# nim
## English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɪm/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪm

#### Verb

nim (third-person singular simple present nims, present participle nimming, simple past nimmed or nam or nom, past participle nimmed or nom or nomen or num)
* (obsolete, transitive) To take or seize.
** 1547 (original; printed 1870), Andrew Boorde, The First Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge, page 122:
    Ich cham a Cornysche man, al[e] che can brew; […] Nym me a quart of ale, that iche may it of sup.
** 1566–1573 (original; printed 1873), John Partridge, The Hystorie of the Moste Noble Knight Plasidas, and Other Rare Pieces, page 106:
    Then Alfyne to the court Of Syleuma doth come, And Pandauola in her armes Her Alfyne hath up num And kisseth him full ofte […]
** 2017, Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 155:Gryndall carefully sets out the difference between seizing or nimming a bird (an outcome that would constitute a partly successful flight) and taking the bird outright: 'And if your Hawke noume [nim, seize] a foule, and the foule breake from her, she hath discomfited many feathers of the foule, and is broken away: but in kindly speech you shall say, your hawke hath noumed or seased a foule, and not taken it'.
* (archaic, slang, transitive) To filch, steal, pilfer.
** 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 1:They'll question Mars, and, by his look, Detect who 'twas that nimm'd a cloak;
** 1785, Hutton, Bran New Wark, I. 305, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273:
    Nimming and niftering whativver he can try his fists on.
** 1821, Apuleius, The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius, of Medaura, page 131:But while he fell in some brave exploit, you, I suppose, being provident rogues and thieves of discretion, were on the sure lay, pilfering little thefts among the mob, fearfully nimming a cloak or rifling some old woman's bulk of a stock to set up a piece-broker's shop.
** 1824 (edition; original 1790), Nairne, Tales, 37, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273:
    They nim a pig, a duck, or fowl.
** 1854, Oliver Oldham, Oldham's Amusing and Instructive Reader: A Course of Reading, Original and Selected, in Prose and Poetry, Wherein Wit, Humor, and Mirth are Made the Means of Awakening Interest, and Imparting Instructon : for the Use of Schools and Academies, page 110:Shall we go nim a horse, Tom,—what dost think? […] Nim? yes, yes, yes, let's nim with all my heart; I see no harm in nimming, for my part; […] Were it my lord mayor's hourse—I'd nim it first. [...A horse] they stole, or, as they called it, nimmed, Just as the twilight all the landscape dimmed. […] What is most likely, is that both these elves Were, in like manner, halter-nimmed themselves.
* (intransitive, UK dialectal) To walk with short, quick strides; trip along.
** 1856, Thompson, Hist. Boston, page 716, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273:
    The old lady does nim along.
    1949, Wilfrid J. Halliday, Arthur Stanley Umpleby, The White Rose Garland of Yorkshire Dialect Verse and Local and Folk-lore Rhymes (quoting Irene Sutcliffe), page 111:Ah had set myself doon where the aums meet aboon, When Jinny jamp oop, and ganned nimming alang

##### Related terms

* benim
* nimble
* nimmer
* numb

#### Noun

nim (uncountable)
* A game in which players take turns removing objects from heaps.

##### Derived terms

* nimber

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

nim (plural nims)
* Alternative form of neem (“Indian tree”)

### See also

* cu-nim

### Anagrams

* INM, MIN, Min, NMI, min, min.

