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 Classical Persian سیما (sīmā), from Arabic سِيمَاءٌ (sīmāʔun).

• IPA^(key): /siː.mɑ/, [s̪iː.mɑ̝]

• Hyphenation: si‧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)

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

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.

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]‎^[1] (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

< English sima

sima

1. (geology) sima

• 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^[2], 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^[3], 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^[4], 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^[5]:

     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^[6]:

     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 Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (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

Blend of silika +‎ magnesia, borrowed from English sima (“lower layer of Earth's outer crust”).

sima (plural sima-sima)

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)

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

   Synonym: perdikan

Borrowed from Nias [Term?].

sima

1. to give food to toddlers by chewing them first

• “sima”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), 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, 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^[7]
• “sima”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

-sima (infinitive kosima)

1. to thank, to appreciate

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsima/
• Hyphenation: si‧ma

sima (Lontara spelling ᨔᨗᨆ)

1. tax; toll; fare (such as a crossing fare or ferry toll); entrance fee
2. (historical) a tithe or tax on the yield of rice fields (specifically in government lands, traditionally 10 bundles out of 100)
3. (historical) freight fare for goods shipped by prauw (traditional boat)

• Cense, A. A. (1979), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek [Makasar-Dutch dictionary], 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

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

sima

1. (geology) sima

• "sima" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), 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

Weak:

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “sīma”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second 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^[8]:

     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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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sima class IX (plural sima class X)

1. (dialectal) synonym of ugali

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

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈsimaʔ/ [ˈsiː.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, 2018

• mais, amis, Siam, asim, misa

sima class 9 (plural sima class 10)

1. nshima (porridge made from maize or sorghum)

• çima
• zhima

From Latin cyma. Compare Italian cima.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsima/
• Hyphenation: si‧ma

sima

1. top, peak, summit

• “sima”, in el Galepin – www.elgalepin.com

From Proto-Finnic *siima.

sima

1. fishing line

Inflection of sima (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.	sima
genitive sing.	siman
partitive sing.	simad
partitive plur.	simoid
	singular	plural
nominative	sima	simad
accusative	siman	simad
genitive	siman	simoiden
partitive	simad	simoid
essive-instructive	siman	simoin
translative	simaks	simoikš
inessive	simas	simoiš
elative	simaspäi	simoišpäi
illative	simaha	simoihe
adessive	simal	simoil
ablative	simalpäi	simoilpäi
allative	simale	simoile
abessive	simata	simoita
comitative	simanke	simoidenke
prolative	simadme	simoidme
approximative I	simanno	simoidenno
approximative II	simannoks	simoidennoks
egressive	simannopäi	simoidennopäi
terminative I	simahasai	simoihesai
terminative II	simalesai	simoilesai
terminative III	simassai	—
additive I	simahapäi	simoihepäi
additive II	simalepäi	simoilepäi

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “леска”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[9], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

sima

1. water

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-díma (“to be extinguished, to extinguish”), from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *dim- (“to extinguish”).

-sima (infinitive kusima, perfective -simile)

1. (ambitransitive) to switch off (technology)
2. to extinguish a fire

• -simasya

• Ciyawo - English Dictionary: Dikishonale ja Ŵakulijiganya
• Padre Pedro Dupeyron (1880), Pequeno Vademecum da Lingua Bantu na Provincia de Moçambique ou Breve Estudo da Lingua Chi-Yao ou Adjaua‎^[10], Administração do Novo Mensageiro do Coraçao de Jesus, page 161