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سلحفاة

Reikšmė (Anglų k.)

turtle
(abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) ellipsis of سُلَحْفَاة بَرِّيَّة (sulaḥfā(t) barriyya, “tortoise”)

سَلاحِف

سُلَحْفَاة

χελώνα

tortue terrestre

χελώνια

tortuga

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Dažnis

Tariamas kaip (IPA)

/su.laħ.faːh/

Probably derived from an unattested Aramaic form akin to Classical Syriac ܣܠܘܦܝܬܐ (sallōp̄īṯā), from Akkadian 𒃻𒅮𒈾 (šeleppûm, “turtle, snake; a shell, egg, canister”). Distortion of the Akkadian form in either Aramaic or Arabic after native roots such as س ل ح (s l ḥ), س ل خ (s l ḵ), and ز ح ل (z ḥ l) is likely, as with many terms for organisms encountered only at special occasions (see exemplarily Russian берескле́т (beresklét, “spindle tree”)); Arabic vernaculars offer forms like سُحَلْفَاة (suḥalfāh), زُلَحْفَاة (zulaḥfāh), زَحَلْفَة (zaḥalfa) and زِلَحْفَة (zilaḥfa). Compare the variants of سَرَطَان (saraṭān, “crab”) for a similar case.