سیم

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian (sim).

Noun

سیم • (sim)

silver, a lustrous, white, metallic element
Synonyms: فضه (fudda), كومش (gümüş)
money and coins made of silver
Synonym: درم (direm)
silverlike thread, lace or metalware, wire

Derived terms

سیمدوز (sim-duz, “one who stitches with silverlike threads”)
سیمذقن (sim-zakan, “silver-chinned”)
سیمین (simin, “of silver; silver-like”)

Descendants

Turkish: sim
→ Armenian: սիմ (sim)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sim5”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4243
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سیم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 710
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Argentum”, 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 82
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سیم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1736
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sim1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سیم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1103

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian ((ʾ)sym /⁠(a)sēm⁠/, “silver”), from Old Persian 𐎿𐎡𐎹𐎶𐎶 (s-i-y-m-m /⁠siyamam⁠/), from Ancient Greek ἄσημον (ásēmon, “silverware”), neuter form of ἄσημος (ásēmos, “pure, unmarked”). Akin to Parthian hsym (hasēm, “silver”), Bactrian σιμινο (simino, “made of silver, silverware”).

Pronunciation

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Classical reading^?	sīm
Dari reading^?	sīm
Iranian reading^?	sim
Tajik reading^?	sim

Noun

سیم • (sim) (plural سیم‌ها (sim-hâ))

wire
― sim-e telefon ― telephone wire

― sim-e xârdâr ― barbed wire
string; cord
― sim-e viyolon ― violin string
(original sense, now poetic) silver
Synonym: نقره (noqre)
- c. 1850, Mirzā Ḥabib-Allāh Širāzi Qāʾāni, وله ایضاً فی مدحه:
  نرگسک آن طشت سیم باز به سر برنهاد
  بر سر سیمینه طشت طاسک زر برنهاد
  nargesak ân tašt-e sim bâz be sar barnehâd
  bar sar-e simine tasht tâsak-e zar barnehâd
  The little narcissus has again put that silver basin on its head
  Upon the silvery head, the basin has put a little golden bowl
(now poetic) wealth; money

Derived terms

بی‌سیم (bi-sim)
سیم خاردار (sim(-e) xârdâr)
سیم ظرفشویی (sim(-e) zarfšuyi)
سیم و زر (sim o zar)
سیم کشیدن (sim kešidan)
سیمین (simin)
سیمینه (simine)
سیم‌پیچ (sim-pič)
سیم‌کشی (sim-keši)
ماهی سیم (mâhi-ye sim)

Descendants

→ Gujarati: સીમ (sīm)

References

Philip Huyse (2012 February 23) “Greek Loanwords in Middle Iranian Languages”, in Encyclopaedia Iranica‎

Etymology 2

Short for (mâhi-ye sim), literally “silver fish”, but its old form was (šim).

Noun

سیم • (sim) (plural سیم‌ها (sim-hâ))

bream

Etymology 3

From (si, “thirty”) + (-om, “-th, -eth (ordinal number suffix))”).

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Classical reading^?	siyum
Dari reading^?	siyum
Iranian reading^?	siyom
Tajik reading^?	siyum

Adjective

سیم • (siyom)

thirtieth

Etymology 4

Inherited from Middle Persian (/⁠seyom⁠/).

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Classical reading^?	siyum
Dari reading^?	siyum
Iranian reading^?	seyom
Tajik reading^?	siyum

Noun

سیم • (seyom)

Archaic form of (sevvom, “third”)

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