سمك

From the root س م ك (s-m-k), meaning “to be elevated or lofty”, “to be supported or held up”, “to sustain”; hence the meaning of “a source of sustenance”, “a mainstay or staple-food”. Cognate with Hebrew סָמַך (samak, “to lean, lay, rest, support”) attested in the Bible with the similar semantic sense “to sustain” or “to nourish”.

• IPA^(key): /sa.mak/

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سَمَك • (samak) m (collective, singulative سَمَكَة f (samaka), plural أَسْماك (ʔasmāk) or سِمَاك (simāk) or سُمُوك (sumūk))

1. fish

   السَّرْدِينَ عِبَارَةً عَنْ سَمَكِ زَيْتَي صَغِيرٍ يُمْكِنُ أَكْلُهُ بِالْكَامِلِ.

   as-sardīna ʕibāratan ʕan samaki zaytay ṣaḡīrin yumkinu ʔakluhu bi-l-kāmili.

   Sardines are small, oily fish that can be eaten whole.

• Gulf Arabic: سمچ (simič, simač)
• Iraqi Arabic: سمچ (simač)
• → Ge'ez: ሰመክ (sämäk)
• → Ottoman Turkish: سمك (semek)
  • Turkish: semek
• → Swahili: samaki

From the root س م ك (s-m-k) in the sense of "to nourish", "to make well-fed", "to fatten up livestock".

سَمَّكَ • (sammaka) II, non-past يُسَمِّكُ‎ (yusammiku)

1. to thicken

سُمْك • (sumk) m

1. thickness

From the root س م ك (s-m-k), in the sense of "to be elevated or lofty", "to be supported or held up".

سَمْك • (samk) m

1. roof, ceiling

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “سمك”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1430-1431
• H5564 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Borrowed from Arabic سَمَك (samak, “fish”).

سمك • (semek) (plural سماك (simak))

1. fish, a cold-blooded animal that lives in water

   Synonyms: بالق (balık), حوت (hut), ماهی (mahi)

• Turkish: semek

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “semek2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4137
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “semek”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1121
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 692
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Piscis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1304
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2673
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1078

From Arabic سَمَك (samak).

• IPA^(key): /sa.mak/,

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سمك • (samak) m (collective, singulative سمكة f (samake), paucal سمكات (samakāt))

1. fish