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sev

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See also: Sev, SEV, sêv, šev, and şev

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Gujarati સેવ (sev).

Noun

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sev (uncountable)

  1. An Indian snack food consisting of small pieces of crunchy noodles made from chickpea flour paste.

Etymology 2

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Clipping of seven to be one syllable.

Numeral

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sev

  1. (music) the seventh beat or pulse of a measure, spoken.
    One-two-three-four-five-six-sev-one.

Anagrams

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Latvian

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Pronoun

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sev

  1. to -self; dative singular of sevi

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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sev n (definite singular sevet, indefinite plural sev, definite plural seva or sevene)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by siv

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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sev n (definite singular sevet, indefinite plural sev, definite plural seva or sevi)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of siv

Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From sévati.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sȇv m (Cyrillic spelling се̑в, diminutive sévak)

  1. flash of lightning or light

Declension

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References

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  • sev”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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From English shave.

Noun

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sev

  1. shave

Verb

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sev

  1. to shave

Turkish

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Verb

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sev

  1. second-person singular imperative of sevmek

White Hmong

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Etymology

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not mentioned by Ratliff at all. Doesn't seem to bear resemblance to any other words for "apron" in the linguistic area; the closest thing might be Chinese (, “silk; thread”) (is siv (belt, sash) connected to these terms?)

The "wife" sense is almost certainly a metonymic semantic extension of the "apron" meaning.”

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sev (classifier: daim)

  1. an apron

References

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  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 291.