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4-letter words (4 found)

AIMS,AMIS,SAIM,SIMA,

3-letter words (10 found)

AIM,AIS,AMI,ISM,MAS,MIS,SAI,SAM,SIM,SMA,

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AI,AM,AS,IS,MA,MI,SI,

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Definitions and meaning of sima

sima

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aɪmə

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek σιμός (simós, “bent upwards”).

Noun

sima (plural simas)

  1. (architecture) The upturned edge of a roof which acts as a gutter; a cyma.

Etymology 2

Coined by Eduard Suess in 1909, in Das Antlitz der Erde, as a blend of silicon +‎ magnesium.

Noun

sima (uncountable)

  1. (geology) The lower layer of the earth's outer crust that underlies the sial and is rich in silica, iron, and magnesium.
Coordinate terms
  • sial
  • nife
Derived terms
  • simatic
  • ensimatic
Translations

See also

  • Si
  • KREEP

References

Anagrams

  • AMIs, Amis, ISAM, Isam, M'sia, MIAs, Masi, Mias, Sami, Siam, Sámi, aims, saim, siam

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Persian سیما.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [siˈmɑ]
  • Hyphenation: si‧ma

Noun

sima (definite accusative simanı, plural simalar)

  1. face
    Synonyms: üz, sifət, bəniz
  2. personality (a known person)
    Synonyms: şəxsiyyət, şəxs

Declension

Further reading

  • “sima” in Obastan.com.

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: si‧ma

Noun

sima

  1. a barb; a fluke

Derived terms

  • sima-sima

Ese

Noun

sima

  1. needle (usually made from flying fox bone)

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sima, possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *saimaz (compare German Seim (“syrup”), Old Norse seimr (“honeycomb”)). The original meaning was “mead”, but the common meaning now refers to a different beverage, albeit one that is ultimately developed from mead.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsimɑ/, [ˈs̠imɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -imɑ
  • Syllabification(key): si‧ma
  • Hyphenation(key): si‧ma

Noun

sima

  1. a nonalcoholic or low-alcohol drink made from lemon, various sugars and water, common around vappu (“May Day”)
  2. (dated) mead

Declension

Synonyms

  • (mead): hunajaviini

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “sima”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

  • Sami, Siam, amis, masi, siam

French

Noun

sima m (plural simas)

  1. (geology) sima

Further reading

  • “sima”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Garo

Noun

sima

  1. rotten food

Hungarian

Etymology

Uncertain. Either derived from regional simik (“to slide”), or from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃimɒ]
  • Hyphenation: si‧ma
  • Rhymes: -mɒ

Adjective

sima (comparative simább, superlative legsimább)

  1. smooth, sleek (having a texture that lacks friction)
    Antonym: érdes
  2. flat, even, smooth (of land, road or ground, lacking elevations or protuberances)
    Antonyms: hepehupás, göröngyös
  3. smooth (of a body of water, without ripples or waves)
  4. smooth (pleasant to the senses, especially of sounds or tastes)
  5. plain (not having any pattern, print or decoration)
  6. blank (of paper, without any printed grid or lines)
    Coordinate terms: négyzethálós, kockás, vonalas
  7. plain, regular, ordinary (out of several varieties, the basic one without anything extra)
  8. continuous, smooth, unbroken (of a motion, without interruption)
  9. (figurative) smooth, simple, easy (without difficulty, problems or unexpected incidents)
  10. (knitting) knit (of a stitch, passing through the previous loop from below, creating a V-shape)
    Antonym: fordított

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

  • sima in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Iban

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /simaʔ/

Noun

sima

  1. navel (of a snake)

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsi.ma/
  • Rhymes: -ma, -a
  • Hyphenation: si‧ma

Etymology 1

Blend of silika +‎ magnesia, borrowed from English sima (“lower layer of Earth's outer crust”).

Noun

sima (plural sima-sima)

  1. (geology) sima: The lower layer of the earth's outer crust that underlies the sial and is rich in silica, iron, and magnesium
Alternative forms
  • silika magnesia

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Old Javanese sīma, from Sanskrit सीमा (sīmā, “limit, bounds, frontier”).

Noun

sima (plural sima-sima)

  1. (archaeology) territory that is made or has a holy place and is exempt from taxes
    Synonym: perdikan

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Nias [Term?].

Verb

sima

  1. to give food to toddlers by chewing them first

Further reading

  • “sima” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Jamamadí

Noun

sima

  1. (Banawá) sister

References

  • 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Latin

Adjective

sīma

  1. inflection of sīmus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

sīmā

  1. ablative feminine singular of sīmus

References

  • “sima”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "sima", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “sima”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[7]
  • “sima”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Malay

Etymology

Either from English sima or a blend of silikon (“silicon”) +‎ magnesium.

Noun

sima

  1. (geology) sima

Further reading

  • “sima” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sīmô (“rope, cord”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁i- (“to tie, bind”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsiː.mɑ/

Noun

sīma m

  1. cord, rope

Declension

Weak:

References

  • Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sīma”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Spanish

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsima/ [ˈsi.ma]
  • Rhymes: -ima
  • Syllabification: si‧ma
  • Homophone: (Latin America) cima

Noun

sima f (plural simas)

  1. abyss, chasm
    Synonyms: abismo, precipicio

Further reading

  • “sima”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

sima class IX (plural sima class X)

  1. (dialectal) synonym of ugali

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *símaq (“barb of a hook”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /ˈsimaʔ/ [ˈsiː.mɐʔ] (“quill; feather; barb”, noun)
      • Rhymes: -imaʔ
    • IPA(key): /siˈmaʔ/ [sɪˈmaʔ] (“dip net; cover pot”, noun)
      • Rhymes: -aʔ
  • Syllabification: si‧ma

Noun

simà (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜋ)

  1. quill or feather at the end of an arrow shaft
  2. barb (point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc.)

Derived terms

See also

Noun

simâ (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜋ) (fishing)

  1. small, triangularly framed dip net (used for catching shrimp and fish from a fish shelter)
  2. cover pot for catching fish (similar to a salakab)
  3. catching of shrimp and fish with such a tool

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “sima”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

  • mais, amis, Siam, asim, misa

Tumbuka

Noun

sima class 9 (plural sima class 10)

  1. nshima (porridge made from maize or sorghum)

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *siima.

Noun

sima

  1. fishing line

Inflection

References

  • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “леска”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[9], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Yámana

Noun

sima

  1. water

Source: wiktionary.org