English
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
Noun
muskrat (plural muskrats)
- A large semiaquatic 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.
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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, rata almizclada f, rata almizcleña f
- 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
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Suncus murinus
- Czech: bělozubka hnědá
- Finnish: kyläpäästäinen
- German: Moschusspitzmaus
- Hindi: छछुंदर (hi) (chachundar)
- Kannada: ಸುಂಡಿಲಿ (kn) (suṇḍili)
- Russian: гига́нтская белозу́бка f (gigántskaja belozúbka), бу́рая му́скусная землеро́йка f (búraja múskusnaja zemlerójka), домова́я многозу́бка f (domovája mnogozúbka)
- Tamil: மூஞ்சூறு (ta) (mūñcūṟu)
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