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spies

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spa?z/
  • Rhymes: -a?z

Noun

spies

  1. plural of spy

Verb

spies

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spy

Anagrams

  • Seips, Sipes, pisés, sipes

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch spiesse, from Middle High German spiez, from Old High German spioz, from Proto-Germanic *speutaz. Cognate to spit and spiet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spis/
  • Hyphenation: spies
  • Rhymes: -is

Noun

spies f (plural spiesen, diminutive spiesje n)

  1. spike, long spear, pike
  2. skewer
    Synonym: spit

Derived terms

  • barbecuespies
  • braadspies
  • kebabspies
  • spiesgezel
  • steekspies
  • vleesspies
  • werpspies

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sies

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

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