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Middle Persian

Etymology

The origin is uncertain.

Related to Northern Kurdish sivore, Central Kurdish سیمۆرە (sîmore), Zazaki sımore (“squirrel”), Parthian σίμωρ (símōr, “a kind of fur-bearing field-mouse”), Armenian սվորիկ (svorik, “squirrel; earlier possibly a kind of weasel”), and Sanskrit समूर (samūra, “a kind of animal prized for its fur, perhaps the sable”). Mayrhofer considers the latter to be borrowed directly from Iranian, perhaps Parthian.

According to some, we are dealing with a word of Turkic origin. But this is rejected by Doerfer, because the Turkic words are themselves borrowed from Persian, being present exclusively in Persian-influenced Turkic languages.

According to Wikander (apud Mayrhofer) the word is ultimately of "Central Asian" origin.

Old East Slavic соболь (sobolĭ), the source of the European words for “sable”, including English sable, may somehow be related.

Noun

smwl • (*samōr)

  1. sable (marten)

Descendants

Taking Middle Persian as representative for all Middle Iranian:

References

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  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “samur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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