köken: Diminutive of an obsolete simplex frett, which is borrowed via Middle Dutch furet, fret from Old French furet, + -chen. Compare modern Dutch fret.
köken: From Old French furet, furret, from Vulgar Latin *fūrittus (literally “little thief”) (compare Italian furetto), diminutive of Latin fūr (“thief”). See also Old French fuiron (“weasel, ferret”), from Vulgar Latin *fūriō, fūriōnem, from Late Latin fūrō (“cat; robber”) (compare Portuguese furão), diminutive of Latin fūr (“thief”).
köken: From Vulgar Latin *furittum (“petty thief”), which is derived from Latin fūr (“thief”). Cognate to French furet (“ferret”), Sicilian furittu (“ferret”), Spanish hurón (“ferret”).
ferret (Mustela putorius furo) · meddler, ferreter · a hard-working person
çekim: çoğul furões
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese foron, from Late Latin fūrōnem (“thief”), from Classical Latin fūr (“thief”), from Proto-Italic *fōr (“thief”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰṓr (“thief”), which is derived from *bʰer- (“to carry”). Cognate with Galician furón, Spanish hurón, Catalan and Occitan fura, French furet, English ferret and Italian furetto.
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.