cici

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cici"

Hungarian

Etymology

Sound-symbolic. Compare German Zitze, Serbo-Croatian сиса, Bulgarian ци́ца (cíca), Polish cycek, Czech cecek, Hebrew ציצי (tsítsi), Romanian țâță, Italian zizza etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sit͡si]
• Hyphenation: ci‧ci
• Rhymes: -t͡si

Noun

cici (plural cicik)

1. (colloquial) tit (a woman’s breast)

   Synonyms: mell, csöcs, csecs

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	cici	cicik
accusative	cicit	ciciket
dative	cicinek	ciciknek
instrumental	cicivel	cicikkel
causal-final	ciciért	cicikért
translative	cicivé	cicikké
terminative	ciciig	cicikig
essive-formal	ciciként	cicikként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	ciciben	cicikben
superessive	cicin	ciciken
adessive	cicinél	ciciknél
illative	cicibe	cicikbe
sublative	cicire	cicikre
allative	cicihez	cicikhez
elative	ciciből	cicikből
delative	ciciről	cicikről
ablative	cicitől	ciciktől
non-attributive possessive – singular	cicié	ciciké
non-attributive possessive – plural	ciciéi	cicikéi

Possessive forms of cici

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	cicim	cicijeim (or ciciim)
2nd person sing.	cicid	cicijeid (or ciciid)
3rd person sing.	cicije	cicijei (or cicii)
1st person plural	cicink	cicijeink (or ciciink)
2nd person plural	cicitek	cicijeitek (or ciciitek)
3rd person plural	cicijük	cicijeik (or ciciik)

Further reading

• cici 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.
• cici in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κίκι (kíki), itself from Egyptian kꜣkꜣ.

Noun

cīci n (indeclinable)

1. castor, croton

Synonyms

• crotō
• ricinus

References

• “cici”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cici”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sit͡si/, [ˈt͡sit͡si]
• Rhymes: -it͡si
• Hyphenation: ci‧ci

Noun

cici f

1. dative/locative singular of cica

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish جیجی (cici), reduplication of onomatopoeic ci.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈd͡ʒi/
• Hyphenation: ci‧ci
• Rhymes: -d͡ʒɪ

Adjective

cici

1. cute, loveable
2. (Adana) maternal aunt (father’s sister)

   Synonym: hala

3. (Adana, Konya) maternal aunt (mother's sister)

   Synonym: teyze

4. (Artvin, Kırşehir, Konya, Nevşehir, Tokat) aunt-in-law; (brother's wife)

   Synonym: yenge

5. (Sivas) # paternal uncle, (father’s brother)

   Synonym: amca

6. (İstanbul) who allows one of their relatives to go astray
7. (Karaman, Konya) The man holding the child being circumcised.
8. (Ankara) tin can
9. (childish, Burdur, Isparta) meat
10. (Erzurum) toy

Derived terms

• cici bici
• cicianne
• cicibaba
• cicik
• cicili
• cicili bicili
• ciciş
• cincik

Further reading

• “cici”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• “cici”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu, Türkiye'de Halk Ağzından Derleme Sözlüğü, 1968.
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “cici”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “cici”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 811

Yilan Creole

Etymology

From Japanese ちんちん (chinchin, “penis”).

Noun

cici

1. genitalia of a male child

Synonyms

• cinpo

References

• 真田信治 [Shinji Sanada] (2015), “宜蘭クレオールにおけるsound substitutionについて [On the sound substitution of Yilan Creole]”, in 奈良大学紀要 [Memoirs of Nara University]‎^[1] (in Japanese), number 43