## Afar
### Etymology

From ní (“our”) +‎ -m.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnim/ [ˈnɪm]
* Hyphenation: nim

### Pronoun

ním (predicative níimi or niimí)
* ours

#### See also
### References

* E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “nim”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
* Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2004) Parlons Afar: Langue et Culture, L'Hammartan, →ISBN, page 67
* Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

## Baatonum
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nīm/

### Noun

nim (m-class)
* water

#### Derived terms

* nim buroru (“species of dove”)
* nim diira (“to drown”)
* nim duroru (“waterlily”)
* nim goobuu (“the plant Pistia stratiotes”)
* nim gua (“common moorhen”)
* nim kureru (“tidal wave”)
* nim tora (“stream”)
* nim tĩa (“stream; creek”)
* nim wɔ̃ku (“ocean”)
* nim nɔru (“thirst”)

### References

* Barassounon, Pierre, Biɔ, Sanu, Biɔ, Thébault, Goragui, Léonard, Soutar, Jean (2021 February 17) Dictionnaire Baatonum‎, Philadelphia: SIL International

## Cèmuhî
### Numeral

nim
* five

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɲɪm]

### Pronoun

nim
* dative plural of oni, ony, and ona (after a preposition)

## Finnish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English nim.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnim/, [ˈnim]
* Rhymes: -im
* Hyphenation: nim

### Noun

nim
* nim (game)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of nim (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
nimini
nimini
accusative
nom.
nimini
nimini
gen.
nimini
genitive
nimini
nimieni
partitive
nimiäni
nimejäni
inessive
nimissäni
nimeissäni
elative
nimistäni
nimeistäni
illative
nimiini
nimeihini
adessive
nimilläni
nimeilläni
ablative
nimiltäni
nimeiltäni
allative
nimilleni
nimeilleni
essive
niminäni
nimeinäni
translative
nimikseni
nimeikseni
abessive
nimittäni
nimeittäni
instructive
comitative
—nimeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
nimisi
nimisi
accusative
nom.
nimisi
nimisi
gen.
nimisi
genitive
nimisi
nimiesi
partitive
nimiäsi
nimejäsi
inessive
nimissäsi
nimeissäsi
elative
nimistäsi
nimeistäsi
illative
nimiisi
nimeihisi
adessive
nimilläsi
nimeilläsi
ablative
nimiltäsi
nimeiltäsi
allative
nimillesi
nimeillesi
essive
niminäsi
nimeinäsi
translative
nimiksesi
nimeiksesi
abessive
nimittäsi
nimeittäsi
instructive
comitative
—nimeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
nimimme
nimimme
accusative
nom.
nimimme
nimimme
gen.
nimimme
genitive
nimimme
nimiemme
partitive
nimiämme
nimejämme
inessive
nimissämme
nimeissämme
elative
nimistämme
nimeistämme
illative
nimiimme
nimeihimme
adessive
nimillämme
nimeillämme
ablative
nimiltämme
nimeiltämme
allative
nimillemme
nimeillemme
essive
niminämme
nimeinämme
translative
nimiksemme
nimeiksemme
abessive
nimittämme
nimeittämme
instructive
comitative
—nimeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
niminne
niminne
accusative
nom.
niminne
niminne
gen.
niminne
genitive
niminne
nimienne
partitive
nimiänne
nimejänne
inessive
nimissänne
nimeissänne
elative
nimistänne
nimeistänne
illative
nimiinne
nimeihinne
adessive
nimillänne
nimeillänne
ablative
nimiltänne
nimeiltänne
allative
nimillenne
nimeillenne
essive
niminänne
nimeinänne
translative
nimiksenne
nimeiksenne
abessive
nimittänne
nimeittänne
instructive
comitative
—nimeinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
niminsä
niminsä
accusative
nom.
niminsä
niminsä
gen.
niminsä
genitive
niminsä
nimiensä
partitive
nimiään nimiänsä
nimejään nimejänsä
inessive
nimissään nimissänsä
nimeissään nimeissänsä
elative
nimistään nimistänsä
nimeistään nimeistänsä
illative
nimiinsä
nimeihinsä
adessive
nimillään nimillänsä
nimeillään nimeillänsä
ablative
nimiltään nimiltänsä
nimeiltään nimeiltänsä
allative
nimilleen nimillensä
nimeilleen nimeillensä
essive
niminään niminänsä
nimeinään nimeinänsä
translative
nimikseen nimiksensä
nimeikseen nimeiksensä
abessive
nimittään nimittänsä
nimeittään nimeittänsä
instructive
comitative
—nimeineen nimeinensä :

