# siker
## English
### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

siker
* Alternative spelling of sicker (“certain”)
* 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
* Alternative spelling of sicker (“certainly”)
* 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: [ˈʃikɛr]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: si‧ker
* Rhymes: -ɛr

### Noun

siker (plural sikerek)
* success

#### Derived terms

* sikeredik
* sikertelen
* sikerül
* sikerű
* balsiker
* bombasiker
* kasszasiker
* sikerélmény
* sikerfilm
* sikerhajhászás
* sikerkönyv
* sikerlista
* sikerorientált
* sikerszakma
* sikersztori
* sikertörténet
* világsiker
* 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: /ˈsɪ.kɛr/

### Verb

siker (imperfect jisker)
* 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.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* to be overwatered (trees)

#### Conjugation
## 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: /ˈsikər/

### Adjective

siker (plural and weak singular sikere, comparative sikerer, superlative sikerest)
* safe, secure (not harmful or dangerous):
** sinless, not spiritually dangerous
** fortified, secure, guarded
* reliable, long-lasting, of good quality:
** reliable, dependable, trustworthy, useful
** unerring, unfailing, continuous
** Easily predictable, inevitable, certain
* firm, tough, unbreakable, sound
* actual, real, true not feigned or ephemeral
* certain, sure, assured
* 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)
* safely, carefully
* certainly, surely, inevitably
* assuredly, with sureness
* 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
* indefinite plural of sik
* indefinite plural of sik

### Verb

siker
* present tense of sike

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

siker f
* indefinite plural of sik

### Verb

siker
* present of sika

## Turkish
### Verb

siker
* third-person singular indicative aorist of sikmek