цыхцыр

Ossetian

Alternative forms

  • чухчур (ḱuxḱur) — Digor

Etymology

Borrowed from a Nakh language. Akin to Chechen чухчари (čuxčari). See also Karachay-Balkar чучхур (çuçxur).

Noun

цыхцыр • (cyxcyr)

  1. (Iron) water falling down the drain
    Synonym: цыхцырӕг (cyxcyræg)

References

  • Abajev, V. I. (1949), Осетинский язык и фольклор I [Ossetian Language and Folklore I]‎[1] (in Russian), Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 276
  • Abajev, V. I. (1958), Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 327-328
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