siker

English

Alternative forms

• sicker
• siccer
• siccar

Etymology

From Middle English siker (“secure, safe, stable, certain; gewiss, securely, safely, certainly”), from Old English sicer, sicor (“secure from, free from guilt and the punishment, safe, free from danger or harm, sure, certain, free from doubt, trustworthy”), from Proto-Germanic *sikuraz (“free, secure”), from Latin sēcūrus (“secure”, literally “without care”). See secure. Cognate with Scots siker, seker (“safe, secure”), North Frisian sijcker (“sure, secure”), Dutch zeker (“certain, safe, secure”), German sicher (“sure, secure, confirmed”), Swedish säker (“secure, safe, sure”), Norwegian sikker (“secure”).

Adjective

siker

1. Alternative spelling of sicker: certain
2. 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."

Derived terms

• sikerly
• sikerness

Adverb

siker

1. Alternative spelling of sicker: certainly
2. Alternative spelling of sicker: securely

Anagrams

• keris, skier

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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: /ˈʃikɛr/
• Hyphenation: si‧ker

Noun

siker (plural sikerek)

1. success

Declension

declension of siker 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

possessives of siker possessor singular possession plural possession 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

• (Compound words) kasszasiker

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Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic سکر (sákara)

Verb

siker (imperfect jisker)

1. to be drunk

Conjugation

conjugation of siker

	singular					plural
	1st person	2nd person	3rd person m	3rd person f		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
	jien(a)	int(i)	hu(wa)	hi(ja)		aħna	intom	huma
perfect	skirt	skirt	siker	sikret		skirna	skirtu	sikru
imperfect	nisker	tisker	jisker	tisker	niskru	tiskru	jiskru
imperative		isker				iskru

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Turkish

Verb

siker

1. Third-person negative singular simple present indicative form of sikmemek.
2. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sikmek.

Antonyms

• sikmez

See also

• siker sikmez