different between sim vs ism

English

Etymology

Shortening of simulation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

sim (plural sims)

1. (informal) A simulation or simulator.

   They played a flight sim all afternoon.

Anagrams

• -ism, IMS, IMs, ISM, MIS, MIs, MSI, ism, mis-

Beja

Etymology

From Proto-Afro-Asiatic. Compare Arabic ???? (ism) and Hausa suna.

Noun

sim

1. name

References

• Bedawiyet Swadesh List. (2010, September 16). Retrieved December 06, 2020, from https://ia600500.us.archive.org/27/items/rosettaproject_bej_swadesh-1/bej.txt

Iu Mien

Etymology

From Chinese ? (MC t??i?m, t??i?m^H).

Noun

sim 

1. needle

Khasi

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *sim, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cim ~ *ciim ~ *ci?m ~ *caim ~ *cum (“bird”). Cognate with Pnar sim.

Noun

sim

1. bird

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sim/, [s????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sim/, [sim]

Verb

sim

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of sum

Min Nan

Mizo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sim/

Verb

sim

1. to repent

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German siben, from Old High German sebun, from Proto-Germanic *sebun. Cognate with German sieben, English seven.

Numeral

sim

1. seven

References

• “sim” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Northern Kurdish

Noun

sim m

1. hoof

Pnar

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *sim, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cim ~ *ciim ~ *ci?m ~ *caim ~ *cum (“bird”). Cognate with Khasi sim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sim/

Noun

sim

1. bird

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese si (“yes”) (with nasalization of the vowel under the influence of não or mim), from Latin s?c (“thus; so”), from Proto-Indo-European *so (“this, that”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /s?(j?)/
• Hyphenation: sim
• Rhymes: -?

Interjection

sim

1. yes (affirmative answer)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sim

Usage notes

Sim as an affirmative response is relatively uncommon in Portuguese. The typical affirmative response in the language consists of repeating the first verb of the question, with a change in person if necessary:

Antonyms

• não; see Thesaurus:sim#Antonyms

Adverb

sim (not comparable)

1. indeed; do (used for emphasis in affirmative expressions)

Noun

sim m (plural sins)

1. yes; yea (an affirmative answer)

Antonyms

• não

Serbo-Croatian

Adverb

sim (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. (Kajkavian) hither, this way, here

Synonyms

• ?mo, ?moder, òv?mo, s?mo

Swedish

Etymology

Back-formation from simma.

Noun

sim n

1. (almost exclusively in compounds) swimming

Declension

Derived terms

Anagrams

• -ism

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [sim??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [?im??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [?im??] ~ [sim??]

Noun

(classifier cây) sim • (?, ?, ????)

1. Rhodomyrtus tomentosa

Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese ? (MC si?m).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /?im??/
• Tone numbers: sim¹
• Hyphenation: sim

Noun

sim (old orthography sim)

1. heart

Zou

Noun

sim

1. south

References

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf

English

Etymology

From the suffix -ism (“belief”), particularly (in the 19th century) in the sense of "social movement". Compare phobia, from -phobia, sophy, from -sophy, itis, from -itis, and ana, from -ana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??z.?m/
• Rhymes: -?z?m

Noun

ism (plural isms)

1. An ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism.

   Synonym: whateverism
2. (specifically) A form of discrimination, such as racism or sexism.

Translations

See also

• ideology
• ist
• philosophy
• wasm

Further reading

• "isms" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 173.

Anagrams

• IMS, IMs, MIS, MIs, MSI, SIM, Sim, mis-, sim

Abinomn

Noun

ism

1. root (of a plant)

Cypriot Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (ism), from Proto-Semitic *šim-.

Noun

ism

1. name

Uzbek

Etymology

From Persian ???? (esm), from Arabic ?????? (ism).

Noun

ism (plural ismlar)

1. name
2. (grammar) noun