siker

• sicker
• siccer
• siccar

From Middle English siker (“secure, safe, stable, certain; gewiss, securely, safely, certainly”), from Old English sicer, sicor (“secure from, free from guilt and the punishment, safe, free from danger or harm, sure, certain, free from doubt, trustworthy”), from Proto-Germanic *sikuraz (“free, secure”), from Latin sēcūrus (“secure”, literally “without care”). See secure. Cognate with Scots siker, seker (“safe, secure”), North Frisian sijcker (“sure, secure”), Dutch zeker (“certain, safe, secure”), German sicher (“sure, secure, confirmed”), Swedish säker (“secure, safe, sure”), Norwegian sikker (“secure”).

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siker

1. Alternative spelling of sicker: certain
2. 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."

• sikerly
• sikerness

siker

1. Alternative spelling of sicker: certainly
2. Alternative spelling of sicker: securely

• Keirs, Kiers, Kiser, Rikes, Riske, keirs, keris, kiers, skier

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.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃikɛr]

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• Hyphenation: si‧ker

siker (plural sikerek)

1. success

• sikeredik
• sikertelen
• sikerű
• sikerül

(Compound words):

• kasszasiker
• sikerfilm
• sikerkönyv
• sikerlista
• sikerorientált
• sikerszakma
• sikersztori
• sikertörténet

From Arabic سَكَرَ‎ (sakara)

siker (imperfect jisker)

1. to be drunk

• syker, sykir, sikyr, sykyr, sicer, secir, sikir, seker, sekir, sekire, sicker, sekor, cykyr, ziker, sekyr, sicur

From Old English sicor, from Proto-Germanic *sikuraz, from Latin sēcūrus. Doublet of sure.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsikər/

siker (plural and weak singular sikere, comparative sikerer, superlative sikerest)

1. safe, (having safety or security; not harmful or dangerous); the following special senses are especially prevalent:
   1. sinless, not spiritually dangerous
   2. fortified, secure, guarded
2. firm, tough, unbreakable, sound
3. reliable, long-lasting, of good quality
4. unerring, continuously and exceptionlessly excellent
5. actual, real, true not feigned or ephemeral
6. Easily predictable, inevitable, certain
7. Full of certainty, sure; having great trust in one's actions
8. reliable, dependable, trustworthy, useful
9. In good health or condition; healed

• English: sicker (obsolete, dialectal)
• Scots: siker, seker, siccar

• “siker (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-22.

siker (comparative sikerer)

1. safely, carefully
2. certainly, surely, inevitably
3. assuredly, with sureness
4. powerfully

• English: sicker (obsolete, dialectal)
• Scots: siker, seker, siccar

• “siker (adv.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-22.

siker

1. third-person negative singular simple present indicative of sikmemek
2. third-person singular present simple indicative positive degree of sikmek

• sikmez

• siker sikmez