Middle Persian

Noun

smwl • ‎(*samōr)

1. sable (marten)

Descendants

Taking Middle Persian as representative for all Middle Iranian:

• Persian: سمور ‎(sammūr, samūr), صمور ‎(ṣamūr)
  • → Kurdish:

    Northern Kurdish: semûr

  • → Middle Armenian: սամուր ‎(samur)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: سمور ‎(samur)
    • Turkish: samur
    • → Albanian: samur
    • → Armenian: սամուր ‎(samur), սամուռ ‎(samuṙ)
    • → Bulgarian: саму́р ‎(samúr), съму́рь ‎(sǎmúrʹ)
    • → Byzantine Greek: σαμούριον ‎(samoúrion)
      • → Greek: σαμούρι ‎(samoúri)
      • → Old Church Slavonic: самѹринъ ‎(samurinŭ)
    • → Crimean Tatar: samur / самур
    • → Macedonian: самур ‎(samur)
    • → Romanian: samur
    • → Serbo-Croatian: sàmūr / са̀мӯр
  • → Romani: samur
  • → Turkmen: samyr / самыр
• → Arabic: سَمُّور ‎(sammūr)
  • → Spanish: zamarra, chamarra (possibly)
    • → Italian: zimarra
      • → Sicilian: cimarra
      • → French: simarre
        • → English: simar
    • → Old French: chamarre
      • → Middle English: chimere, chimer
        • English: chimere
• → Classical Syriac: ܣܡܘܪܐ ‎(sammūrā)
• → Georgian: სამური ‎(samuri), სიასამური ‎(siasamuri)
• → Hebrew: סַמּוּר ‎(sammûr)
• → Old Armenian: սամոյր ‎(samoyr)
  • Armenian: սամույր ‎(samuyr)

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 73
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “սամոյր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, page 168
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 236
• Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 1820, page 144b
• Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 232
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20) (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 266–267
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 440
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “samur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük