different between sies vs sise

English

Etymology 1

From Afrikaans

Interjection

sies

1. (South Africa) Expressing disgust, disappointment, or annoyance.
   • 2008, William Higham, Nakada's Touch (page 316)

     'Sies, man,' a voice said. 'You're a domkop. How you gonna see 'em?'

   • 2011, Niq Mhlongo, After Tears (page 13)

     “Sies, man!” she said to herself. “Where are the men of this house? Is anybody home?”

Etymology 2

Verb

sies

1. simple past tense and past participle of sie

Noun

sies

1. plural of sie

Anagrams

• -esis, seis, sise

German

Alternative forms

• sie's

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zi?s/
• Hyphenation: sies

Contraction

sies

1. Contraction of sie es.

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?s/

Adjective

sies

1. sweet

Derived terms

• Siesichkeet
• Sieskartoffel
• Siesransch

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin sex.

Adjective

sies

1. six

Noun

sies m (uncountable)

1. six

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??s/

Etymology 1

From Arabic ?????? (?as?s). The plural form by analogy with certain other monosyllabic nouns with the vowel -ie-, such as bieb or wied. Compare Moroccan Arabic ???? (s?s).

Noun

sies m (plural sisien)

1. foundation, basis

Etymology 2

From Arabic ????? (s?sa, “to lead, direct”) with semantic shift from leading to being led.

Verb

sies (imperfect jsus)

1. (with wara) to follow persistently, to tail after

Conjugation

• The perfect tense is highly archaic and not part of contemporary standard Maltese. It is replaced with kien + imperfect.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

sies

1. passive form of si

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English chess.

Noun

sies m (uncountable, not mutable)

1. chess

Synonyms

• gwyddbwyll

English

Etymology 1

See sice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?s/
• Homophone: sice

Noun

sise (plural sises)

1. (obsolete, dice games) six

   • In the new casting of a die, when ace is on the top, sise must needs be at the bottom.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?z/
• Homophone: size

Noun

sise (plural sises)

1. (obsolete) An assize.

Anagrams

• -esis, -sies, seis, sies

Chuukese

Etymology

si- +? -se

Pronoun

sise

1. we (inclusive) do not

Adjective

sise

1. we (inclusive) are not
2. we (inclusive) were not

Related terms

French

Adjective

sise

1. feminine singular of sis

Irish

Etymology

Synchronically, sí +? -se.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????/

Pronoun

sise (conjunctive)

1. emphatic form of sí

   she, it

See also

Middle Dutch

Contraction

sise

1. Contraction of si se.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

sise

1. Alternative form of syse (“size, assize”)

Etymology 2

Noun

sise

1. Alternative form of syse (“varnish”)

Spanish

Verb

sise

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of sisar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of sisar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of sisar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of sisar.

Turkish

Noun

sise

1. dative singular of sis