سيخ

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: سیخ, شيخ, and شیخ

Arabic

[edit]
الفِلْفِل وَأَسْيَاخ الدَجَاج (al-filfil waʔasyāḵ ad-dajāj)

Etymology 1

[edit]

Borrowed from Persian سیخ (six, spit, skewer).

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

سِيخ (sīḵm (plural أَسْيَاخ (ʔasyāḵ))

  1. spit, brochette, skewer
    Synonym: سَفُّود (saffūd)
  2. (chess) skewer
Declension
[edit]

Etymology 2

[edit]

Borrowed from Punjabi ਸਿੱਖ (sikkha).

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

سِيخ (sīḵm (collective, singulative سِيخِيّ f (sīḵiyy))

  1. the Sikh nation; Sikhs
Declension
[edit]
Derived terms
[edit]

References

[edit]
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “سيخ”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 711–712
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سيخ”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 382
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “سيخ”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 521
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “سيخ”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 620

Egyptian Arabic

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]
This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

Noun

[edit]

سيخ (sīḵm (plural أسياخ (ʾasyāḵ))

  1. spit, skewer, rod