata mesquera f
Cherokee: ᏎᎳᎩᏍᏆ (selagisqua)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 麝鼠 (zh) (shèshǔ)
Czech: ondatra (cs)
Danish: bisamrotte
Dutch: muskusrat (nl) f
Erzya: шарапуло (šarapulo)
Esperanto: ondatro
Estonian: ondatra (et)
Faroese: moskusrotta
Finnish: piisami (fi)
French: rat musqué (fr) m
Galician: aguaneira (gl)
Georgian: ონდატრა (ondaṭra)
German: Bisamratte (de) f
Greek: μοσχοπόντικας (moschopóntikas)
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: pézsmapocok (hu)
Icelandic: moskusrotta, bísamrotta
Ido: moskorato (io)
Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
Irish: muscfhrancach
Italian: topo muschiato m
Japanese: マスクラット (ja) (masukuratto)
Korean: 사향쥐 (sahyangjwi)
Latvian: ondatra
Lithuanian: ondatra
Lower Sorbian: bizamowy šćurk
Lower Tanana: dzenh
Luxembourgish: Bisamrat
Macedonian: бизамски стаорец m (bizamski staorec)
Maltese: far tal-misk ta’ l-ilma
Mi'kmaq: gi'gwesu anim
Munsee: xwáshkwshush
Navajo: tooh łéʼétsoh
Norwegian: bisamrotte
Ojibwe: wazhashk
Pashto: please add this translation if you can
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: piżmak (pl) m
Portuguese: rato almiscareiro m
Romanian: bizam (ro) m
Romansch: undatra
Russian: онда́тра (ru) f (ondátra)
Saanich: sq̕əɬq̕əɬ
Sardinian: medrona muscada, topi muscau
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бизамски пацов m

Roman: bizamski pacov m, mošusni štakor m (Croatia), bizamski štakor m (Croatia)
Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: ondatra pižmová
Slovene: pižmovka f
Somali: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: rata almizclera
Swedish: bisam (sv) c, bisamråtta c
Tanacross: dzenh
Tlingit: tsín
Turkish: misk sıçanı
Udmurt: вукомак (vukomak)
Ukrainian: онда́тра f (ondátra)
Upper Sorbian: pižmo, pižmowa šćura, bizamowa myš
Vietnamese: chuột xạ hương
Welsh: mwsglygoden, llygoden fwsg
West Frisian: muskusrôt
Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
Yiddish: פּיזעם m (pizem)
Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Suncus murinus

Czech: bělozubka hnědá
Finnish: kyläpäästäinen
German: Moschusspitzmaus
Hindi: छछुंदर (hi) (chachundar)
Kannada: ಸುಂಡಿಲಿ (kn) (suṇḍili), ಸುಂಡಿಲಿ (kn) (suṇḍili)
Russian: гига́нтская белозу́бка f (gigántskaja belozúbka), бу́рая му́скусная землеро́йка f (búraja múskusnaja zemlerójka), домова́я многозу́бка f (domovája mnogozúbka)

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Translations to be checked

Telugu: కంపెలుక (te) (kampeluka)

References

muskrat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Asian house shrew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Ondatra zibethicus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Suncus murinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Ondatra zibethicus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

Muktsar, muktars