صیچان

Ottoman Turkish

صیچان

Alternative forms

  • سچان‎ (sıçan)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sïčgan (“mouse”) and thus related to صیچمق‎ (sıçmak, “to defecate”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰽𐰲𐰍𐰭‎ (sïčgan), Azerbaijani siçan, Bashkir сысҡан (sısqan), Chuvash шӑши (šăš̬i), Kazakh тышқан (tyşqan), Kyrgyz чычкан (çıçkan), Turkmen syçan, Uyghur چاشقان‎ (chashqan) and Uzbek sichqon.

Noun

صیچان • (sıçan)

  1. mouse, any small rodent of the genus Mus
    Synonyms: فار‎ (far), موش‎ (muş)

Derived terms

  • اورمان صیچانی‎ (orman sıçanı, “common vole”)
  • ترلا صیچانی‎ (tarla sıçanı, “field mouse”)
  • خرما صیچانی‎ (“kind of squirrel”)
  • سیوری صیچان‎ (sivri sıçan, “shrew”)
  • صو صیچانی‎ (su sıçanı, “water vole”)
  • صیچان اوتی‎ (sıçan otu, “white arsenic”)
  • صیچان دریسی‎ (sıçan derisi, “moleskin”)
  • صیچان قولاغی‎ (sıçan kulağı, “mouse-ear”)
  • صیچانجیل‎ (sıçancıl, “kite”)
  • طاغ صیچانی‎ (dağ sıçanı, “marmot”)
  • كوزسز صیچان‎ (gözsüz sıçan, “mole”)
  • چول صیچانی‎ (çöl sıçanı, “jerboa”)
  • یر صیچانی‎ (yer sıçanı, “mole”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: sıçan
  • → Serbo-Croatian: sičan

Further reading

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