weasel (a mammal of the genus Mustela) · marten · opossum, possum (especially the white-eared opossum Didelphis Albiventris)
çekim: çoğul comadrejas
köken: From comadre (“midwife; godmother”) + -eja (diminutive suffix), said to be after its sinuous and nimble (and therefore “feminine”) figure. Compare equivalents in other Romance languages (Italian donnola, Portuguese doninha, Galician doniña, Romanian nevăstuică) but not only (Greek νυφίτσα (nyfítsa), Danish brud, Arabic اِبْن عِرْس (ibn ʕirs)).
weasel, specifically a Siberian weasel, Mustela sibirica.
köken: First attested in the Dong'ui bogam (東醫寶鑑 / 동의보감), 1613, as Early Modern Korean 죡져비 (Yale: cyokcyepi). Ultimately from *죡져 (*jokjeo, “weasel”) + 피(皮) (pi, “leather, skin”). The first component, *족져, was likely borrowed from a Tungusic language through trade. Compare Udihe čokči (“weasel”), Oroch čokčui (“polecat”), and Manchu ᡧᠣᠰᡳᡴᡳ (šosiki, “chipmunk”). The semantic broadening of "animal's skin"…
köken: From lumi (“snow”) + -ikko. The name is probably derived from the white winter fur of the animal, and the fact that it is quite rare to see it in the summer.
köken: From nevastă + -uică, probably based on a superstitious euphemism. Calque of Bulgarian невестулка (nevestulka), Ottoman Turkish كلینجك (gelincik) or Greek νυφίτσα (nyfítsa). Similar words can also be found throughout the Mediterranean: Italian donnola, Portuguese doninha, Spanish comadreja.