sim

Abbreviation of English Seim.

sim

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Seim.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Seim terms

• IPA^(key): /sɪm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪm

sim (plural sims)

2. (informal) Clipping of 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.

4. (informal) Clipping of simulation.
5. (informal) A simulation session or scenario.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

sim (third-person singular simple present sims, present participle simming, simple past and past participle simmed)

2. (informal, uncommon) Clipping of simulate.

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

• IPA^(key): /sim/

Borrowed from Arabic سُمّ.

sim (definite accusative simi, plural simlər)

1. (pathology) blood poisoning

Borrowed from Persian سیم (sim).

sim (definite accusative simi, plural simlər)

1. (music) string (segment of wire or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument)
2. wire, lead

   Synonyms: məftil, tel

• “sim” in Obastan.com.

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

sim

1. name

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

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

Borrowed from Chinese 針 (MC tsyim|tsyimH).

sim 

1. needle

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

• IPA^(key): /sim/

sim f

1. bird

• Singh, U Nissor (1906) Khasi-English dictionary‎^[2], Shillong: Eastern Bengal and Assam Secretariat Press, page 204. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsĩː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsim]

sim

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of sum

• IPA^(key): /siŋ/

Derived from Portuguese sim.

sim

1. yes

   Antonym: nunca

• uí-di sim (“very good!”)

Derived from Portuguese sem.

sim

1. without, -less

   Antonym: co

   sim vegônha ― shameless

   sim ninguim ― alone (literally, “without anybody”)

   Já vai sim falâ co iou ― He left without telling me

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

• IPA^(key): /sim/

sim

1. to repent

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

sim

1. seven

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

sim m

1. (Zoology) hoof

sim

1. birds, ornithology.

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

• IPA^(key): /sim/

sim

1. bird

Inherited 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”).

• Rhymes: -ĩ
• Hyphenation: sim

• Audio (Brazil):

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sim

1. yes (affirmative answer)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sim

   “Eles já saíram?” “Sim, saíram.”

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

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.”

• não; see Thesaurus:sim#Antonyms

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.

sim m (plural sins)

1. yes; yea (an affirmative answer)

   Recebemos um sim e três nãos.

   We got one yes and three noes.

• não

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

sim (Cyrillic spelling сим)

1. (Kajkavian) hither, this way, here

   Synonyms: ȃmo, ȃmoder, òvāmo, sȉmo

• IPA^(key): /ˈsim/ [ˈsĩm]
• Rhymes: -im
• Syllabification: sim

sim m or f by sense (plural sims)

1. (video games) Sim (a character in the video game The Sims)

• mis

sim

1. romanization of 𒉆 (sim)

Back-formation from simma.

sim n

1. (almost exclusively in compounds) swimming
   1. (in compounds) stroke (swimming style)

• sim in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sim in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sim in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• -ism

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsim/ [ˈsɪm]
• Rhymes: -im
• Syllabification: sim

Ellipsis of English SIM card.

sim (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜋ᜔) (telecommunications, colloquial)

1. SIM card

sim (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜋ᜔)

1. alternative form of siim

• “sim”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

sim

1. romanization of 𐌔𐌉𐌌

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [sim˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂim˧˧] ~ [sim˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʂim˧˧] ~ [sim˧˧]

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

(classifier cây, quả, trái) sim • (枮, 槮, 𣑷)

1. rose myrtle (Rhodomyrtus tomentosa)

• rượu sim

From English SIM.

• (upper case) SIM

(classifier cái, chiếc) sim

1. (telecommunications) Subscriber Identity Module

Borrowed from Chinese 心 (MC sim).

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

sim (Sawndip form 𦙦, 1957–1982 spelling sim)

1. heart (organ)
2. heart (seat of emotions)
3. mood; mind (to do something)
4. centre; core

sim (Sawndip forms 𱃤 or ⿰飠心, 1957–1982 spelling sim)

1. filling; stuffing

• IPA^(key): /sîm/

sìm

1. south

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