siker

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

• sikerly
• sikerness

Adverb

siker

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

Anagrams

• kiers, Sirek, Kiser, skier, keirs, Keirs, Kiers, Rieks, Riske, keris, rikes, Rikes

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃikɛr]

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• Hyphenation: si‧ker
• Rhymes: -ɛr

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

• sikeredik
• sikertelen
• sikerül
• sikerű

 

Compound words

• balsiker
• bombasiker
• kasszasiker
• sikerélmény
• sikerfilm
• sikerhajhászás
• sikerkönyv
• sikerlista
• sikerorientált
• sikerszakma
• sikersztori
• sikertörténet
• világsiker

 

Expressions

• a jó kezdet fél siker
• sikerrel jár

 

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪ.kɛr/

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

• cykyr, secir, seker, sekir, sekire, sekor, sekyr, sicer, sicker, sicur, sikir, sikyr, syker, sykir, sykyr, ziker

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsikər/

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

• “siker, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-22.

Adverb

siker (comparative sikerer)

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

Descendants

• English: sicker (obsolete, dialectal)
• Scots: sicker, siccar

References

• “siker, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-22.

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