سیوری سیكك
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Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]From سیوری (sivri, “sharp”) + سیڭك (siñek, “fly”).
Noun
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: sivrisinek
- → Middle Armenian: սիվրի սինակ (sivri sinak), սիվրի սինէկ (sivri sinēk)
- Armenian: սիվրիսինէկ (sivrisinēk)
- →⇒ Bulgarian: сивири́сница (sivirísnica)
- → Laz: სივრისინეღი (sivrisineği)
- → Serbo-Croatian: сиври сѝнек / sivri sìnek
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sivrisinek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4268
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سیوری سیكك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], 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[2], Vienna, column 307
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سیوری سیكك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 2643
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سیوری سیكك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1104