սիվրիսինէկ

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish سیوری سینك (sivri sinek).

Pronunciation

Noun

սիվրիսինէկ (sivrisinēk) (Istanbul, traditional orthography)

  1. mosquito
    Synonym: մոծակ (mocak)

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1902), սիվրիսինէկ”, in Tʿurkʿerēni azdecʿutʿiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʿurkʿerēnē pʿoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žołovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʿeamb Vani, Łarabałi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 320
  • Riggs, Elias (1847), սիվրի սինէկ”, in A Vocabulary of Words Used in Modern Armenian But Not Found in the Ancient Armenian Lexicons, Smyrna: W. Griffitt, page 130b
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