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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."

• sikerly
• sikerness

siker

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

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

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.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃikɛr]

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• Hyphenation: si‧ker
• Rhymes: -ɛr

siker (plural sikerek)

1. success

• 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

From Arabic سَكَرَ (sakara).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪ.kɛr/

siker (imperfect jisker)

1. to get drunk
   • 2008, Trevor Żahra, Il-Ġenn li Jżommni f’Sikti, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:

     Jien, li fl-imħabba kelli biss sensiela twila ta’ diżappunti; jien li kont bdejt nemmen li qatt mhu se nsib lil min iħobbni, issa kont ħassejt li f’salt wieħed seħħ miraklu. Kont skirt bl-imħabba.

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2. to be overwatered (trees)

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsikər/

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

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

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

siker (comparative sikerer)

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

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

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

siker

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

siker

1. present tense of sike

siker f

1. indefinite plural of sik

siker

1. present of sika

siker

1. third-person singular indicative aorist of sikmek