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 (cıckan), 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

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sıçan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4186
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سچان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 265a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صیچان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 777
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mus”, 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 1107
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سچان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2555
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sıçan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صیچان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1198