سیم

Borrowed from Persian سیم (sim).

سیم • (sim)

1. silver, a lustrous, white, metallic element

   Synonyms: فضه (fudda), كومش (gümüş)

2. money and coins made of silver

   Synonym: درم (direm)

3. silverlike thread, lace or metalware, wire

• Turkish: sim
• → Armenian: սիմ (sim)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sim5”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4243
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سیم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 710
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Argentum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 82
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سیم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1736
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sim1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سیم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1103

From Middle Persian [script needed] ((ʾ)sym /⁠(a)sēm⁠/, “silver”), from Old Persian 𐎿𐎡𐎹𐎶𐎶 (s-i-y-m-m /⁠siyamam⁠/), from Ancient Greek ἄσημον (ásēmon, “silverware”), neuter form of ἄσημος (ásēmos, “pure, unmarked”). Akin to Parthian hsym (hasēm, “silver”), Bactrian σιμινο (simino, “made of silver, silverware”).

Readings
Classical reading?	sīm
Dari reading?	sīm
Iranian reading?	sim
Tajik reading?	sim

سیم • (sim) (plural سیم‌ها (sim-hâ))

1. wire

   سیم تلفن ― sim-e telefon ― telephone wire

   سیم خاردار ― sim-e xârdâr ― barbed wire

2. string; cord

   سیم ویولن ― sim-e viyolon ― violin string

3. (original sense, now poetic) silver

   Synonym: نقره (noqre)

   • c. 1850, Mirzā Ḥabib-Allāh Širāzi Qāʾāni, وله ایضاً فی مدحه:

     نرگسک آن طشت سیم باز به سر برنهاد
     بر سر سیمینه طشت طاسک زر برنهاد

     nargesak ân tašt-e sim bâz be sar barnehâd
     bar sar-e simine tasht tâsak-e zar barnehâd

     The little narcissus has again put that silver basin on its head
     Upon the silvery head, the basin has put a little golden bowl

4. (now poetic) wealth; money

• → Gujarati: સીમ (sīm)

• Philip Huyse (2012 February 23) “Greek Loanwords in Middle Iranian Languages”, in Encyclopaedia Iranica‎^[5]

Short for ماهی سیم (mâhi-ye sim), literally “silver fish”, but its old form was شیم (šim).

سیم • (sim) (plural سیم‌ها (sim-hâ))

1. bream

From سی (si, “thirty”) + ـم (-om, “-th, -eth (ordinal number suffix))”).

Readings
Classical reading?	siyum
Dari reading?	siyum
Iranian reading?	siyom
Tajik reading?	siyum

سیم • (siyom)

1. thirtieth

Inherited from Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠seyom⁠/).

Readings
Classical reading?	siyum
Dari reading?	siyum
Iranian reading?	seyom
Tajik reading?	siyum

سیم • (seyom)

1. Archaic form of سوم (sevvom, “third”)