different between oud vs musk

English

Alternative forms

• 'ud

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (??d). Doublet of lute.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u?d/

Noun

oud (plural ouds)

1. (music) A short-necked and fretless plucked stringed instrument of the lute family, of Arab and Turkish origin.

   Coordinate term: sintir

2. (perfume) Agarwood.

Derived terms

• oudist

Translations

Further reading

• oud on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• 2010. Ottoman Medicine: Healing and Medical Institutions, 1500-1700. Miri Shefer-Mossensohn. Pg. 73.

Anagrams

• Duo, duo, duo-, udo

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch oud, from Middle Dutch out, from Old Dutch alt, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz, from Proto-Indo-European *altós, *h?eltós, from *h?el- (“grow, nourish”).

Adjective

oud (attributive ou, comparative ouer, superlative oudste)

1. old

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ou?t]

Noun

oud m

1. (archaic) Alternative form of úd.

Further reading

• oud in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• oud in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch out, from Old Dutch alt, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz, from Proto-Indo-European *altós, *h?eltós, from *h?el- (“grow, nourish”). Compare German alt, West Frisian âld, Low German old, English old.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?t/
• Rhymes: -?u?t

Adjective

oud (comparative ouder, superlative oudst)

1. old

Inflection

Next to the regular form oude, the form ouwe is also used informally.

Derived terms

• oude jongens krentenbrood
• ouder
• oudere
• ouderdom
• oudheid
• oudje

Related terms

• ouwe

Descendants

• Afrikaans: oud

Anagrams

• duo

Portuguese

Noun

oud m (plural ouds)

1. Alternative spelling of ud

English

Etymology

From Middle English muske, borrowed from Old French musc, from Late Latin muscus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (móskhos), from Middle Persian [script needed] (mwšk' /mušk/) whence Persian ???? (mošk). Ultimately from Sanskrit ????? (mu?ka, “testicle”), the shape of the gland of animals secreting the substance being compared to human testicles, a diminutive of ???? (m??, “mouse”), the shape of human testicles being compared to mice, from Proto-Indo-European *muh?s (“mouse”). Cognate with mouse.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m?sk/
• Rhymes: -?sk
• Homophone: MuSK

Noun

musk (countable and uncountable, plural musks)

1. A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
2. A similar secretion produced by the otter and the civet.
3. A synthetic organic compound used as a substitute for the above.
4. The odour of musk.
5. The musk deer (genus Moschus).
6. The musk plant (Mimulus moschatus).
7. A plant of the genus Erodium (Erodium moschatum); the musky heronsbill.
8. A plant of the genus Muscari; grape hyacinth.
9. (slang, colloquial, vulgar) The scent of human genitalia when aroused or unwashed.

   I was so excited I could smell my own musk.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

musk (third-person singular simple present musks, present participle musking, simple past and past participle musked)

1. (transitive) To perfume with musk.

Anagrams

• skum

Middle English

Noun

musk

1. Alternative form of muske