muscat

See also: Muscat and mușcat

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French muscat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌskæt/, /ˈmʌskət/

Noun

muscat (countable and uncountable, plural muscats)

1. A white grape variety; used as table grapes and for making raisins and sweet wine.
2. The muscatel wine made from these grapes.
3. The vine bearing this fruit.

Derived terms

• shine muscat

Translations

grape

• Bulgarian: мискет m (misket)
• Crimean Tatar: muskat, miskat
• Irish: musc-chaor f
• Japanese: マスカット (ja) (masukatto)
• Korean: 머스캣 (meoseukaet)
• Macedonian: му́скат m (múskat)
• Polish: muszkat (pl) m
• Portuguese: moscatel (pt) m
• Russian: муска́т (ru) m (muskát)
• Yiddish: מושקעט (mushket), מושקאַט (mushkat), מוסקאַט (muskat)

wine

• Japanese: マスカット (ja) (masukatto)
• Korean: 머스캣 (meoseukaet)
• Macedonian: му́скат m (múskat)
• Polish: muszkat (pl) m, muszkatel (pl) m
• Portuguese: moscatel (pt) m
• Russian: муска́т (ru) m (muskát)
• Yiddish: מושקעט (mushket), מושקאַט (mushkat), מוסקאַט (muskat), מושקעטווײַן (mushketvayn)

vine

Anagrams

• umcast

French

Etymology

From Provençal musc (“musk”), from Ancient Greek μόσχος (móskhos), borrowed from Middle Persian *mušk, from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mys.ka/

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Noun

muscat m (plural muscats)

1. muscat (all senses)

Descendants

• → English: muscat
• → Georgian: მუსკატი (musḳaṭi)

Further reading

• “muscat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French muscat.

Adjective

muscat m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. muscat

Declension

invariable		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	muscat		muscat		muscat	muscat
	definite	—		—		—	—
genitive- dative	indefinite	muscat		muscat		muscat	muscat
	definite	—		—		—	—

Noun

muscat n (uncountable)

1. muscat

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	muscat	muscatul
genitive-dative	muscat	muscatului
vocative	muscatule

See also

• mușcat