تیون

Ottoman Turkish

تیون

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tegiŋ (squirrel); cognate with Bashkir тейен (teyen), Kazakh тиін (tiın), Kyrgyz: тыйын (tıyın), Tatar тиен (tiyen), Uyghur تىيىن (tiyin), Uzbek tiyin and Yakut тииҥ (tiiñ).

Noun

تیون • (teyun, teyün, teyin)

  1. squirrel, a tree-dwelling rodent in the family Sciuridae
    Synonym: سنجاب (sincab)

Derived terms

  • قزل تیون (kızıl teyun, red squirrel)
  • قورشونی تیون (kurşuni teyun, grey squirrel)
  • قویو تیون (koyu teyun, dark-grey squirrel)

Descendants

Further reading

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