siŋäk

Meaning:
fly, gnat; insect

The etymology of siŋäk is disputed. One traditional analysis interprets it as a diminutive formation from the onomatopoeic siŋ “buzz, hum”.

In modern languages

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Language Cognate
Turkmen siňek
Turkish (Azerbaijan) sinək This cognate is attested, but has fallen out of use in this language.
Turkish (Türkiye) sinek
Salar sinik
Gagauz sinek
Crimean sinek
Uyghur The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Uzbek The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Kazakh The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Nogai The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Siberian Tatar The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Kyrgyz The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Altai seek
Alan The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Kumyk The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Tatar The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Bashkir The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Tıva seek
Khakas seek
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Khalaj The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Chuvash šăna

Examples

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Translations

German:
Fliege, Mücke; Insekt
Russian:
муха, мошка; насекомое
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
milçək, mığmığa; həşərat
Turkish (Türkiye):
sinek, tatarcık; böcek

  • Dr. Jens Wilkens (2021) Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen: Altuigurisch – Deutsch – Türkisch | Eski Uygurcanın El Sözlüğü: Eski Uygurca – Almanca – Türkçe p. 615
    siŋäk Fliege, Insekt || sinek, böcek
  • Sergei Starostin, Anna Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003) Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages p. 1296
    *sŋV(-kV) a k. of flying insect: Tung. *süŋke; Mong. *simaɣul; Turk. *siŋek; Jpn. *sáimì ( ~ -ia-). PTung. *süŋke beetle (жук): Nan. suŋkẽ; Ud. siŋke. ◊ ТМС 2, 91. PMong. *simaɣul 1 mosquito 2 insect (1 комар 2 насекомое): MMong. šimu’ul (HY 12), šimul ‘fly’ (MA); WMong. simaɣul, simuɣul 1, 2 (L 710); Kh. šumūl 1; Bur. šumūl 2; Kalm. šomūl, šumūsn; Ord. šimūli; Dag. šomōl (Тод. Даг. 184) šomōle (MD. 217) 1. ◊ KW 364. PTurk. *siŋek 1 mosquito 2 fly (1 комар 2 муха): Karakh. siŋek 1,2 (MK); Tur. sinek 2; Gag. sinek 2; Az. sinäk 1; Turkm. siŋek 2; MTurk. siŋak, siŋgek 2 (Pav. C.); Krm. sinek 2; SUygh. sɨŋgek ‘gad-fly’; Khak. sik, sēk 2; Oyr. sēk 1; Tv. sēk 2; Chuv. šъna 2. ◊ EDT 838, VEWT 422-423, Лексика 185, ЭСТЯ 7. Cf. also Yak., Dolg. ɨŋɨrɨa ‘bee, wasp’ (Stachowski 261). Turk. > Hung. szunyog ‘mosquito’, see Gombocz 1912. PJpn. *sáimì ( ~ -ia-) cicada (цикада): OJpn. semji; MJpn. sémì; Tok. sèmi; Kyo. sémì; Kag. sémi. ◊ JLTT 521. The tone in Tokyo is irregular (pointing to *sáimí). ‖ Мудрак Дисс. 42-43, Лексика 186. An insect name, with tabooistic irregular vocalic changes.
  • Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 838
    siŋek ‘a buzzing insect’ of various kinds; Dim. f. of the onomatopoeic siŋ; survives only in SW Az. sinek; Tkm. siŋek ‘mosquito’ and Osm. sinek (siŋek) ‘fly’; sivri sinek ‘mosquito’; elsewhere displaced by çıbın (first noted in Xak. xi KB 4499) Cf. uyaz. Uyğ. viii ff. Bud. (in a list of noxious animals and insects; beasts with tusks and claws, birds) siŋek (mantises, ants, beetles) U II 35, 23: Xak. xi siŋek in the language of townspeople (ahlu’l-amṣār) ‘a gnat’ (al-baqq), and in the language of the nomads (ahlu’l-wabar) ‘a fly’ (al-dubāb) Kaş. III 367; o.o. siŋe:k al-baʿūḍ ‘gnat’ II 13, 23; II 352 (yelpit-); III 100 (yelpiş-): (xiv Muh.(?) al-dubāb si:gek (MS. si:kek) in one MS. Mel. 74, 8): Çağ. xv ff. siŋek (spelt, ‘with -ŋ-’) paşşa ‘gnat’; in Ar. baqq and baʿūḍ San. 258r. 12: Xwar. xiv ditto MN 12: Tkm. xiii al-dubāb siŋek (spelt siŋek; Kip. çıbın) Hou. 10, 11: xiv al-dubāb (çıbın; also called) siŋe:k Bul. 10, 16: xv nāmūs ‘gnat, mosquito’ siŋek (/uyaz) Tuh. 36b. 3: Osm. xviii siŋek ... and, in Rūmī, makas ‘fly’; paşşa sivri siŋek San. 258r. 14.
  • M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen pp. 422–423
    siŋäk mtü. čag. MA. trkm. siŋäk ‘Fliege’, ‘Mücke’, osm. krm. sinäk ‘Fliege’, leb. sǟk ‘Sandfliege’, sag. usw. sǟk ‘Geschmeiss’, saryγ s. ‘Mücke’, soj. sēk ‘муха’, čuv. šə̑na ‘Fliege’ (> čer. ČLČ 207 šə̑ŋa, šγŋgɯ̭̀ ung. BTLU 126 szunyog); čuv. šə̑na-lūk ‘Schlafdach’ (> čer. šə̑ŋalə̑k, šγŋgälək) LTS 199