cima

English

Noun

cima sg

1. Obsolete spelling of cyma

Anagrams

• -amic, -icam, ACMI, CMIA, Maci, aMCI, amic, cami, iMac, mica

Amis

Pronoun

cima

1. (interrogative) who

References

“Entry #”, in 阿美語中部方言辭典 [Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis]‎ (in Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples, 2021

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cȳma, from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)
• Rhymes: -ima

Noun

cima f (plural cimes)

1. summit, peak

   Synonym: cim

Further reading

• “cima” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cima” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cima, from Latin cȳma, from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “something swollen; wave, billow”), from κύω (kúō, “I am pregnant, conceive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθima̝/, (western) /ˈsima̝/

Noun

cima f (plural cimas)

1. top
2. peak, summit

   Synonyms: cume, cumio

Derived terms

References

• “cima” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cima” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cima” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cima” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cima” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ma/
• Rhymes: -ima
• Hyphenation: cì‧ma

Etymology 1

From Latin cȳma, from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma).

Noun

cima f (plural cime)

1. top
2. peak, spur
3. summit
4. (nautical) hawser, line, rope, cable

Derived terms

• cimare
• cimette

Descendants

• → Tunisian Arabic: شيما (šīma, “hawser, line, rope”)

References

Etymology 2

Verb

cima

1. inflection of cimare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• cami, mica

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cima, from Latin cȳma, from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “something swollen; wave, billow”), from κύω (kúō, “to be pregnant, conceive”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ci‧ma

Noun

cima f (plural cimas)

1. top, summit

Derived terms

Sakizaya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡si.ˈma/,

Pronoun

cima

1. (interrogative) who

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin cȳma, from Ancient Greek. Compare Italian cima.

Noun

cima f (plural cimi)

1. peak, summit (highest place)

   pigghiari li cimi d'àrvulu ― to get angry, furious; to see red (literally, “to take the tree's peaks”)

   di cima 'n funnu ― from top to bottom

   a li cimi cimi ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. genius (someone excellent in a given field)
3. (winemaking) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “cima”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 854
• Pasqualino (c. 1790) “cima”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 319
• Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “cìma”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 173

Southern Ndebele

Verb

-címa

1. to extinguish, to switch off

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθima/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈsima/

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: ci‧ma
• Homophone: (Latin America) sima

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish cima, from Latin cȳma (“young sprout, hollow sphere”) (compare French cime (“peak, summit, top of a tree”), Italian cima (“top, peak, summit”), Portuguese cima (“top”), Romanian ciumă (“plague, pestilence”)), from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “something swollen; wave, billow”), from κύω (kúō, “to be pregnant, to conceive”).

Noun

cima f (plural cimas)

1. top

   en la cima del mundo ― on top of the world

2. peak, summit, mountaintop (top of a mountain or hill)

   Synonyms: cumbre, pico

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cima

1. inflection of cimar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Swazi

Verb

-címa

1. to put out, to turn off the light

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic جِمَاع (jimāʕ).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ci‧ma

Noun

cima (definite accusative cimayı, plural cimalar)

1. (dated) sexual intercourse

Declension

References

• “cima”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

Xhosa

Verb

-cîma

1. (transitive) to extinguish

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Zulu

Verb

-címa

1. (transitive) to extinguish (fire), to put out (light), to quench
2. (transitive) to assuage (thirst etc.)
3. (transitive) to switch off, to turn off

   Synonym: -cisha

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “cima”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “cima (3.9)”