مسك

مَسَكَ • (masaka) I (non-past يَمْسُكُ (yamsuku) or يَمْسِكُ (yamsiku), verbal noun مَسْك (mask))

1. to grab, grasp, clutch, clasp, seize, take hold
2. to hold
3. to stick, cling, adhere, hang on

مَسَّكَ • (massaka) II (non-past يُمَسِّكُ (yumassiku), verbal noun تَمْسِيك (tamsīk))

1. to have someone seize or hold something

مَسْك • (mask) m

1. verbal noun of مَسَكَ (masaka) (form I)
2. seizure, grip, hold
3. keeping (bookkeeping, etc.)

مُسُك • (musuk) (feminine مُسُكَة (musuka), masculine plural مُسَكَة (musaka))

1. grasping, greedy, avaricious

From Proto-Semitic *mašk-.

مَسْك • (mask) m (plural مُسُوك (musūk))

1. recently cut hide of a new-born goat, scalp of a neonate

• مَسْكَة (maska)

From Middle Persian (mwšk' /⁠mušk⁠/, “musk”) (Persian مشک (mošk, “musk”)), from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka, “testicle, scrotum”).

مِسْك • (misk) m or f

1. musk
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 82:25-26:

     يُسۡقَوۡنَ مِن رَّحِيقࣲ مَّخۡتُومٍ ۝ خِتَـٰمُهُۥ مِسۡكࣱۚ […]

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• مِسْك الخِتَام (misk al-ḵitām)

• Andalusian Arabic: مِسْك
  • → Catalan: mesc, almesc
  • → Spanish: almizcle
    • → Tagalog: almiskle
  • → Portuguese: almíscar
• Gulf Arabic: مسك (misk)
• → Northern Kurdish: misk
• → Turkish: misk, mis

Denominal verb of مِسْك (misk, “musk”).

مَسَّكَ • (massaka) II (non-past يُمَسِّكُ (yumassiku), verbal noun تَمْسِيك (tamsīk))

1. to scent with musk

Denominal verb of مُسْكَان (muskān, “retainer, earnest money”).

مَسَّكَ • (massaka) II (non-past يُمَسِّكُ (yumassiku), verbal noun تَمْسِيك (tamsīk))

1. to pay retainer to

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “مسك”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 179
• الأعشى (a. 625) Geyer, Rudolf, editor, Zwei Gedichte von Al-ʾAʿšâ (Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-historische Klasse; 149/6)‎ (in German), volume Mâ Bukâʾu, Wien: In Kommission bei Carl Gerold’s Sohn, published 1905, pages 91–92
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 264
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “مسك”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1106
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “مسك”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 1001
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “مسك”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1065

• IPA^(key): /mi.sik/

مسك • (misik) I (non-past يمسك (yimsik), verbal noun مسك (mask) or مسكان (masakān), active participle ماسك (māsik), passive participle ممسوك (mamsūk))

1. (transitive) to take hold of, to grasp
2. (transitive) to capture, to arrest

• Hinds, Martin, Badawi, El-Said (1986) “م س ك”, in A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic‎, Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 822
• Spiro, Socrates (1895) “مسك”, in An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt, 1st edition, Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office, pages 566-567

From Arabic مَسَكَ (masaka).

• IPA^(key): /ma.sak/,
• IPA^(key): /mi.sik/,

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مَسَك or مِسِك • (masak or misik) I (present بمسك (bimsik), active participle ماسك (māsek))

1. to grab
2. to hold