سيخ

See also: سیخ, شيخ, and شیخ

Arabic

الفِلْفِل وَأَسْيَاخ الدَجَاج (al-filfil waʾasyāḵ ad-dajāj)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian سیخ (six, spit, skewer).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /siːx/

Noun

سِيخ (sīḵ) m (plural أَسْيَاخ (ʾasyāḵ))

  1. spit, brochette, skewer
    Synonym: سَفُّود (saffūd)
  2. (chess) skewer

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Punjabi ਸਿੱਖ (sikh).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /siːx/

Noun

سِيخ (sīḵ) m (collective, singulative سِيخِيّ (sīḵiyy))

  1. the Sikh nation; Sikhs

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), سيخ”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 711–712
  • Freytag, Georg (1833), سيخ”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 382
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), سيخ”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 521
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), سيخ”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 620
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