muguet

Borrowed from French muguet.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [muˈɣɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [muˈɣət]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [muˈɣet]

muguet m (plural muguets)

1. (botany) lily of the valley

   Synonym: lliri de maig

2. (pathology) thrush (oral candidiasis)

• “muguet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Old French muguete, muguede (as in nois muguete (“nutmeg”)), from Latin muscāta, feminine of muscātus (“musky”), from Ancient Greek μόσχος (móskhos), from Middle Persian mwšk' (/⁠*mušk⁠/, “musk”), ultimately from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka, “testicle”), the shape of the gland being similar.

• IPA^(key): /my.ɡɛ/

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muguet m (plural muguets)

1. lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis)
2. (medicine) thrush (oral yeast infection, oral candidiasis)

   Synonyms: candidose, blanchet

3. (dated) dandy

• → Catalan: muguet
• → Turkish: müge

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