سیوری صیچان

Ottoman Turkish
سیوری صیچان

Etymology

From سیوری (sivri, “sharp-pointed”) +‎ صیچان (sıçan, “mouse”).

Noun

سیوری صیچان • (sivri sıçan)

  1. shrew, any small rodent of the family Soricidae

Further reading
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mus araneus”, 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 1107
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سیوری صیچان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2556
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سیوری صیچان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1198
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