sip

See also šíp, síp, and SIP

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĭp, IPA: /sɪp/, X-SAMPA: /sIp/
• Rhymes: -ɪp

Etymology

From Middle English sippen, probably cognate with Middle English sipen (“to seep”), from Old English sipian (“to seep”).

Noun

sip (plural sips)

1. A small mouthful of drink

Translations

A small mouthful of drink

• Arabic: مَصّة (ar), رَشْفَة (ar)
• Catalan: glop (ca) m
• Danish: sip (da) n, nip (da) n, slurk (da) c
• Finnish: siemaus (fi)
• French: gorgée (fr) f
• Greek: γουλιά (el) (gouliá) f
• Hungarian: korty (hu)
• Italian: sorso (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: قوم (ku)

• Latvian: malks (lv) m
• Macedonian: срк (mk) (srk) m
• Portuguese: gole (pt) m
• Scottish Gaelic: balgam (gd) m
• Spanish: sorbo (es) m
• Swedish: slurk (sv) c
• Turkish: yudum (tr)

Verb

sip (third-person singular simple present sips, present participle sipping, simple past and past participle sipped)

1. (transitive) To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 5

     He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.

2. (intransitive) To drink a small quantity.
   • Dryden

     [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; / Then, sipping, offered to the next in place.

3. (Scotland, US, dated) Alternative form of seep.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Synonyms

• nurse
• See also Wikisaurus:drink

Translations

To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time

• Arabic: مَزّ (ar), كَرَع (ar), رَشَفَ (ar), حَسَا (ar), تَمَصّصَ (ar), تَحَسّى (ar), اِمْتَصّ (ar), اِرْتَشَفَ (ar), اِحْتَسَى (ar)
• Aromanian: sorbu (rup)
• Catalan: xarrupar (ca)
• Danish: sippe (da), nippe (da)
• Finnish: siemailla (fi)
• French: siroter (fr)

• Hungarian: kortyol (hu)
• Italian: sorbire (it)
• Macedonian: срка (mk) (s'rka), сркнува (mk) (s'rknuva), сркнува (mk) (s'rknuva)
• Portuguese: bebericar (pt), sorver (pt)
• Quechua: ch'uqchuy (qu)
• Romanian: sorbi (ro)
• Russian: пригуби́ть (ru) (prigubít')
• Spanish: sorber (es)
• Turkish: yudumlamak (tr)

See also

• seep
• siphon

Anagrams

• IPS, IPs, ISP, pis, PSI, psi

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Lojban

Rafsi

sip

1. rafsi of sipna.

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English ship.

Noun

sip

1. ship