siker
See also: sikér
English
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective
siker
- Alternative spelling of sicker (“certain”)
- Alternative spelling of sicker (“secure”)
- 1847 (publication date), James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Dictionary of Archaisms and Provincialisms from the Fourteenth Century Vol. II., pages 741 and 743:
- "That schip had a ful siker mast,
- And a sayl strong and large."
- 1847 (publication date), James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Dictionary of Archaisms and Provincialisms from the Fourteenth Century Vol. II., pages 741 and 743:
Derived terms
- sikerly
- sikerness
Adverb
siker
- Alternative spelling of sicker (“certainly”)
- Alternative spelling of sicker (“securely”)
Anagrams
- Keirs, Kiers, Kiser, Rieks, Rikes, Riske, keirs, keris, kiers, skier
Hungarian
Etymology
Back-formation from sikeres, which originally meant "having high gluten content" (of wheat), but today normally means "successful". The back-formation was done by splitting the adjectival suffix -es.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈʃikɛr]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: si‧ker
- Rhymes: -ɛr
Noun
siker (plural sikerek)
- success
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | siker | sikerek |
| accusative | sikert | sikereket |
| dative | sikernek | sikereknek |
| instrumental | sikerrel | sikerekkel |
| causal-final | sikerért | sikerekért |
| translative | sikerré | sikerekké |
| terminative | sikerig | sikerekig |
| essive-formal | sikerként | sikerekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | sikerben | sikerekben |
| superessive | sikeren | sikereken |
| adessive | sikernél | sikereknél |
| illative | sikerbe | sikerekbe |
| sublative | sikerre | sikerekre |
| allative | sikerhez | sikerekhez |
| elative | sikerből | sikerekből |
| delative | sikerről | sikerekről |
| ablative | sikertől | sikerektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | sikeré | sikereké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | sikeréi | sikerekéi |
| Possessive forms of siker | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | sikerem | sikereim |
| 2nd person sing. | sikered | sikereid |
| 3rd person sing. | sikere | sikerei |
| 1st person plural | sikerünk | sikereink |
| 2nd person plural | sikeretek | sikereitek |
| 3rd person plural | sikerük | sikereik |
Derived terms
- sikeredik
- sikertelen
- sikerül
- sikerű
Compound words
- balsiker
- bombasiker
- kasszasiker
- sikerfilm
- sikerhajhászás
- sikerkönyv
- sikerlista
- sikerorientált
- sikerszakma
- sikersztori
- sikertörténet
- világsiker
Expressions
- sikerrel jár
Further reading
- siker in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Maltese
| Root |
|---|
| s-k-r |
| 3 terms |
Etymology
From Arabic سَكَرَ (sakara).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɪ.kɛr/
Verb
siker (imperfect jisker)
- to get drunk
- to be overwatered (trees)
Conjugation
| Conjugation of siker | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
| perfect | m | skirt | skirt | siker | skirna | skirtu | sikru | |
| f | sikret | |||||||
| imperfect | m | nisker | tisker | jisker | niskru | tiskru | jiskru | |
| f | tisker | |||||||
| imperative | isker | iskru | ||||||
Middle English
Alternative forms
- cykyr, secir, seker, sekir, sekire, sekor, sekyr, sicer, sicker, sicur, sikir, sikyr, syker, sykir, sykyr, ziker
Etymology
Inherited from Old English sicor, from Proto-West Germanic *sikur, from Latin sēcūrus. Doublet of sure.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsikər/
Adjective
siker (plural and weak singular sikere, comparative sikerer, superlative sikerest)
- safe, secure (not harmful or dangerous):
- sinless, not spiritually dangerous
- fortified, secure, guarded
- reliable, long-lasting, of good quality:
- reliable, dependable, trustworthy, useful
- unerring, unfailing, continuous
- Easily predictable, inevitable, certain
- firm, tough, unbreakable, sound
- actual, real, true not feigned or ephemeral
- certain, sure, assured
- cured, healed, health
Descendants
- English: sicker (obsolete, dialectal)
- Scots: sicker, siccar
- → Welsh: sicr
References
- “siker, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-22.
Adverb
siker (comparative sikerer)
- safely, carefully
- certainly, surely, inevitably
- assuredly, with sureness
- powerfully
Descendants
- English: sicker (obsolete, dialectal)
- Scots: sicker, siccar
References
- “siker, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-22.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
siker
- indefinite plural of sik
- indefinite plural of sik
Verb
siker
- present tense of sike
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
siker f
- indefinite plural of sik
Verb
siker
- present tense of sika
Turkish
Verb
siker
- third-person singular indicative aorist of sikmek