#### Synonyms

* nim-peli

### Anagrams

* min

## Gothic
### Romanization

nim
* Romanization of 𐌽𐌹𐌼

## Hausa
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nîm/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [nɪ̂ŋ]

### Noun

nîm m
* neem tree

#### Descendants

* → Nupe: nímù

## K'iche'
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [nim]

### Adjective

nim
* big, great, enormous

#### Derived terms

* nimarik (“become big”, verb)
* nimarisaxik (“to cause to enlarge, embiggen”, verb)
* nimaq (“large (plural)”, adjective)
* unimal (“grandeur; size”)
* nim upam (“large, deep, profound”)
* nimaq’ij (“party, fiesta, birthday”)

### Further reading

* Diccionario K’iche‎ (in Spanish), Guatemala, 2001

## Livonian
### Alternative forms

* ni'm (Courland)

### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nimi.

### Noun

nim
* name

#### Declension
## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nʲim/

### Pronoun

nim (only after a preposition)
* instrumental of wón
* instrumental of wóno
* dative of wóni

#### Related terms

* (dative of wóni): jim

## Macanese
### Etymology

From Portuguese nem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /niŋ/

### Adverb

nim
* not even (introduces an emphatic negation)
    Miguel nim sábi papiâ bêm-fêto PatuáMiguel doesn't even know how to speak Macanese well
* do not even (introduces an emphatic negative command)
* neither … nor

### References

* https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

## Mam
### Adverb

nim
* much

## Middle High German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (before 13th CE) /ˈnim/

### Verb

nim
* second-person singular imperative of nëmen

## Mokilese
### Verb

nim (progressive nimnim)
* (transitive, intransitive) to drink

## Old English
### Verb

nim
* imperative singular of niman

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [n͈ʲiβ̃ʲ]

### Noun

nim
* dative singular of nem

### Mutation

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

## Old High German
### Verb

nim
* second-person singular imperative of nëman

## Ottawa
### Noun

nim anim
* dog

### References

Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 482

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɲim/
* Audio 1:(file)
* Audio 2:(file)
* Rhymes: -im
* Syllabification: nim

### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronoun

nim
* instrumental/locative of on
* instrumental/locative of ono
* dative of oni
* dative of one
These forms are used only after prepositions.

#### See also

* Appendix:Polish pronouns

### Etymology 2

Probably a clipping of zanim.

#### Conjunction

nim
* (literary) before
    Synonym: zanim

### Further reading

* nim in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* nim in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈnĩ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈnĩ/
* Rhymes: -ĩ
* Hyphenation: nim

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

nim m (plural nins)
* neem (Azadirachta indica, an evergreen tree of India)

### Etymology 2

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

#### Adverb

nim (not comparable)
* (humorous, neologism) yes and no

#### Noun

nim m (plural nins)
* (humorous, neologism) yes and no

## Q'eqchi
### Adjective

nim
* big, great

#### Derived terms

* nimank (“become big”, verb)
* nimob'resink (“to enlarge, embiggen”, verb)
* nimroq (“long”, adjective)
* ninqal (“grandeur; size”)

### Further reading

* Ch'ina tusleb' aatin q'eqchi'-kaxlan aatin ut kaxlan aatin-q'eqchi' (Guatemala, 1998)

## Slovak
### Alternative forms

* im

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɲim]

### Pronoun

nim
* dative of oni and ony

#### Usage notes

Used after prepositions.

