صرصار

From صَرْصَرَ (ṣarṣara, “to squeak”), due to the animal’s sound, or the reverse, and the animal-name may be borrowed from Aramaic צרצרא / ܨܪܨܪܐ (/⁠ṣarṣārā⁠/), ܨܪܨܘܪܐ (ṣarṣōrā), as this name isn’t even attested in South Semitic.

• IPA^(key): /sˤir.sˤaːr/

صِرْصَار or صَرْصَار • (ṣirṣār or ṣarṣār) m (plural صَرَاصِير (ṣarāṣīr))

1. cockroach

   Synonyms: صُرْصُور (ṣurṣūr), صُرْصُر (ṣurṣur)

2. cricket

   Synonyms: صُرْصُور (ṣurṣūr), صُرْصُر (ṣurṣur)

• IPA^(key): /sˤar.sˤaːr/, /sˤir.sˤaːr/

صَرْصَار or صِرْصَار • (ṣarṣār or ṣirṣār) m (plural صَرَاصِير (ṣarāṣīr))

1. Nonstandard form of صَلْصَال (ṣalṣāl, “argil”)

• Baalbaki, Rohi (1995) “صرصار”, in Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary, 7th edition, Beirut: Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, →ISBN
• Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “صرصار”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “صرصار”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
• Militarev, Alexander, Kogan, Leonid (2005) “*ṣarṣar-, *ṣarṣūr- ~ *c̣arṣar-, *c̣arṣūr-”, in Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volume II: Animal Names, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 277–278 Nr. 213, with another dubiously related item meaning “cricket” Militarev, Alexander, Kogan, Leonid (2005) “*nVṣVr- ~ *nVc̣Vr-”, in Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volume II: Animal Names, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, page 222 Nr. 167. They also wrongly claim that Hebrew צִלָצַל (ṣəlāṣal, “locust, cricket”) – to be paired with צַרְצוּר (ṣarṣūr) and צְרָצַר (ṣərāṣar, “cricket”) – is doubtfully related as the correspondence is “irregular”. The variation is confirmed by Jewish Palestinian Aramaic צלצל (“to clap”) against Classical Syriac ܨܪܨܪ (“to make a cricket sound”), Arabic صَلْصَلَ (ṣalṣala) against صَرْصَرَ (ṣarṣara), and by unrelated صَرْصَار (ṣarṣār, “argil”) for صَلْصَال (ṣalṣāl).
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “صرصار”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
• “ṣlṣl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “ṣlṣl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “ṣrṣr”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “ṣrṣwr”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–

See Arabic صِرْصَار (ṣirṣār).

• IPA^(key): /sˤur.sˤaːr/

صرصار • (ṣurṣār) m (plural صراصير (ṣaraṣīr))

1. cockroach