sim

See also: Sim, SIM, sím, šim, šīm, sɨm, and сим

English

Etymology

Shortening of simulation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪm/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪm

Noun

sim (plural sims)

1. (informal) Clipping of simulator.

   They played a flight sim all afternoon.

2. (informal) Clipping of simulation.
   • 2009 July 11, Darren Zenko, “U.K. pair turn time into romp”, in Toronto Star‎^[1]:

     But shooters, sims and real-time strategy games ascended as the industry grew and mouseless home consoles made the genre's mechanics awkward.

3. (informal) A simulation session or scenario

Derived terms

• dim sim
• racesim
• sim-com
• simrace
• sim racer

 

See also

• emulator
• model
• trainer

 

Anagrams

• -ism, IMS, IMs, ISM, MIS, MIs, MSI, ism, mis-

Beja

Etymology

From Proto-Afro-Asiatic. Compare Arabic اسم‎ (ism) and Hausa suna.

Noun

sim

1. name

References

• Bedawiyet Swadesh List. (2010, September 16). Retrieved December 06, 2020, from https://ia600500.us.archive.org/27/items/rosettaproject_bej_swadesh-1/bej.txt

Iu Mien

Etymology

From Chinese 針 (MC tsyim|tsyimH).

Noun

sim 

1. needle

Khasi

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *sim, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cim ~ *ciim ~ *ciəm ~ *caim ~ *cum (“bird”). Cognate with Pnar sim.

Noun

sim

1. bird

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sim/, [s̠ɪ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sim/, [sim]

Verb

sim

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of sum

Min Nan

For pronunciation and definitions of sim – see 心 (“heart; mind; etc.”). (This character, sim, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 心.)

Mizo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sim/

Verb

sim

1. to repent

Mòcheno

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Etymology

From Middle High German siben, from Old High German sebun, from Proto-Germanic *sebun. Cognate with German sieben, English seven.

Numeral

sim

1. seven

References

• “sim” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Northern Kurdish

sim

Noun

sim m

1. (Zoology) hoof

Parauk

Noun

sim

1. birds, ornithology.

Pnar

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *sim, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cim ~ *ciim ~ *ciəm ~ *caim ~ *cum (“bird”). Cognate with Khasi sim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sim/

Noun

sim

1. bird

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese si (“yes”) (with nasalization of the vowel under the influence of não or mim), from Latin sīc (“thus; so”), from Proto-Indo-European *so (“this, that”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsĩ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsĩ/

• Rhymes: -ĩ
• Hyphenation: sim

• Audio (Brazil)

  (file)

Interjection

sim

1. yes (affirmative answer)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sim

   “Eles já saíram?” “Sim, saíram.”

   “Have they left?” “Yes, they have.”

Usage notes

Sim as an affirmative response is relatively uncommon in Portuguese. The typical affirmative response in the language consists of repeating the first verb of the question, with a change in person if necessary:

• “Eles saíram?” “Saíram.”

  “Have they left?” “Yes.”

• “Eu ganhei?” “ganhaste/ ganhou.”

  “Have I won?” “You have.”

• “Você vai sair?” “vou.”

  “Are you going out?” “I am.”

Antonyms

• não; see Thesaurus:sim#Antonyms

Adverb

sim (not comparable)

1. indeed; do (used for emphasis in affirmative expressions)

   Eu já li esse livro sim.

   I have already read this book indeed.

   Ele matou sim o bicho.

   He did kill the bug.

Noun

sim m (plural sins)

1. yes; yea (an affirmative answer)

   Recebemos um sim e três nãos.

   We got one yes and three noes.

Antonyms

• não

Serbo-Croatian

Adverb

sim (Cyrillic spelling сим)

1. (Kajkavian) hither, this way, here

   Synonyms: ȃmo, ȃmoder, òvāmo, sȉmo

Sumerian

Romanization

sim

1. Romanization of 𒉆 (sim)

Swedish

Etymology

Back-formation from simma.

Noun

sim n

1. (almost exclusively in compounds) swimming

Declension

Declension of sim
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	sim	simmet	sim	simmen
Genitive	sims	simmets	sims	simmens

Derived terms

• bröstsim
• fjärilsim
• frisim
• grodsim
• hundsim
• klädsim
• konstsim
• ryggsim
• simbassäng
• simborgare
• simborgarmärke
• simdyna
• simfötter
• simglasögon
• simhall
• simhopp
• simlärare
• simmärke
• simskola
• simsnäppa
• simstil
• simsätt

 

Anagrams

• -ism

Umbrian

The spelling of this entry has been normalized according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community or recent spelling standards of the language.

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sūs. The shift from *ū to *ī in monosyllables is regular in Umbrian, compare frif (“harvest, crop”), pir (“fire”). Cognate with Latin sūs.

Noun

sim m or f

1. (both female or male) pig

References

• Ancillotti, Augusto; Cerri, Romolo (2015), “si”, in Vocabolario dell'umbro delle tavole di Gubbio [Vocabulary of Umbrian and of the Iguvine Tables] (in Italian), page 46
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “sūs, sŭis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 603
• Buck, Carl Darling (1904) A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary, page 41

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [sim˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂim˧˧] ~ [sim˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʂim˧˧] ~ [sim˧˧]

Noun

(classifier cây) sim • (枮, 槮, 𣑷)

1. Rhodomyrtus tomentosa

Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese 心 (MC sim).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /θim˨˦/
• Tone numbers: sim¹
• Hyphenation: sim

Noun

sim (1957–1982 spelling sim)

1. heart

Zou

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sîm/

Noun

sìm

1. south

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 49
• Philip Thanglienmang (2014), “Zou Tonology”, in Indian Linguistics, volume 75, issue 1-2, →ISSN