sim

Shortening of simulation.

• IPA^(key): /sɪm/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɪm

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:

     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

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

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

From Chinese 針 (MC tsyim|tsyimH).

sim 

1. needle

From Proto-Khasian *sim, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cim ~ *ciim ~ *ciəm ~ *caim ~ *cum (“bird”). Cognate with Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

sim

1. bird

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

sim

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of sum

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

sim

1. yes

   Antonym: nunca

• uí-di sim (“very good!”)

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

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.

From Proto-Khasian *sim, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cim ~ *ciim ~ *ciəm ~ *caim ~ *cum (“bird”). Cognate with Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

• IPA^(key): /sim/

sim

1. bird

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

sim

1. Romanization of 𒉆 (sim)

Back-formation from simma.

sim n

1. (almost exclusively in compounds) swimming

• -ism

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.

sim m or f

1. (both female or male) pig

• 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

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

(classifier cây) sim • (枮, 槮, 𣑷)

1. Rhodomyrtus tomentosa

From Chinese 心 (MC sim).

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

sim (Sawndip form 𦙦, 1957–1982 spelling Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value))

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 Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value))

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, issue 1-2, →ISSN