سیوری صیچان
Ottoman Turkish
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سیوری صیچان
Etymology
From سیوری (sivri, “sharp-pointed”) + صیچان (sıçan, “mouse”).
Noun
سیوری صیچان • (sivri sıçan)
- 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