sima

• Rhymes: -aɪmə

From the Ancient Greek σιμός (simós, “bent upwards”).

sima (plural simas)

1. (architecture) The upturned edge of a roof which acts as a gutter; a cyma.

Coined by Eduard Suess in 1909, in Das Antlitz der Erde, as a blend of silicon +‎ magnesium.[1]

sima (uncountable)

1. (geology) The lower layer of the earth's outer crust that underlies the sial and is rich in silica, iron, and magnesium.

• sial
• nife

• simatic
• ensimatic

• Si
• KREEP

• AMIs, Amis, ISAM, Isam, M'sia, MIAs, Masi, Mias, Sami, Siam, Sámi, aims, saim, siam

From Persian سیما.

• IPA^(key): [sæˈmɑ]
• Hyphenation: sə‧ma

sima (definite accusative simanı, plural simalar)

1. face

   Synonyms: üz, sifət, bəniz

2. personality (a known person)

   Synonyms: şəxsiyyət, şəxs

• “sima” in Obastan.com.

• Hyphenation: si‧ma

sima

1. a barb; a fluke

• sima-sima

sima

1. needle (usually made from flying fox bone)

From Proto-Finnic *sima, possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *saimaz (compare German Seim (“syrup”), Old Norse seimr (“honeycomb”)). The original meaning was “mead”, but the common meaning now refers to a different beverage, albeit one that is ultimately developed from mead.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsimɑ/, [ˈs̠imɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -imɑ
• Syllabification^(key): si‧ma

sima

1. a nonalcoholic or low-alcohol drink made from lemon, various sugars and water, common around vappu (“May Day”)
2. (dated) mead

• (mead): hunajaviini

• “sima”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• Sami, Siam, amis, masi, siam

sima m (plural simas)

1. (geology) sima

• “sima”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

sima

1. rotten food

Uncertain. Either derived from regional simik (“to slide”), or from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries).[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃimɒ]
• Hyphenation: si‧ma
• Rhymes: -mɒ

sima (comparative simább, superlative legsimább)

1. smooth, sleek (having a texture that lacks friction)

   Antonym: érdes

   • 1984–1985, Tivadar Vida, “Újabb adatok az avarkori...”, in A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve‎, number 2:

     A fekete kerámiák felülete sima, kissé nyers tapintású.

     The surface of black ceramics is smooth, somewhat raw to the touch.

2. flat, even, smooth (of land, road or ground, lacking elevations or protuberances)

   Antonyms: hepehupás, göröngyös

   • 2006, “Űrszonda az ltokawa kisbolygónál”, in Meteor‎, volume 36, number 9:

     A sziklákkal borított terület és a sima síkság átmenete.

     It is a transition between a terrain covered with rocks and a flat plain.

3. smooth (of a body of water, without ripples or waves)
   • 1859, Arnold Vértesi, “Sanpietro”, in Történeti beszélyek, volume II:

     Csendes volt a tenger, egy sima víztükör, melyen az ég képe ragyogott.

     The sea was calm, a smooth water surface on which the sky's reflection was shining.

4. smooth (pleasant to the senses, especially of sounds or tastes)
   • 1994, “Király Ernő”, in György Székely, Margit Török, editors, Magyar színházművészeti lexikon:

     Eredeti játékstílusa, sima, kellemesen csengő hangja újdonságként hatott.

     His original acting style and his smooth, pleasant voice came as a novelty.

5. plain (not having any pattern, print or decoration)
   • 2013, Mats Strandberg, Sara Bergmark Elfgren, chapter 77, in Vanda Péteri, transl., Engelsfors, volume II:

     Arcán semmi festék, és egy sima fekete ruhát visel.

     There's no paint on her face, and she's wearing a plain black dress.

6. blank (of paper, without any printed grid or lines)

   Coordinate terms: négyzethálós, kockás, vonalas

   • 2011, Kata Finta, Életem regénye‎, volume II:

     Nagy, sima füzetben térképeket kellett rajzolnunk.

