sika

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːkə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːkə
• Homophone: seeker (non-rhotic)

From Japanese 鹿 (shika, “deer”).

sika (plural sikas or sika)

1. Cervus nippon, a deer found in the forests of East Asia

   Synonyms: Japanese deer, sika deer

• Sika

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sika (plural sikas or sika)

1. A traditional Bangladeshi hanging basket
   • 2003, Sirajul Islam, Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh‎^[1], volume 7, →ISBN, page 207:

     In the past sikas were made within the family and its purchase and sale was not so noticeable.

• Often italicized as a foreign borrowing.

• Sika Deer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cervus nippon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Cervus nippon on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• AKIs, KIAS, KIAs, Saki, aiks, saki

• IPA^(key): /ˈsika/
• Rhymes: -ika
• Hyphenation: si‧ka

sika (accusative singular sikan, plural sikaj, accusative plural sikajn)

1. Sikh
   • 2002 February, GMA, “Irlandaj sikoj razas sin”, in Monato, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17:

     Tiele, la sikaj viroj malĝoje ĉesas surporti turbanon kaj unuafoje en la vivo vizitas barbirojn por fortondigi la hararon kaj barbon.

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• siko

From Proto-Finnic *cika. Cognate with Estonian siga, Livonian sigā, Võro tsiga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsikɑ/, [ˈs̠ikɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ikɑ
• Syllabification^(key): si‧ka
• Hyphenation^(key): si‧ka

sika

1. pig, swine
2. synonym of sianliha (“pork”)
3. (derogatory) pig, swine (term for a person)

   Synonym: sikailija

4. (derogatory, slang) police officer

• “sika”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• -ksia, aski, kasi, kisa

sika

1. to sew

Cognates include Fon síká, Saxwe Gbe sìká, Adja shika, Ewe sika. Compare Akan sika (“gold, money”), Kabiyé sika, Gur Lama sɨka, Nkonya sika (“gold, money”), Akebu sɩka-yǝ, Ifè siká, Gikyode sika (“gold, money”), Tem siká, Nawdm sìká, Hanga suga, Abidji sìká

• IPA^(key): /sí.ká/

síká (plural síká lɛ́ or síká lẹ́)

1. gold

Borrowed from Esperanto seka, French sec, Italian secco, Spanish seco, ultimately from Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-. The initial e was changed to i so not to interfere with sekar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsika/

sika

1. dry (not wet)

   Antonyms: aquoza, humida

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ka/
• Hyphenation: si‧ka

síka (plural siksika)

1. dysentery, diarrhea

   Synonym: buris

• agsika

From Proto-Austronesian *si and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ka.

• IPA^(key): /siˈka/

siká

1. Second-person singular absolutive independent pronoun; you

• siksika

From Proto-Finnic *cika. Cognates include Finnish sika and Estonian siga.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈsikɑ/, [ˈs̠ikɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈsikɑ/, [ˈʃiɡ̊ɑ]
• Rhymes: -ikɑ
• Hyphenation: si‧ka

sika

1. pig
2. A certain card game, where players take turns drawing cards from the deck and try to discard them.

Declension of sika (type 3/kana, k- gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	sika	siat
genitive	sian	sikkoin
partitive	sikkaa	sikoja
illative	sikkaa	sikkoi
inessive	sias	siois
elative	siast	sioist
allative	sialle	sioille
adessive	sial	sioil
ablative	sialt	sioilt
translative	siaks	sioiks
essive	sikanna, sikkaan	sikoinna, sikkoin
exessive1)	sikant	sikoint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “сига”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 679
• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 59
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 523
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[4], →ISBN, page 82

sika

1. place, locality

sika

1. now, current

sika

1. medicine

-sika^?

1. to cut

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

sika (present tense sik or sikar or siker, past tense seik or sika or sikt, supine sike or sika or sikt, past participle siken or sika or sikt, present participle sikande, imperative sik)

1. alternative form of sike

sika

1. definite singular of sik f
2. definite plural of sik n

• IPA^(key): /ˈɕi.ka/
• Rhymes: -ika
• Syllabification: si‧ka

sika

1. third-person singular present of sikać

From Proto-Finnic *cika. Cognate with Finnish sika, Estonian siga, Võro tsiga.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈsikɑ/, [ˈsʲikɑ]
• Rhymes: -ikɑ
• Hyphenation: si‧ka

sika

1. pig

Declension of sika (type III/jalkõ, k-g gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	sika	sigad
genitive	siga	sikojõ, sikoi
partitive	sikka	sikoitõ, sikoi
illative	sikkasõ, sikka	sikoisõ
inessive	sigaz	sikoiz
elative	sigassõ	sikoissõ
allative	sigalõ	sikoilõ
adessive	sigallõ	sikoillõ
ablative	sigaltõ	sikoiltõ
translative	sigassi	sikoissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

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-síka

1. (transitive) to cut

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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

-síka

1. (transitive) to cut
2. (transitive) to imitate, to mimic

   Synonym: -lingisa

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “sika”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “sika (3.9)”