sim

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

English

Etymology

Shortening of simulation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪm/

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪm

Noun

sim (plural sims)

1. (informal) A simulation or simulator.

   They played a flight sim all afternoon.

   • 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.

Anagrams

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

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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

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Iu Mien

Etymology

From Chinese 針 (MC t͡ɕiɪm, t͡ɕiɪm^H).

Noun

sim 

1. needle

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Khasi

Etymology

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

Noun

sim

1. bird

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Latin

Pronunciation

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

Verb

sim

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of sum

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Min Nan

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

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Mizo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sim/

Verb

sim

1. to repent

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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.

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Northern Kurdish

sim

Noun

sim m

1. (Zoology) hoof

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Parauk

Noun

sim

1. birds, ornithology.

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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

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old 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/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ĩ
• Hyphenation: sim

Interjection

sim

1. yes (affirmative answer)

   “Eles já saíram?” “Sim, saíram.”

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

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sim

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Adverb

sim (Cyrillic spelling сим)

1. (Kajkavian) hither, this way, here

Synonyms

• ȃmo, ȃmoder, òvāmo, sȉmo

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Sumerian

Romanization

sim

1. Romanization of 𒉆 (sim)

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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
• simstil
• simsätt

 

Anagrams

• -ism

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Umbrian

The spelling of this entry has been normalized per WT:About Umbrian 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

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Noun

(classifier cây) sim • (枮, 槮, 𣑷)

1. Rhodomyrtus tomentosa

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Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese 心 (MC siɪm).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sim (old orthography sim)

1. heart

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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 0378-0759