صكسار

Ottoman Turkish

صڭسار

Alternative forms

• سانسار (sansar), سڭسار (sañsar)

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

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sansar1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4062
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سكسار”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 272a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صكنسار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 764
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mustela fenaria”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1109
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سكسار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2642
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sansar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صكنسار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1181