صڭسار

Ottoman Turkish

صڭسار

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *saġsar (“marten”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (saġsar), Azerbaijani sansar, Bashkir һыуһар (hıwhar), Kazakh сусар (susar), Kyrgyz суусар (suusar), Southern Altai суузар (suuzar) and Uzbek suvsar.

Noun

صڭسار • (sañsar)

  1. marten, especially the beech marten, a carnivorous mammal of the species Martes foina

Derived terms

  • قیر صڭساری (kır sañsarı, “polecat”)
  • مصر صڭساری (Mısır sañsarı, “ichneumon”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: sansar
  • → Arabic: سَنْسَار (sansār)
  • → Armenian: սամսար (samsar)
  • → Bulgarian: сансар (sansar)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Latin script: sànsār
    Cyrillic script: сӑнса̄р

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