See also: cìcì, cǐcì, číči, and çıçi

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

Sound-symbolic.[1] Compare German Zitze, Serbo-Croatian сиса, Bulgarian ци́ца (cíca), Polish cycek, Czech cecek, Hebrew ציצי (tsítsi), Romanian țâță, Italian zizza etc.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡sit͡si]
  • Hyphenation: ci‧ci
  • Rhymes: -t͡si

Noun edit

cici (plural cicik)

  1. (colloquial) tit (a woman’s breast)
    Synonyms: mell, csöcs, csecs

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative cici cicik
accusative cicit ciciket
dative cicinek ciciknek
instrumental cicivel cicikkel
causal-final ciciért cicikért
translative cicivé cicikké
terminative ciciig cicikig
essive-formal ciciként cicikként
essive-modal
inessive ciciben cicikben
superessive cicin ciciken
adessive cicinél ciciknél
illative cicibe cicikbe
sublative cicire cicikre
allative cicihez cicikhez
elative ciciből cicikből
delative ciciről cicikről
ablative cicitől ciciktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
cicié ciciké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
ciciéi cicikéi
Possessive forms of cici
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. cicim cicijeim
2nd person sing. cicid cicijeid
3rd person sing. cicije cicijei
1st person plural cicink cicijeink
2nd person plural cicitek cicijeitek
3rd person plural cicijük cicijeik

References edit

  1. ^ cici in Gerstner, Károly (ed.). Új magyar etimológiai szótár. (’New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian’). Beta version. Budapest, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet / Magyar Nyelvtudományi Kutatóközpont, 2011–2022. (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary). Language abbreviations

Further reading edit

  • cici 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
  • cici in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Ancient Greek κίκι (kíki), itself from Egyptian kꜣkꜣ.

Noun edit

cīci n (indeclinable)

  1. castor, croton

Synonyms edit

References edit

  • cici”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cici in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Slovak edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cici f

  1. dative/locative singular of cica

Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish جیجی (cici), reduplication of onomatopoeic ci.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

cici

  1. cute, loveable

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

Yilan Creole edit

Etymology edit

From Japanese ちんちん (chinchin, penis).

Noun edit

cici

  1. male genitalia

References edit

  • 真田信治 [Shinji Sanada] (2015) “宜蘭クレオールにおけるsound substitutionについて [On the sound substitution of Yilan Creole]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1]