մկռոշ

Armenian

Sciurus anomalus, spotted near Borjomi, Georgia

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps contains մուկ (muk, “mouse”).

Noun

մկռոշ • (mkṙoš) (Ghazakh)

1. Caucasian squirrel (Sciurus anomalus)

   Synonyms: (literary) պարսկական սկյուռ (parskakan skyuṙ), (literary) կովկասյան սկյուռ (kovkasyan skyuṙ)

   Hypernym: սկյուռ (skyuṙ)

Alternative forms

• մըք(ը)ռօշ (məkʻ(ə)ṙōš), մուկ(ը)ռօշ (muk(ə)ṙōš) — Karabakh, dialectological notation

References

• կովկասյան սկյուռ on the Armenian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^hy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “մկռօշ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, pages 785–786
• Огнёв, С. И. (1940) Звери СССР и прилежащих стран (Звери восточной Европы и Северной Азии), volume IV, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 422, transcribes as мкрош
• Sargsyan, Armen Yu. (2013) “մըք(ը)ռօշ”, in Ġarabaġi barbaṙi baṙaran [Dictionary of Karabakh Dialect] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, →ISBN, page 518b
• Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2007), “մկռոշ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 65a
• Сатунин, К. А. (1920) Млекопитающие кавказского края‎^[1], volume II, Tiflis: State Press, page 49, transcribes as мкрошъ