Cooked mussels (Mytilus edulis)
Mussels in beer broth at a restaurant in Singapore
Etymology
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From Middle English muscle (“mussel”), from Old English muscle, from Proto-West Germanic *muskulā, from Late Latin muscula, from Latin mūsculus (“mussel, muscle”, literally “little mouse”). Doublet of muscle.
Pronunciation
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mussel (plural mussels)
- Any of several groups of bivalve shellfish with elongated, asymmetrical shells.
- A freshwater mussel, usually edible, of the order Unionida in subclass Palaeoheterodonta.
- A saltwater mussel, usually edible, of the order Mytilida in subclass Pteriomorphia.
- Any of certain other bivalves of somewhat similar appearance, such as the zebra mussel and quagga mussel of the family Dreissenidae in subclass Heterodonta.
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Translations
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- Abenaki: als
- Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
- Afrikaans: mossel (af)
- Arabic: بَلَحُ الْبَحْر m (balaḥu l-baḥr)
- Hijazi Arabic: بَلَح البَحَر m (balaḥ al-baḥar)
- Moroccan Arabic: بو زْروڭ m (bu zrug)
- Armenian: միդիա (midia)
- Azerbaijani: midye
- Basque: muskuilua
- Belarusian: мі́дыя f (mídyja)
- Brunei Malay: kupang
- Bulgarian: мида (bg) f (mida)
- Catalan: musclo (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 青口 (ceng1 hau2)
- Mandarin: 淡菜 (zh) (dàncài), 殼菜／壳菜 (zh) (qiàocài), 貽貝／贻贝 (zh) (yíbèi), 青口 (zh) (qīngkǒu)
- Czech: slávka (cs) f
- Danish: musling (da) c
- Dutch: mossel (nl) f
- Esperanto: mitulo
- Estonian: jõekarp
- Ewe: aɖɔɖi n
- Faroese: kræklingur m
- Finnish: simpukka (fi)
- French: moule (fr) f
- Galician: mexillón (gl) m
- Georgian: ორკარედი ნიჟარა (orḳaredi nižara)
- German: Muschel (de) f, Miesmuschel (de) f
- Greek: μύδι (el) n (mýdi)
- Ancient: κόγχη f (kónkhē)
- Greenlandic: uiloq
- Hebrew: מוּל (he) m (mul)
- Hungarian: szívkagyló (hu), kagyló (hu)
- Icelandic: kræklingur (is) m, bláskel f
- Irish: diúilicín m
- Italian: cozza (it) f, mitilo (it) m, muscolo (it) m, peocio m, dattero nero m, poverazza f
- Japanese: 貽貝 (ja) (イガイ, igai), ムール貝 (mūru-gai)
- Khmer: គ្រំចំពុះទា (krum chɑmpuh tie), គ្រំប៉ោក (krum paok)
- Korean: 조개 (ko) (jogae), 홍합 (ko) (honghap)
- Latin: spondylus m
- Macedonian: мушула (mk) f (mušula), школка f (školka)
- Malay: kupang (ms)
- Maori: kūtai
- Middle English: muscle
- Navajo: chʼosh dichiłí bitsʼaʼígíí
- Norman: moûle f, bé d'corbîn m
- Northern Sami: skálžu
- Norwegian: blåskjell
- Old English: muscle f
- Persian: صدف سیاه (sadaf-e siyâh)
- Polish: małż (pl) m, omułek (pl) m
- Portuguese: mexilhão (pt) m
- Romanian: midie (ro) f, scoică de apă dulce
- Russian: ми́дия (ru) f (mídija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: školjka (sh) f, jestiva školjka f, dagnja (sh) f
- Slovak: mušľa f
- Slovene: dagnja f
- Southern Ohlone: hakkaw
- Spanish: mejillón (es) m, choro (es)
- Swedish: mussla (sv) c
- Tagalog: halaan
- Thai: หอยสองฝา (hŏi sŏng făa)
- Turkish: midye (tr)
- Ukrainian: мі́дія f (mídija)
- Vietnamese: trai (vi)
- Walloon: mosse (wa) f, moule (wa) f, moulete (wa) f
- Welsh: cragen las f (North Welsh), cragen ddu f, misglen (cy) f (South Welsh)
- West Coast Bajau: please add this translation if you can
- Wolof: please add this translation if you can
- Yámana: kačóin
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
- Yup'ik: please add this translation if you can
- Zazaki: midye tasek
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
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