سیوری سیڭك

Ottoman Turkish

سیوری سیڭك

Etymology

From سیوری (sivri, “sharp”) + سیڭك (siñek, “fly”).

Noun

سیوری سیڭك • (sivri siñek)

  1. mosquito, any small flying insect of the family Culicidae
    Synonyms: بعوض (baʿuz), پشه (peşe)

Descendants

  • Turkish: sivrisinek
  • → Middle Armenian: սիվրի սինակ (sivri sinak), սիվրի սինէկ (sivri sinēk)
  • →⇒ Bulgarian: сивири́сница (sivirísnica)
  • → Laz: სივრისინეღი (sivrisineği)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: сиври сѝнек / sivri sìnek

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sivrisinek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4268
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سیوری سیڭك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 708
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Culex”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 307
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سیوری سیڭك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2643
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سیوری سیڭك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1104
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