sika

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːkə/

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• Rhymes: -iːkə
• Homophone: seeker (non-rhotic accents)

From Japanese 鹿 (shika, “deer”).

sika (plural sikas or sika)

1. Cervus nippon, a deer found in the forests of East Asia

   Synonyms: Japanese deer, sika deer

• Sika

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sika (plural sikas or sika)

1. A traditional Bangladeshi hanging basket
   • 2003, Sirajul Islam, Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh‎, volume 7, →ISBN, page 207:

     In the past sikas were made within the family and its purchase and sale was not so noticeable.

• Often italicized as a foreign borrowing.

• Sika Deer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cervus nippon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Cervus nippon on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• AKIs, KIAS, KIAs, Saki, aiks, saki

• IPA^(key): [ˈsika]
• Rhymes: -ika
• Hyphenation: si‧ka

sika (accusative singular sikan, plural sikaj, accusative plural sikajn)

1. Sikh
   • 2002 February, GMA, “Irlandaj sikoj razas sin”, in Monato, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17:

     Tiele, la sikaj viroj malĝoje ĉesas surporti turbanon kaj unuafoje en la vivo vizitas barbirojn por fortondigi la hararon kaj barbon.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• siko

From Proto-Finnic *cika. Cognate with Estonian siga, Livonian sigā, Võro tsiga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsikɑ/, [ˈs̠ikɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ikɑ
• Syllabification^(key): si‧ka

sika

1. pig, swine
2. Synonym of sianliha (“pork”)
3. (derogatory) pig, swine (term for a person)

   Synonym: sikailija

4. (derogatory, slang) police officer

• “sika”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• -ksia, aski, kasi, kisa

sika

1. to sew

Cognates include Fon síká, Saxwe Gbe sìká, Adja shika, Ewe sika. Compare Akan sika (“gold, money”), Kabiyé sika, Gur Lama sɨka, Nkonya sika (“gold, money”), Akebu sɩka-yǝ, Ifè siká, Gikyode sika (“gold, money”), Tem siká, Nawdm sìká, Hanga suga

• IPA^(key): /sí.ká/

síká (plural síká lɛ́ or síká lẹ́)

1. gold

Borrowed from Esperanto seka, French sec, Italian secco, Spanish seco, ultimately from Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-. The initial e was changed to i so not to interfere with sekar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsika/

sika

1. dry (not wet)

   Antonyms: aquoza, humida

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ka/
• Hyphenation: si‧ka

síka (plural siksika)

1. dysentery, diarrhea

   Synonym: buris

• agsika

From Proto-Austronesian *si and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ka.

• IPA^(key): /siˈka/

siká

1. Second-person singular absolutive independent pronoun; you

• siksika

From Proto-Finnic *cika. Cognates include Finnish sika and Estonian siga.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈsikɑ/, [ˈs̠ikɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈsikɑ/, [ˈʃiɡ̊ɑ]
• Rhymes: -ikɑ
• Hyphenation: si‧ka

sika

1. pig
2. A certain card game, where players take turns drawing cards from the deck and try to discard them.

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 59
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 523
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 82

sika

1. place, locality

sika

1. now, current

sika

1. medicine

-sika^?

1. to cut

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

sika (present tense sik or sikar or siker, past tense seik or sika or sikt, supine sike or sika or sikt, past participle siken or sika or sikt, present participle sikande, imperative sik)

1. alternative form of sike

sika

1. definite singular of sik f
2. definite plural of sik n

• IPA^(key): /ˈɕi.ka/
• Rhymes: -ika
• Syllabification: si‧ka

sika

1. third-person singular present of sikać

From Proto-Finnic *cika. Cognate with Finnish sika, Estonian siga, Võro tsiga.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈsikɑ/, [ˈsʲikɑ]
• Rhymes: -ikɑ
• Hyphenation: si‧ka

sika

1. pig

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

-síka

1. (transitive) to cut

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

-síka

1. (transitive) to cut
2. (transitive) to imitate, to mimic

   Synonym: -lingisa

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