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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?k?/
• Homophone: seeker (non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From Japanese ? (shika, “deer”)

Noun

sika (plural sikas or sika)

1. Cervus nippon, a deer found in the forests of East Asia

Alternative forms

• Sika

Translations

Etymology 2

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

sika (plural sikas or sika)

1. A traditional Bangladeshi hanging basket

Usage notes

• Often italicized as a foreign borrowing.

Further reading

• Sika Deer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cervus nippon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Cervus nippon on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• AKIs, KIAs, Saki, aiks, saki

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sika/
• Hyphenation: si?ka
• Rhymes: -ika

Adjective

sika (accusative singular sikan, plural sikaj, accusative plural sikajn)

1. Sikh

Related terms

• siko

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *cika. Cognate with Estonian siga, Livonian sig?, Võro tsiga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sik?/, [?s?ik?]
• Rhymes: -ik?
• Syllabification: si?ka

Noun

sika

1. pig, swine
2. Synonym of sianliha (“pork”)
3. (derogatory) pig, swine (term for a person)
4. (derogatory, slang) police officer

Declension

Synonyms

• (person) sikailija

Derived terms

See also

• sika-
• emakko
• karju
• porsas
• possu

Anagrams

• -ksia, aski, kasi, kisa

Garo

Verb

sika

1. to sew

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto seka, French sec, Italian secco, Spanish seco, ultimately from Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-. The initial e was changed to i so not to interfere with sekar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sika/

Adjective

sika

1. dry (not wet)

   Antonyms: aquoza, humida

Ilocano

Etymology 1

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /?si.ka/
• Hyphenation: si?ka

Noun

síka (plural siksika)

1. dysentery, diarrhea

   Synonym: buris

Derived terms

• agsika

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Proto-Austronesian *si and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ka.

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /si?ka/

Pronoun

siká

1. Second-person singular absolutive independent pronoun; you

Derived terms

• siksika

See also

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *cika. Cognates include Finnish sika and Estonian siga.

Pronunciation

• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /?sik?/
• (Ylä-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /??i??/ (phonemic spelling: šiga)
• Hyphenation: si?ka

Noun

sika (genitive sian, partitive sikkaa)

1. pig

Declension

References

• V. I. Junus (1936) I?oran Keelen Grammatikka?^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 59
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 523
• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[3], page 162
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachinkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: ??????? ?? ????????? ??????^[4], ?ISBN, page 82

Lingala

Adverb

sika

1. now, current

Miskito

Noun

sika

1. medicine

Northern Ndebele

Verb

-sika^?

1. to cut

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

sika (present tense sik or sikar or siker, past tense seik or sika or sikt, supine sike or sika or sikt, past participle siken or sika or sikt, present participle sikande, imperative sik)

1. Alternative form of sike

Noun

sika

1. definite singular of sik f
2. definite plural of sik n

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i.ka/

Verb

sika

1. third-person singular present of sika?

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *cika. Cognate with Finnish sika, Estonian siga, Võro tsiga.

Noun

sika (genitive sigaa, partitive [please provide])

1. pig

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

• "sika" in Vadja keele sõnaraamat

Xhosa

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

-síka

1. (transitive) to cut

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Zulu

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

-síka

1. (transitive) to cut
2. (transitive) to imitate, to mimic

   Synonym: -lingisa

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “sika”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “sika (3.9)”

English

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek ????? (simós, “bent upwards”)

Noun

sima (plural simas)

1. (architecture) The upturned edge of a roof which acts as a gutter; a cyma.

Etymology 2

Blend of silicon +? magnesium

Noun

sima (uncountable)

1. (geology) The lower layer of the earth's outer crust that underlies the sial and is rich in silica, iron, and magnesium.

See also

• Si
• sial
• nife
• KREEP

Translations

Anagrams

• AMIs, Amis, ISAM, Isam, M'sia, MIAs, Masi, Sami, Siam, Sámi, aims, saim, siam

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: si?ma

Noun

sima

1. a barb; a fluke

Derived terms

• sima-sima

Ese

Noun

sima

1. needle (usually made from flying fox bone)

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *saimaz (compare German Seim (“syrup”), Old Norse seimr (“honeycomb”)). The original meaning was “mead”, but the common meaning now refers to a different beverage, albeit one that is ultimately developed from mead.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sim?/, [?s?im?]
• Rhymes: -im?
• Syllabification: si?ma

Noun

sima

1. a nonalcoholic or low-alcohol drink made from lemon, various sugars and water, common around vappu (May Day)
2. (dated) mead

Declension

Synonyms

• (mead): hunajaviini

Anagrams

• Sami, Siam, amis, masi, siam

Garo

Noun

sima

1. rotten food

Hungarian

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Either derived from regional simik (“to slide”), or from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??im?]
• Hyphenation: si?ma
• Rhymes: -m?

Adjective

sima (comparative simább, superlative legsimább)

1. smooth, sleek (having a texture that lacks friction)

   Antonym: érdes
2. flat, even, smooth (of land, road or ground, lacking elevations or protuberances)

   Antonyms: hepehupás, göröngyös
3. smooth (of a body of water, without ripples or waves)
4. smooth (pleasant to the senses, especially of sounds or tastes)
5. plain (not having any pattern, print or decoration)
6. blank (of paper, without any printed grid or lines)

   Coordinate terms: négyzethálós, kockás, vonalas
7. plain, regular, ordinary (out of several varieties, the basic one without anything extra)
8. continuous, smooth, unbroken (of a motion, without interruption)
9. (figuratively) smooth, simple, easy (without difficulty, problems or unexpected incidents)
10. (knitting) knit (of a stitch, passing through the previous loop from below, creating a V-shape)

    Antonym: fordított

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• sima in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Jamamadí

Noun

sima

1. (Banawá) sister

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Latin

Adjective

s?ma

1. nominative feminine singular of s?mus
2. nominative neuter plural of s?mus
3. accusative neuter plural of s?mus
4. vocative feminine singular of s?mus
5. vocative neuter plural of s?mus

Adjective

s?m?

1. ablative feminine singular of s?mus

References

• sima in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sima in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• sima in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[6]
• sima in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *s?mô (“rope, cord”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh?i- (“to tie, bind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?.m?/

Noun

s?ma m

1. cord, rope

Declension

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “s?ma”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Spanish

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sima/, [?si.ma]
• Homophone: cima (non-Castilian)

Noun

sima f (plural simas)

1. abyss, chasm

   Synonyms: abismo, precipicio

Further reading

• “sima” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

sima (n class, plural sima)

1. (dialectal) Synonym of ugali

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Noun

simà

1. feather at the end of an arrow
2. barb; side point on a spear or fishhook

Etymology 2

Noun

simâ

1. a kind of pot for catching fish; dip net

Tumbuka

Noun

sima 9 (plural sima 10)

1. nshima (porridge made from maize or sorghum)

Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sima

1. fishing line

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Yámana

Noun

sima

1. water