• n. 麝香；麝香鹿；麝香香味

來自拉丁語mus,老鼠，詞源同mouse,muscle,mussel.-k,小詞后綴，詞源同-kin.由小老鼠引申詞義陰囊，后用于指散發麝香香味的麝鹿的麝腺體，即麝香。其詞義演變體現了古代的用熟悉之物來命名某相似之物的命名法。比較musket,dragoon.

musk

musk: [14] Like the substance musk itself, the name musk came to Europe from the East. Its ultimate ancestor appears to have been Sanskrit muska ‘scrotum, testicle’. This meant literally ‘little mouse’ (it was a diminutive form of Sanskrit mūs ‘mouse’), and its metaphorical reapplication was due to a supposed similarity in shape between mice and testicles (a parallel inspiration gave rise to English muscle and mussel).

The gland from which the male musk deer secretes musk was held to resemble a scrotum, and so Persian took the Sanskrit word for ‘scrotum’ over, as mushk, and used it for ‘musk’. It reached English via late Latin muscus. The -meg of English nutmeg comes ultimately from Latin muscus, and other English relatives include muscat [16], the name of a grape that supposedly smells of musk, and its derivative muscatel [14].
=> mouse, muscatel, muscle, mussel, nutmeg

musk (n.)

late 14c., from Old French musc (13c.) and directly from Late Latin muscus, from Late Greek moskhos, from Persian mushk, from Sanskrit muska-s "testicle," from mus "mouse" (so called, presumably, for resemblance; see muscle). The deer gland was thought to resemble a scrotum. German has moschos, from a Medieval Latin form of the Late Greek word. Spanish has almizcle, from Arabic al misk "the musk," from Persian. Applied to various plants and animals of similar smell (such as musk-ox, 1744).

1. Musk is used for perfume and stimulant.

麝香可以用作香料和興奮劑.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. Musk is used for perfumes and stimulant.

麝香被用作香料和興奮劑.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

3. It has the odour of musk.

它有一種麝香的氣味.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

4. MuSK interacts with Dvl in muscle cells directly andspecifically.

我們用酵母雙雜交技術發現Dvl可以和MuSK的細胞內部分結合.

來自互聯網

5. Musk is produced naturally by the musk deer and is used to attract other deer sexually.

麝香是由雄麝天然產生用以吸引雌麝的.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》