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Mongolian
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Mongolic *siri- (“to quilt”).
Cognate with Buryat шэрэхэ (šerexe) and Kalmyk ширх (şirx).
Verb
ширэх • (širex)
- (transitive) to quilt
Etymology 2
Inherited from Proto-Mongolic *siri- (“to melt”).
Verb
ширэх • (širex)
- (transitive) to melt, smelt
Further reading
- Большой академический монгольско–русский словарь в четырех томах [Great Academic Mongolian–Russian Dictionary in four volumes] (in Russian), Institute of Language and Literature of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences & Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2001, page 1639
- ширэх in Bolor tolʹ
- “ширэх”, in Монгол хэлний их тайлбар толь [Dictionary of the Mongolian Language] (in Mongolian), Institute of Linguistics of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 2016–present
- “ширэх”, in Монгол хэлний их тайлбар толь [Dictionary of the Mongolian Language] (in Mongolian), Institute of Linguistics of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 2016–present