nim

From Middle English nimen (“to take”), from Old English niman (“to take”), from Proto-Germanic *nemaną (“to take”), from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to give or take one's due”). Cognate with West Frisian nimme (“to take”), Low German nehmen (“to take”), Dutch nemen (“to take”), German nehmen (“to take”), Danish nemme (“to learn, grasp”). Related to numb, nimble.

• IPA^(key): /nɪm/

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• Rhymes: -ɪm

nim (third-person singular simple present nims, present participle nimming, simple past nimmed or nam, past participle nimmed or nomen or num or numb)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To take (in all senses); to seize.
   • 1962 (quoting 1381 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:

     dorrẹ̄, dōrī adj. & n. […] cook. glazed with a yellow substance; pome(s ~, sopes ~. […] 1381 Pegge Cook. Recipes p. 114: For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons […] Nym wyn […] toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To take one's way; to go.
3. (archaic, slang, transitive) To filch, steal.
   • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1

     They'll question Mars, and, by his look, \ Detect who 'twas that nimm'd a cloak;

4. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To walk with short, quick strides; trip along.

• benim
• fornim
• forthnim
• outnim
• undernim

• nimble
• numb

nim (uncountable)

1. A game in which players take turns removing objects from heaps.

• nimber

• INM, MIN, Min, NMI, min, min.

nim

1. Romanization of 𐌽𐌹𐌼

Borrowed from Arabic نِيم‎ (nīm), from Hindi नीम (nīm).

nîm m

1. neem tree

• ni'm (Courland)

From Proto-Finnic *nimi.

nim

1. name

• IPA^(key): /nʲim/

nim (only after a preposition)

1. instrumental of wón
2. instrumental of wóno
3. dative of wóni

• (dative of wóni): jim

• IPA^(key): /n͈ʲiṽʲ/

nim

1. dative singular of nem

• IPA^(key): /ɲim/

nim

1. instrumental/locative singular of on
2. instrumental/locative singular of ono

• Appendix:Polish pronouns

nim

1. before

   Synonym: zanim

• nim in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnĩ/
• Hyphenation: nim

From Hindi नीम (nīm), from Sanskrit निम्ब (nimba).

nim m (plural nins)

1. neem (Azadirachta indica, an evergreen tree of India)

Blend of não (“no”) +‎ sim (“yes”). Compare German Jein.

nim (not comparable)

1. (humorous, neologism) yes and no

nim m (plural nins)

1. (humorous, neologism) yes and no

From English animal (which ultimately derives from Latin animal)

• IPA^(key): [nim]

nim (nominative plural nims)

1. animal (Animalia)

• hinim
• jinim
• nimil
• nimül

• bakter
• böd
• dinosaur
• fit
• fösil
• lif
• mafib
• räptul
• ruböd
• rulif
• süganim