# sip
## Translingual
### Symbol

sip
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Sikkimese.

### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Sikkimese terms

## English
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sippen, of uncertain origin. Compare with Low German sippen (“to sip”). Possibly from a variant of Middle English suppen (“to drink, sip”) (see sup) or perhaps from Old English sipian, sypian (“to take in moisture, soak, macerate”), from Proto-Germanic *sipōną (“to drip, trickle”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out, trickle, leak out”). Compare also Old High German supfen (“to drink, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną (“to sip, intake”).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: sĭp, IPA: /sɪp/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪp

### Noun

sip (plural sips)
* A small mouthful of drink
* An event at which people drink alcohol in small, usually sub-intoxicating amounts.
** 1985 April 20, Joseph Beam, “Black Men Loving Black Men: The Revolutionary Act of the Eighties”, in Gay Community News, page 5:Earl is always a good time. His appearance at parties, whether it's a smart cocktail sip or a basement gig, is mandatory.

#### Translations
### Verb

sip (third-person singular simple present sips, present participle sipping, simple past and past participle sipped)
* (transitive) To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
** [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, “In the Vault”, in Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC, pages 62–63:He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.
** 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
** 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
* (intransitive) To drink a small quantity.
** 1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:[She] rais'd it to her mouth with sober grace; / Then, sipping, offered to the next in place.
* To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
** 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.
* (Scotland, US, dated) Alternative form of seep
* (figurative) To consume slowly.
** 1995, Richard North, Life on a Modern Planet: A Manifesto for Progress‎, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 80:Sales of lightbulbs which sip electricity, and whose increased cost in the shops is easily paid for over their lifetime, used to double every year; in 1990/1991, they leapt sevenfold.
** 2008 July 3, “The presidential election: White men can vote”, in The Economist‎:It makes a small car, the Chevy Cobalt, which sips petrol in moderation and is therefore selling well.
** 2014 October 20, Erik Hyrkas, "Energy Vampires are Attacking Your Home – Here’s How to Stop Them" (Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy)
    Even when turned off, these devices can idly sip electricity from your outlet costing you money.

#### Synonyms

* nurse
* See also Thesaurus:drink

#### Derived terms

* latte-sipping
* paint and sip
* sip and puff
* sip-and-see
* sip-and-see party

#### Translations

Aklanon: higop
Arabic: تَجَرَّعَ (tajarraʕa), مَزّ (mazz), كَرَع (karaʕ), رَشَفَ (rašafa), حَسَا (ḥasā), تَمَصّصَ, تَحَسّى, اِمْتَصّ (imtaṣṣ), اِرْتَشَفَ (irtašafa), اِحْتَسَى (iḥtasā)
Aromanian: sorbu
Bikol Central: higop (bcl)
Bulgarian: сръбвам (bg) (srǎbvam), отпивам (bg) (otpivam)
Catalan: xarrupar (ca)
Cebuano: higop, supsop
Chinese:
Mandarin: 抿 (zh) (mǐn), 啜 (zh)
Czech: srkat (cs) impf
Danish: sippe, nippe
Dutch: nippen (nl)
Egyptian: (jmḥ), (ndb)
Esperanto: trinketi
Estonian: rüüpama
Finnish: siemailla (fi)
French: siroter (fr)
Galician: beberricar
German: nippen (de)
Hebrew: לָגַם (he) (lagám)
Higaonon: sinopsop
Hungarian: kortyol (hu)
Icelandic: bergja
Ido: drinketar
Isnag: ixup
Italian: sorbire (it), sorseggiare
Japanese: すする (ja) (susuru)
Latin: sorbillō, dēlībō
Macedonian: срка (srka), сркнува (srknuva)
Malay: hirup (ms)
Maltese: ssippja
Mongolian: амтлах (mn) (amtlax)
Portuguese: bebericar (pt), sorver (pt)
Punjabi: ਚੂਸਣਾ (cūsṇā)
Quechua: ch'uqchuy, upiy
Romanian: sorbi (ro)
Russian: пригуби́ть (ru) (prigubítʹ)
Spanish: sorber (es)
Swedish: smutta (sv), läppja (sv)
Tagalog: higop
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Thai: จิบ (th) (jìp), ซด (th) (sót)
Turkish: yudumlamak (tr)
Vietnamese: hớp (vi)
Western Bukidnon Manobo: hiɣup
Zazaki: qult kerden :

### See also

* seep
* siphon

### Anagrams

* IPS, IPs, ISP, Isp, PIs, PSI, SPI, iPS, isp, pis, psi

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsip]

### Interjection

sip
* (informal) yep

## Dutch
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

sip (comparative sipper, superlative sipst)
* sad, subdued
    Synonyms: droevig, treurig

#### Declension
## Indonesian
### Etymology

From English safe, from Middle English sauf, safe, saf, saaf, from Old French sauf, saulf, salf (“safe”), from Latin salvus (“whole, safe”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole, every”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsɪp]
* Hyphenation: sip

### Adjective

sip
* (colloquial) safe.
** not in danger; out of harm's reach.
    Synonym: aman
** free from risk.
    Synonym: terjamin
** reliable.
    Synonyms: mantap, elok, baik, sempurna

### Further reading

* “sip” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* sip-dhúntóir

### Etymology

From English zip.

### Noun

sip f (genitive singular sipe, nominative plural sipeanna)
* zip, zipper, zip fastener

#### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
sip
sipeanna
vocative
a ship
a shipeanna
genitive
sipe
sipeanna
dative
sip
sipeanna
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an tsip
na sipeanna
genitive
na sipe
na sipeanna
dative
leis an tsip don tsip
leis na sipeanna :

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sip”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “sip”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

## Spanish
### Etymology

Possibly a calque of English yep.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsip/ [ˈsip]
* Rhymes: -ip
* Syllabification: sip

### Interjection

sip
* (informal, neologism) yep, yeah, uh-huh

#### See also

* nop

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English ship.

### Noun

sip
* ship