sip

See also šíp, síp, and SIP

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĭp, IPA: /sɪp/, 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: قوم (ku) Latvian: malks (lv) m. Macedonian: срк (mk) (srk) m. Portuguese: gole (pt) 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.

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) 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) Romanian: sorbi (ro) Russian: пригуби́ть (ru) (prigubít') Spanish: sorber (es) Turkish: yudumlamak (tr)

See also

• seep
• siphon

Anagrams

• IPS, IPs, ISP, pis, PSI, psi