մկռոշ

Armenian
Sciurus anomalus, spotted near Borjomi, Georgia

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps contains մուկ (muk, “mouse”).

Noun

մկռոշ • (mkṙoš) (Ghazakh)

  1. Caucasian squirrel (Sciurus anomalus)
    Synonyms: (literary) պարսկական սկյուռ (parskakan skyuṙ), (literary) կովկասյան սկյուռ (kovkasyan skyuṙ)
    Hypernym: սկյուռ (skyuṙ)

Alternative forms
  • մըք(ը)ռօշ (məkʻ(ə)ṙōš), մուկ(ը)ռօշ (muk(ə)ṙōš) — Karabakh, dialectological notation

References
  • կովկասյան սկյուռ on the Armenian Wikipedia.Wikipedia hy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “մկռօշ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, pages 785–786
  • Огнёв, С. И. (1940) Звери СССР и прилежащих стран (Звери восточной Европы и Северной Азии), volume IV, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 422, transcribes as мкрош
  • Sargsyan, Armen Yu. (2013) “մըք(ը)ռօշ”, in Ġarabaġi barbaṙi baṙaran [Dictionary of Karabakh Dialect] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, →ISBN, page 518b
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2007), “մկռոշ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 65a
  • Сатунин, К. А. (1920) Млекопитающие кавказского края‎, volume II, Tiflis: State Press, page 49, transcribes as мкрошъ
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