köken: From Middle French mesiraigne (16th c.), merisengne (15th c.), from Latin mūsarāneus, from Latin mūs (“mouse”) + arāneus (“spider-like”). So called because the bite of many shrews (e.g. Neomys fodiens) is venomous. According to the Trésor informatisé, the word is a borrowing from Latin, but the Middle French forms look by no means learned and could well be inherited. The modern -u- may be a…
shrew (any member of the Soricidae family of mammals) · vermin; small animal · face (exaggerated facial expression)
çekim: çoğul musarañas
köken: First attested in the 13th century. Inherited from Latin mūsarāneus (literally “spider mouse”) with the ending influenced by araña (“spider”), from mūs (“mouse”) + arāneus (“of or related to spiders”), because of the popular belief that shrews have a venomous bite akin to that of a spider. Cognate with French musaraigne.
aile: mirar las musarañas, pensar en las musarañas
Todos se rieron de sus musarañas.
İtalyancatoporagno, toporagno comune (eril) /ˌtɔ.poˈraɲ.ɲo/
köken: Compound of 尖り (togari, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 尖る togaru, “to be pointy or sharp”) + 鼠 (nezumi, “mouse, rat”).
köken: First attested in 1800. Encountered first in science writers, considered mediated by a transcription in scientific literature such as tsitskan or Zyzkan of a descendant of Proto-Turkic *sïčgan (“mouse”), but also close to Romanian chițcan (“shrew”). With Hungarian ending in analogy to other words like patkány (“rat”).