     We had to draw maps in a big blank notebook.

7. plain, regular, ordinary (out of several varieties, the basic one without anything extra)
   • 2013, Éva Fejős, “Anisette”, in Most kezdődik:

     Hát... töltetlent. Vagy töltöttet. Mandulást. Vagy mogyoróst. Vagy simát.

     Well... without filling. Or with filling. With almonds. Or nuts. Or plain.

8. continuous, smooth, unbroken (of a motion, without interruption)
   • 1908, Géza Csáth, “Jolán”, in A varázsló kertje‎:

     A mozdulatai éppen olyan simák és puhák, mint azelőtt.

     Her movements are just as smooth and soft as before.

9. (figurative) smooth, simple, easy (without difficulty, problems or unexpected incidents)
   • 2009, András Jenei, chapter VII, in Nyeregben a Konstantin-kereszt‎:

     De, sima ügynek indult, de aztán reanimálás lett a vége.

     Yes, it had started out as a simple case, but then it ended in CPR.

10. (knitting) knit (of a stitch, passing through the previous loop from below, creating a V-shape)

    Antonym: fordított

    • 1982, József Méliusz, Tranzit kávéház:

      Egy sima, egy fordított, egy sima, egy fordított.

      Knit one, purl one, knit one, purl one.

• sima in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

IPA^(key): /simaʔ/

sima

1. navel (of a snake)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ma/
• Rhymes: -ma, -a
• Hyphenation: si‧ma

Borrowed from English sima (“lower layer of Earth's outer crust”), blend of silicon +‎ magnesium.

sima (first-person possessive simaku, second-person possessive simamu, third-person possessive simanya)

1. (geology) sima: The lower layer of the earth's outer crust that underlies the sial and is rich in silica, iron, and magnesium.

• silika magnesia

Learned borrowing from Old Javanese sīma, from Sanskrit सीमा (sīmā, “limit, bounds, frontier”).

sima (plural sima-sima, first-person possessive simaku, second-person possessive simamu, third-person possessive simanya)

1. (archaeology) territory that is made or has a holy place and is exempt from taxes

   Synonym: perdikan

• “sima” 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.

sima

1. (Banawá) sister

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

sīma

1. inflection of sīmus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

sīmā

1. ablative feminine singular of sīmus

• “sima”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sima in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “sima”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “sima”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Either from English sima or a blend of silikon (“silicon”) +‎ magnesium.

sima

1. (geology) sima

• “sima” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Proto-Germanic *sīmô (“rope, cord”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁i- (“to tie, bind”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiː.mɑ/

sīma m

1. cord, rope

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sīma”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Unknown.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsima/ [ˈsi.ma]
• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: si‧ma
• Homophone: (Latin America) cima

sima f (plural simas)

1. abyss, chasm

   Synonyms: abismo, precipicio

   • 2021 August 26, Eva Saiz, “Los desenterradores de la memoria en la fosa de Pico Reja”, in El País‎:

     Pasan casi tan desapercibidas como lo estuvo durante ocho décadas esta sima en la que se arrojaron centenares de cadáveres de represaliados durante el verano de 1936 y la posguerra franquista.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “sima”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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sima (n class, plural sima)

1. (dialectal) Synonym of ugali

From Proto-Philippine *símaq (“barb of a hook”).

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈsimaʔ/ [ˈsi.mɐʔ] (“quill; feather; barb”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -imaʔ
  • IPA^(key): /siˈmaʔ/ [sɪˈmaʔ] (“dip net; cover pot”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: si‧ma

simà (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜋ)

1. quill or feather at the end of an arrow shaft
2. barb (point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc.)

simâ (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜋ) (fishing)

1. small, triangularly framed dip net (used for catching shrimp and fish from a fish shelter)
2. cover pot for catching fish (similar to a salakab)
3. catching of shrimp and fish with such a tool

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

sima class 9 (plural sima class 10)

1. nshima (porridge made from maize or sorghum)

From Proto-Finnic *siima.

sima

1. fishing line

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “леска”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

sima

1. water