صو سموری

Ottoman Turkish

صو سموری

Etymology

From صو (su, “water”) + سمور (samur, “sable”).

Noun

صو سموری • (su samuru)

1. otter, any aquatic, carnivorous mammal in the subfamily Lutrinae

Descendants

• Turkish: su samuru

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “su samuru”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4339
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صو سموری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 692
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lutra”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 985
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صو سموری”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2996
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صو سموری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1079