sim
English
Etymology
Shortening of simulation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɪm/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪm
Noun
sim (plural sims)
- (informal) A simulation or simulator.
- They played a flight sim all afternoon.
- 2009 July 11, Darren Zenko, “U.K. pair turn time into romp”, in Toronto Star:
- But shooters, sims and real-time strategy games ascended as the industry grew and mouseless home consoles made the genre's mechanics awkward.
Anagrams
- -ism, IMS, IMs, ISM, MIS, MIs, MSI, ism, mis-
Beja
Etymology
From Proto-Afro-Asiatic. Compare Arabic اسم (ism) and Hausa suna.
Noun
sim
- 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 針 (MC t͡ɕiɪm, t͡ɕiɪmH).
Noun
sim
- needle
Khasi
Etymology
From Proto-Khasian *sim, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cim ~ *ciim ~ *ciəm ~ *caim ~ *cum (“bird”). Cognate with Pnar sim.
Noun
sim
- bird
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /sim/, [s̠ɪ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sim/, [sim]
Verb
sim
- first-person singular present active subjunctive of sum
Min Nan
For pronunciation and definitions of sim – see 心 (“heart; mind; etc.”). (This character, sim, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 心.) |
Mizo
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sim/
Verb
sim
- to repent
Mòcheno
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Etymology
From Middle High German siben, from Old High German sebun, from Proto-Germanic *sebun. Cognate with German sieben, English seven.
Numeral
sim
- 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
- (Zoology) hoof
Parauk
Noun
sim
- birds, ornithology.
Pnar
Etymology
From Proto-Khasian *sim, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cim ~ *ciim ~ *ciəm ~ *caim ~ *cum (“bird”). Cognate with Khasi sim.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sim/
Noun
sim
- bird
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese si (“yes”) (with nasalization of the vowel under the influence of não or mim), from Latin sīc (“thus; so”), from Proto-Indo-European *so (“this, that”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsĩ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsĩ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ĩ
- Hyphenation: sim
Interjection
sim
- yes (affirmative answer)
- “Eles já saíram?” “Sim, saíram.”
- “Have they left?” “Yes, they have.”
- 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:
- “Eles saíram?” “Saíram.”
- “Have they left?” “Yes.”
- “Eu ganhei?” “ganhaste/ ganhou.”
- “Have I won?” “You have.”
- “Você vai sair?” “vou.”
- “Are you going out?” “I am.”
Antonyms
- não; see Thesaurus:sim#Antonyms
Adverb
sim (not comparable)
- indeed; do (used for emphasis in affirmative expressions)
- Eu já li esse livro sim.
- I have already read this book indeed.
- Ele matou sim o bicho.
- He did kill the bug.
Noun
sim m (plural sins)
- yes; yea (an affirmative answer)
- Recebemos um sim e três nãos.
- We got one yes and three noes.
Antonyms
- não
Serbo-Croatian
Adverb
sim (Cyrillic spelling сим)
- (Kajkavian) hither, this way, here
Synonyms
- ȃmo, ȃmoder, òvāmo, sȉmo
Sumerian
Romanization
sim
- Romanization of 𒉆 (sim)
Swedish
Etymology
Back-formation from simma.
Noun
sim n
- (almost exclusively in compounds) swimming
Declension
Declension of sim | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | sim | simmet | sim | simmen |
Genitive | sims | simmets | sims | simmens |
Derived terms
- bröstsim
- fjärilsim
- frisim
- grodsim
- hundsim
- klädsim
- konstsim
- ryggsim
- simbassäng
- simborgare
- simborgarmärke
- simdyna
- simfötter
- simglasögon
- simhall
- simhopp
- simlärare
- simmärke
- simskola
- simstil
- simsätt
Anagrams
- -ism
Umbrian
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *sūs. The shift from *ū to *ī in monosyllables is regular in Umbrian, compare frif (“harvest, crop”), pir (“fire”). Cognate with Latin sūs.
Noun
sim m or f
- (both female or male) pig
References
- Ancillotti, Augusto; Cerri, Romolo (2015), “si”, in Vocabolario dell'umbro delle tavole di Gubbio [Vocabulary of Umbrian and of the Iguvine Tables] (in Italian), page 46
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “sūs, sŭis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 603
- Buck, Carl Darling (1904) A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary, page 41
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [sim˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʂim˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʂim˧˧] ~ [sim˧˧]
Noun
(classifier cây) sim • (枮, 槮, 𣑷)
- Rhodomyrtus tomentosa
Zhuang
Etymology
From Chinese 心 (MC siɪm).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /θim˨˦/
- Tone numbers: sim1
- Hyphenation: sim
Noun
sim (1957–1982 spelling sim)
- heart
Zou
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sîm/
Noun
sìm
- south
References
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 49
- Philip Thanglienmang (2014), “Zou Tonology”, in Indian Linguistics, volume 75, issue 1-2, ISSN 0378-0759