sip

See also: síp, Síp, şip, šíp, and сип

English

Etymology

From Middle English sippen, of uncertain origin. Compare with Low German sippen (“to sip”). Possibly from a variant of Middle English suppen (“to drink, sip”) (see sup) or perhaps from Old English sipian, sypian (“to take in moisture, soak, macerate”), from Proto-Germanic *sipōną (“to drip, trickle”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out, trickle, leak out”). Compare also Old High German supfen (“to drink, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną (“to sip, intake”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĭp, IPA^(key): /sɪp/
• Rhymes: -ɪp

Noun

sip (plural sips)

1. A small mouthful of drink

Translations

A small mouthful of drink

• Arabic: مَصَّة (maṣṣa), رَشْفَة (rašfa)
• Catalan: glop (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抿 (zh) (mǐn), 啜 (zh)

• Dalmatian: suars m
• Danish: sip n, nip n, slurk c
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: siemaus (fi)
• French: gorgée (fr) f
• Galician: chisco m, pinga (gl) f, fecha (gl) f, fechiña f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Greek: γουλιά (el) f (gouliá)
• Hungarian: korty (hu)
• Icelandic: sopi (is) m
• Ido: drinketo
• Irish: bolgam m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: sorso (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latvian: malks m
• Lithuanian: gurkšnis m
• Macedonian: срк m (srk)
• Mapudungun: ofqui
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: gole (pt) m
• Scottish Gaelic: balgam m
• Spanish: sorbo (es) m
• Swedish: slurk (sv) c
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ซด (th) (sót)
• Turkish: yudum (tr)
• Vietnamese: hớp (vi)

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.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
        ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’

   • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

2. (intransitive) To drink a small quantity.
   • John Dryden

     [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; / Then, sipping, offered to the next in place.

3. To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
   • John Dryden

     They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.

4. (Scotland, US, dated) Alternative form of seep
5. (figurative) to consume slowly — (usually) in contrast to faster consumption, (sometimes) in contrast to zero consumption
   • 1995 Richard North, Life on a Modern Planet: A Manifesto for Progress p.80 (Manchester University Press, →ISBN):

     Sales of lightbulbs which sip electricity, and whose increased cost in the shops is easily paid for over their lifetime, used to double every year; in 1990/1991, they leapt sevenfold.

   • 2008 July 3, "The presidential election: White men can vote" The Economist:

     It makes a small car, the Chevy Cobalt, which sips petrol in moderation and is therefore selling well.

   • 2014 October 20, Erik Hyrkas, "Energy Vampires are Attacking Your Home – Here’s How to Stop Them" (Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy)

     Even when turned off, these devices can idly sip electricity from your outlet costing you money.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sip”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Synonyms

• nurse
• See also Thesaurus:drink

Translations

to drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time

• Arabic: مَزّ (mazz), كَرَع (karaʕ), رَشَفَ (rašafa), حَسَا (ḥasā), تَمَصّصَ, تَحَسّى, اِمْتَصّ (imtaṣṣ), اِرْتَشَفَ (irtašafa), اِحْتَسَى (iḥtasā)
• Aromanian: sorbu
• Catalan: xarrupar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抿 (zh) (mǐn), 啜 (zh)

• Czech: srkat (cs)
• Danish: sippe, nippe
• Esperanto: trinketi
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: siemailla (fi)
• French: siroter (fr)
• Galician: beberricar
• German: nippen (de)
• Hungarian: kortyol (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Icelandic: bergja
• Ido: drinketar
• Italian: sorbire (it)
• Japanese: すする (ja) (susuru)
• Latin: sorbillō, dēlībō
• Macedonian: срка (srka), сркнува (srknuva)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: bebericar (pt), sorver (pt)
• Quechua: ch'uqchuy, upiy
• Romanian: sorbi (ro)
• Russian: пригуби́ть (ru) (prigubítʹ)
• Spanish: sorber (es)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: จิบ (th) (jìp), ซด (th) (sót)
• Turkish: yudumlamak (tr)
• Vietnamese: hớp (vi)

See also

• seep
• siphon

Anagrams

• IPS, IPs, ISP, Isp, PIs, PSI, iPS, isp, pis, psi

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Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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Adjective

sip (comparative sipper, superlative sipst)

1. sad, subdued

   Synonyms: droevig, treurig

Inflection

Declension of sip
uninflected	sip
inflected	sippe
comparative	sipper
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		sip	sipper	het sipst het sipste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	sippe	sippere	sipste
	n. sing.	sip	sipper	sipste
	plural	sippe	sippere	sipste
definite		sippe	sippere	sipste
partitive		sips	sippers	—

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Indonesian

Etymology

From English safe, from Middle English sauf, safe, saf, saaf, from Old French sauf, saulf, salf (“safe”), from Latin salvus (“whole, safe”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole, every”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɪp]
• Hyphenation: sip

Adjective

sip

1. (colloquial) safe.
   1. not in danger; out of harm's reach.

      Synonym: aman

   2. free from risk.

      Synonym: terjamin

   3. reliable.

      Synonyms: mantap, elok, baik, sempurna

Further reading

• “sip” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Irish

Alternative forms

• sip-dhúntóir

Etymology

From English zip.

Noun

sip f (genitive singular sipe, nominative plural sipeanna)

1. zip, zipper, zip fastener

Declension

Declension of sip

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative sip sipeanna Vocative a ship a shipeanna Genitive sipe sipeanna Dative sip sipeanna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an tsip na sipeanna Genitive na sipe na sipeanna Dative leis an tsip don tsip leis na sipeanna

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
sip	ship after an, tsip	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sip”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “sip”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

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Spanish

Etymology

Possibly a calque of English yep.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsib/ [ˈsiβ̞]

Interjection

sip

1. (informal, neologism) yep, yeah, uh-huh

See also

• nop

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English ship.

Noun

sip

1. ship