سیوری سیكك

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)
  • Armenian: սիվրիսինէկ (sivrisinēk)
• →⇒ 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 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