سمور

Arabic

سَمُّورَة

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Persian smwl (*samōr, “sable”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sam.muːr/

Noun

سَمُّور • (sammūr) m (collective, singulative سَمُّورَة f (sammūra), plural سَمَامِير (samāmīr))

1. sable, marten

Declension

Declension of noun سَمُّور (sammūr)

Collective	basic collective triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سَمُّور sammūr	السَّمُّور as-sammūr	سَمُّور sammūr
Nominative	سَمُّورٌ sammūrun	السَّمُّورُ as-sammūru	سَمُّورُ sammūru
Accusative	سَمُّورًا sammūran	السَّمُّورَ as-sammūra	سَمُّورَ sammūra
Genitive	سَمُّورٍ sammūrin	السَّمُّورِ as-sammūri	سَمُّورِ sammūri
Singulative	singulative triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سَمُّورَة sammūra	السَّمُّورَة as-sammūra	سَمُّورَة sammūrat
Nominative	سَمُّورَةٌ sammūratun	السَّمُّورَةُ as-sammūratu	سَمُّورَةُ sammūratu
Accusative	سَمُّورَةً sammūratan	السَّمُّورَةَ as-sammūrata	سَمُّورَةَ sammūrata
Genitive	سَمُّورَةٍ sammūratin	السَّمُّورَةِ as-sammūrati	سَمُّورَةِ sammūrati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سَمُّورَتَيْن sammūratayn	السَّمُّورَتَيْن as-sammūratayn	سَمُّورَتَيْ sammūratay
Nominative	سَمُّورَتَانِ sammūratāni	السَّمُّورَتَانِ as-sammūratāni	سَمُّورَتَا sammūratā
Accusative	سَمُّورَتَيْنِ sammūratayni	السَّمُّورَتَيْنِ as-sammūratayni	سَمُّورَتَيْ sammūratay
Genitive	سَمُّورَتَيْنِ sammūratayni	السَّمُّورَتَيْنِ as-sammūratayni	سَمُّورَتَيْ sammūratay
Paucal (3-10)	sound feminine paucal
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سَمُّورَات sammūrāt	السَّمُّورَات as-sammūrāt	سَمُّورَات sammūrāt
Nominative	سَمُّورَاتٌ sammūrātun	السَّمُّورَاتُ as-sammūrātu	سَمُّورَاتُ sammūrātu
Accusative	سَمُّورَاتٍ sammūrātin	السَّمُّورَاتِ as-sammūrāti	سَمُّورَاتِ sammūrāti
Genitive	سَمُّورَاتٍ sammūrātin	السَّمُّورَاتِ as-sammūrāti	سَمُّورَاتِ sammūrāti
Plural of variety	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سَمَامِير samāmīr	السَّمَامِير as-samāmīr	سَمَامِير samāmīr
Nominative	سَمَامِيرُ samāmīru	السَّمَامِيرُ as-samāmīru	سَمَامِيرُ samāmīru
Accusative	سَمَامِيرَ samāmīra	السَّمَامِيرَ as-samāmīra	سَمَامِيرَ samāmīra
Genitive	سَمَامِيرَ samāmīra	السَّمَامِيرِ as-samāmīri	سَمَامِيرِ samāmīri

Descendants

• → Spanish: zamarra, chamarra (possibly)
  • → Italian: zimarra
    • → Sicilian: cimarra
    • → French: simarre
      • → English: simar
  • → Old French: chamarre
    • → Middle English: chimere, chimer
      • English: chimere

Ottoman Turkish

سمور

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian سمور (samur, “sable”), from Middle Persian smwl (*samōr, “sable”).

Noun

سمور • (samur, semur)

1. sable, any carnivorous mammal of the species Martes zibellina and its pelt or fur

Derived terms

• آلا سمور (ala samur, “spotted sable”)
• سمور طرناغی (samur tırnağı, “sort of medicament”)
• سمور كورك (samur kürk, “fur coat made of sable”)
• صاری سمور (sarı samur, “pine marten”)
• صو سموری (su samuru, “otter”)
• مسك سموری (misk samuru, “mink”)

 

Descendants

Descendants

• Turkish: samur
• → Albanian: samur
• → Armenian: սամուր (samur), սամուռ (samuṙ)
• → Bulgarian: саму́р (samúr), съму́рь (sǎmúrʹ)
• → Byzantine Greek: σαμούριον (samoúrion)
  • → Greek: σαμούρι (samoúri)
  • → Old Church Slavonic: самꙋринъ (samurinŭ)
• → Crimean Tatar: samur / самур
• → Macedonian: самур (samur)
• → Romanian: samur
• → Serbo-Croatian: sàmūr / са̀мӯр

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “samur”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4052
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سمور”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 275b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سمور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 692
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mustela Scythica”, 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) “سمور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2676
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “samur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سمور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1079

Persian

Alternative forms

• صمور (samur)

Etymology

From Middle Persian smwl (*samōr); see there for further information.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [sa.ˈmoːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sä.móːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sä.móːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sä.móːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sä.mʊ́ːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæ.múːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sä.mɵ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	samōr
Dari reading?	samōr
Iranian reading?	samur
Tajik reading?	samür

Noun

سمور • (samôr)

1. sable

Derived terms

• سمور آبی (“otter”)

Descendants

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: սամուր (samur)
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: semûr

• → Malay: samur
• → Ottoman Turkish: سمور (samur)
  • Turkish: samur
  • → Albanian: samur
  • → Armenian: սամուր (samur), սամուռ (samuṙ)
  • → Bulgarian: саму́р (samúr), съму́рь (sǎmúrʹ)
  • → Byzantine Greek: σαμούριον (samoúrion)
    • → Greek: σαμούρι (samoúri)
    • → Old Church Slavonic: самꙋринъ (samurinŭ)
  • → Crimean Tatar: samur / самур
  • → Macedonian: самур (samur)
  • → Romanian: samur
  • → Serbo-Croatian: sàmūr / са̀мӯр
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਸਮੂਰ (samūr)

  Shahmukhi script: سمور (samūr)

• → Romani: samur
• → Turkmen: samyr / самыр

References

• Palatecʿi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) “սէմմուր”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʿ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 476b