صیچانجیل

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From صیچان (sıçan, “mouse”) +‎ ـجیل (-cil).

Noun

صیچانجیل • (sıçancıl)

1. kite, a medium-sized bird of prey in the genus Milvus

   Synonym: چایلاق (çaylak)

Descendants

• Turkish: sıçancıl

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sıçancıl”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4647
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صیچانجیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1198