Mücke

See also: mucke and Mucke

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German mücke, mügge, mucke, mugge, from Old High German mucka, mugga, from Proto-West Germanic *muggjā, from Proto-Germanic *mugjō, *muwō (“midge”), from Proto-Indo-European *mū- (“fly, midge”), *mu-, *mew-.

Compare Dutch mug, Low German Mügg, Mügge, English midge, Danish myg, Latin musca.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmʏkə/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʏkə

Noun

Mücke f (genitive Mücke, plural Mücken, diminutive Mückchen n or Mücklein n)

  1. (biology) insect of the order Nematocera, that is a mosquito, crane fly, gnat, or midge
  2. (in practice especially) mosquito
    Synonyms: Stechmücke, (Austria) Gelse, (south-western Germany) Schnake, (chiefly tropical kinds) Moskito
  3. (regional, Austria, parts of Southern Germany) fly

Usage notes
  • Mücke is most often understood as a blood-sucking mosquito in northern and central Germany, though this is mainly because this kind is more annoying and therefore more often talked about. Generally the term includes all of the “Nematocera”. The further inclusion of flies is restricted to Austrian Standard German and southern German vernaculars.

Declension
Declension of Mücke [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Mücke die Mücken
genitive einer der Mücke der Mücken
dative einer der Mücke den Mücken
accusative eine die Mücke die Mücken

Derived terms

Further reading
  • “Mücke” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Mücke” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “Mücke” in Duden online
  • Mücke on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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