սվորիկ

Borrowed from Northern Kurdish sivorîk, siworîk, sivore (“squirrel”). First attested in 1621 in Rivola's dictionary, explained as "a small animal that preys on birds" and glossed with Lombard bellora (“weasel”). Doublet of սամույր (samuyr, “sable”).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [səvɔˈɾik]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [səvɔˈɾiɡ]

սվորիկ • (svorik) (traditional orthography spelling սուորիկ)

1. (Bitlis, Moks) squirrel, probably specifically Caucasian squirrel (Sciurus anomalus)

   Synonym: սկյուռ (skyuṙ)

Has also been incorrectly identified with the rabbit.

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1913), “սուորիկ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 980a, glosses with ճագար (čagar, “rabbit”) and is unaware of the origin
• Ayvazean, Tigran (1899), “սվորիկ”, in Baṙanmoyš [Sample of Words] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Tpagrutʿiwn Y. Mattʿēosean, page 32b
• Марр, Н. (1925), “По поводу русского слова "сало" в древнеармянском описании хазарской трапезы VII в. [Regarding the Russian word "сало" in a 7th century Old Armenian description of a Khazar meal]”, in Тексты и разыскания по кавказской филологии. Том 1 (in Russian), Leningrad: Academy Press, page 121 of 66–125
• Orbeli, I. A. (2002), “սըւորիկ”, in Словарь наречия Мокса [Dictionary of Moks Dialect] (Избранные труды в двух томах; II.1) (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 325
• Rivola, Francesco (1633), “սվորիկ”, in Baṙagirkʿ hayocʿ [Dictionarium Armeno-Latinum], first published in 1621 in Milan, 2nd edition, Paris: Impensis Societatis Typographicae Librorum Officii Ecclesiastici, page 343a
• Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2008), “սվորիկ”, in Hayocʿ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume V, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 389b