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The word “hamster” originates from Russian or Lithuanian, the Russian “chomiak” and Lithuanian “staras,” which then went into Slavic languages as “chomestoru” and then the Germanic “hamastra.” The former English word for hamster was “German rat.” Hamsters themselves may have originated from North Africa, but currently only reside in Eurasia.
