sim

Shortening of simulation.

• IPA^(key): /sɪm/

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• Rhymes: -ɪm

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:

     But shooters, sims and real-time strategy games ascended as the industry grew and mouseless home consoles made the genre's mechanics awkward.

• -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 t͡ɕiɪm, t͡ɕiɪm^H).

sim 

1. needle

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

sim

1. bird

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

sim

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of sum

• 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 Khasi sim.

• IPA^(key): /sim/

sim

1. bird

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”).

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• Rhymes: -ĩ
• Hyphenation: sim

sim

1. yes (affirmative answer)

   “Eles já saíram?” “Sim, saíram.”

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

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sim

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

sim (Cyrillic spelling сим)

1. (Kajkavian) hither, this way, here

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

(classifier cây) sim • (枮, 槮, 𣑷)

1. Rhodomyrtus tomentosa

From Chinese 心 (MC siɪm).

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

sim (1957–1982 spelling sim)

1. heart

• 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 0378-0759