siker

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See also: sikér

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

siker

  1. Alternative spelling of sicker (“certain”)
  2. Alternative spelling of sicker (“secure”)
    • 1847 (publication date), James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Dictionary of Archaisms and Provincialisms from the Fourteenth Century Vol. II., pages 741 and 743:
      "That schip had a ful siker mast,
      And a sayl strong and large."

Derived terms

Adverb

siker

  1. Alternative spelling of sicker (“certainly”)
  2. Alternative spelling of sicker (“securely”)

Anagrams

Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from sikeres, which originally meant "having high gluten content" (of wheat), but today normally means "successful". The back-formation was done by splitting the adjectival suffix -es.

Pronunciation

Noun

siker (plural sikerek)

  1. success

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative siker sikerek
accusative sikert sikereket
dative sikernek sikereknek
instrumental sikerrel sikerekkel
causal-final sikerért sikerekért
translative sikerré sikerekké
terminative sikerig sikerekig
essive-formal sikerként sikerekként
essive-modal — —
inessive sikerben sikerekben
superessive sikeren sikereken
adessive sikernél sikereknél
illative sikerbe sikerekbe
sublative sikerre sikerekre
allative sikerhez sikerekhez
elative sikerből sikerekből
delative sikerről sikerekről
ablative sikertől sikerektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		sikeré sikereké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		sikeréi sikerekéi
Possessive forms of siker
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. sikerem sikereim
2nd person sing. sikered sikereid
3rd person sing. sikere sikerei
1st person plural sikerünk sikereink
2nd person plural sikeretek sikereitek
3rd person plural sikerük sikereik

Derived terms

Compound words
Expressions

Further reading

  • siker 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

Maltese

Root
s-k-r
3 terms

Etymology

From Arabic سَكَرَ (sakara).

Pronunciation

Verb

siker (imperfect jisker)

  1. to get drunk
  2. to be overwatered (trees)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of siker
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m skirt skirt siker skirna skirtu sikru
f sikret
imperfect m nisker tisker jisker niskru tiskru jiskru
f tisker
imperative isker iskru

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old English sicor, from Proto-West Germanic *sikur, from Latin sēcūrus. Doublet of sure.

Pronunciation

Adjective

siker (plural and weak singular sikere, comparative sikerer, superlative sikerest)

  1. safe, secure (not harmful or dangerous):
    1. sinless, not spiritually dangerous
    2. fortified, secure, guarded
  2. reliable, long-lasting, of good quality:
    1. reliable, dependable, trustworthy, useful
    2. unerring, unfailing, continuous
    3. Easily predictable, inevitable, certain
  3. firm, tough, unbreakable, sound
  4. actual, real, true not feigned or ephemeral
  5. certain, sure, assured
  6. cured, healed, health

Descendants

  • English: sicker (obsolete, dialectal)
  • Scots: sicker, siccar
  • → Welsh: sicr

References

Adverb

siker (comparative sikerer)

  1. safely, carefully
  2. certainly, surely, inevitably
  3. assuredly, with sureness
  4. powerfully

Descendants

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

siker

  1. indefinite plural of sik
  2. indefinite plural of sik

Verb

siker

  1. present tense of sike

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

siker f

  1. indefinite plural of sik

Verb

siker

  1. present of sika

Turkish

Verb

siker

  1. third-person singular indicative aorist of sikmek
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