मूष्

From Proto-Indo-European *múh₂s (“mouse”). Cognate with Latin mūs, Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Persian موش (muš), Old Church Slavonic мꙑшь (myšĭ), Old English mūs (English mouse).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /múːʂ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /muːʂ/

मूष् • (mū́ṣ) stem, m or f

1. (literally) mouse
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.105.8:

     सं मा तपन्त्यभितः सपत्नीरिव पर्शवः ।
     मूषो न शिश्ना व्यदन्ति माध्य स्तोतारं ते शतक्रतो वित्तं मे अस्य रोदसी ॥

     saṃ mā tapantyabhitaḥ sapatnīriva parśavaḥ.
     mūṣo na śiśnā vyadanti mādhya stotāraṃ te śatakrato vittaṃ me asya rodasī.

     Like rival wives, on every side, enclosing ribs oppress me sore.
     O Śatakratu, biting cares devour me, singer of thy praise, like mice devour the weaver's threads. Mark this my woe, ye Earth and Heaven.

2. (figuratively) "stealer", "thief" (literal meaning from verbal root √muṣ)

• मूष (mūṣa)
• मूषक (mūṣaka)
• मूषण (mūṣaṇa)
• मूषिक (mūṣika)
• मूषी (mūṣī)
• मुष्क (muṣka)

• Monier Williams (1899) “मूष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 827.