سیم

سیم

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian سیم‎ (sim).

Noun

سیم • (sim)

1. silver, a lustrous, white, metallic element

   Synonyms: فضه‎ (fudda), كومش‎ (gümüş)

2. money and coins made of silver

   Synonym: درم‎ (direm)

3. silverlike thread, lace or metalware, wire

Derived terms

• سیمدوز‎ (sim-duz, “one who stitches with silverlike threads”)
• سیمذقن‎ (sim-zakan, “silver-chinned”)
• سیمین‎ (simin, “of silver; silver-like”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: sim
• → Armenian: սիմ (sim)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “sim5”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4243
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “سیم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 710
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Argentum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 82
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “سیم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1736
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “sim1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “سیم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1103

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Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] ((ʾ)sym /(a)sēm/, “silver”), from Old Persian 𐎿𐎡𐎹𐎶𐎶 (s-i-y-m-m /siyamam/), from Ancient Greek ἄσημον (ásēmon, “silverware”), neuter form of ἄσημος (ásēmos, “pure, unmarked”). Akin to Parthian hsym (hasēm, “silver”), Bactrian σιμινο (simino, “made of silver, silverware”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /seːm/, /siːm/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /siːm/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /sim/

Noun

سیم • (sim) (plural سیم‌ها‎ (sim-hâ))

1. wire

   ‏سیم تلفن‎ ― sim-e telefon ― telephone wire

   ‏سیم خاردار‎ ― sim-e xârdâr ― barbed wire

2. string; cord

   ‏سیم ویولن‎ ― sim-e viyolon ― violin string

3. (original sense, now poetic) silver

   Synonym: نقره‎ (noqre)

   • c. 1850, Mirzā Ḥabib-Allāh Širāzi Qāʾāni, وله ایضاً فی مدحه:

     ‏نرگسک آن طشت سیم باز به سر برنهاد
     بر سر سیمینه طشت طاسک زر برنهاد‎

     nargesak ân tašt-e sim bâz be sar barnehâd
     bar sar-e simine tasht tâsak-e zar barnehâd

     The little narcissus has again put that silver basin on its head
     Upon the silvery head, the basin has put a little golden bowl

4. (now poetic) wealth; money
5. Short for ماهی سیم‎ (mâhi-ye sim, “bream”, literally “silver fish”).

Derived terms

• بی‌سیم‎ (bi-sim)
• سیم خاردار‎ (sim(-e) xârdâr)
• سیم ظرفشویی‎ (sim(-e) zarfšuyi)
• سیم و زر‎ (sim o zar)
• سیم کشیدن‎ (sim kešidan)
• سیمین‎ (simin)
• سیمینه‎ (simine)
• سیم‌پیچ‎ (sim-pič)
• سیم‌کشی‎ (sim-keši)
• ماهی سیم‎ (mâhi-ye sim)

 

References

• Philip Huyse (February 23, 2012), “Greek Loanwords in Middle Iranian Languages”, in Encyclopaedia Iranica‎

Etymology 2

From سی‎ (si, “thirty”) + م‎ (-om, “-th, -eth (ordinal number suffix))”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /siːjum/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /siːjʊm/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /siːjom/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /sijum/

Adjective

سیم • (siyom)

1. thirtieth

Etymology 3

Inherited from Middle Persian [Term?] (/seyom/).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /sijum/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /sɪjʊm/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /sejom/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /sijum/

Noun

سیم • (seyom)

1. Archaic form of سوم‎ (sevvom, “third”)