## Suga
### Noun

nim
* water

## Sumerian
### Romanization

nim
* Romanization of 𒉏 (nim)

## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* nimm

### Etymology

From Old Swedish næmber (“apt, docile”), from Old Norse næmr, from Proto-Germanic *nāmjaz, derived from Proto-Germanic *nemaną (“to take”). Compare Danish Danish nem (“easy”) and Icelandic næmur (“docile, sensitive”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɪm/
* Rhymes: -ɪm

### Adjective

nim (comparative nimmare, superlative nimmast)
* (Scania) convenient, handy, practical, easy
** 2005, “Kamp för att få fram hemtjänstens mat [Struggle to get home care food delivered]”, in Sydsvenskan‎:– Den är ganska nim att köra. Man sitter högt och sådär.– It’s quite easy to drive. You sit high up and such.
** 2008, Anders Fagerström, “Vi grillar engångsgrillar [We use disposable grills]”, in Sydsvenskan‎:Men rätt hanterad är engångsgrillen utan tvekan en nim och trevlig sak på utflykten […]But handled properly, the disposable grill is without a doubt a convenient and nice thing to bring to an excursion […]
** 2010, “Hur var det att ta ut hojen igen? [What was it like to bring out your motorbike again?]”, in Sydsvenskan‎:Och så är det nimmt att komma fram vid vägarbeten och inne i stan när det är tjockt. Sen är det nästan alltid lätt att hitta en parkering också.And it’s also easy to get past the roadworks and get around inside the city when it’s crowded. It’s almost always easy to find parking too.
** 2017, “’Jag behövde förtroende och kärlek - och det fick jag direkt’ [’I needed trust and love - and I got it right away’]”, in Sydsvenskan‎:Sen är det klart att det är nimt att ha Köpenhamn så nära, det är lätt att åka över och träffa kompisar och familj, säger han.Then of course it’s convenient that Copenhagen is so close, it’s easy to cross over and meet friends and family, he says.

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

#### Derived terms

* nim i fingrarna

### References

* ”nim” in Lundbladh, Carl-Erik (2014) Skånska dialektord, 2nd edition, Uppsala: Institutet för språk och folkminnen
* nim in Elias Wessén, Våra ord : deras uttal och ursprung (1979)
* ”næma” in de Vries, Jan (2000) Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 2nd revised edition, Leiden: Brill, page 413
* ”nämber” in Söderwall, K.F. (1884-1918) Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket‎, volume I-III

### Anagrams

* min

## Volapük
### Etymology

From English animal (which ultimately derives from Latin animal).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [nim]

### Noun

nim (nominative plural nims)
* animal (Animalia)
    Hyponyms: hinim, jinim, nimil, nimül

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

#### Derived terms

* balyelanim
* dämabanim
* fekunanim
* folyelanim
* fösilanim
* genanim
* hinim
* kilyelanim
* krustanim (krustaf)
* lodotanim
* lodotanimaluveg
* lodotanimidugan
* lulyelanim
* lunim
* melanim
* melanimem
* melanimik
* minimil
* minimilem
* mälyelanim
* nefekunanim
* nimablud
* nimafom
* nimafomik
* nimafösil
* nimafösilil
* nimakap
* nimakapik
* nimalad
* nimalineg
* nimalueg
* nimalufut
* nimasüm
* nimasümik
* nimav
* nimavik
* nimem
* nimik
* nimil
* nimilem
* nimilik
* niminulüdabog
* niminulüdamabetad
* niminulüdamamiliak
* niminulüdamapisäl
* niminulüdamaplan
* niminulüdaviän
* niminulüdot
* nimälamen
* nimälamenik
* nimül
* nimülam
* nimülamaliev
* nimülamüp
* nimülem
* nimülik
* nimülön
* probodanim (probodaf)
* probodanimem
* probodanimik
* pronimbetad
* pronimmeil
* pronimmiliak
* pronimpisäl
* pronimpisäls
* pronimplan
* pronimplanem
* ravalenim
* ravalenimik
* ravanim
* ravanimül
* skömanimil
* süganim
* süganimav
* süganimavan
* süganimik
* telyelanim
* trofodanim
* virebanim

### See also

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