simsim

See also: Simsim

English

Noun

simsim (uncountable)

1. Synonym of sesame
   • 1882-1885, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Alaeddin; Or, The Wonderful Lamp:

     He(Ali Baba) then went to the door and saying, "Open, O Simsim!" he pushed in and beheld the dead lich of Kasim, [...]

   • 2015 August 8, Justine A. Assenga et al., “Epidemiology of Brucella infection in the human, livestock and wildlife interface in the Katavi-Rukwa ecosystem, Tanzania”, in BMC Veterinary Research‎^[1], volume 11, →DOI:

     The residents mainly cultivate food crops (maize, rice, sweet potatoes and beans) and cash crops (tobacco, groundnuts, simsim and sunflower).

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sim‧sim

Noun

simsim

1. common purslane (Portulaca oleracea); an annual succulent in the family Portulacaceae

Swahili

Noun

simsim (n class, plural simsim)

1. sesame

   Synonym: ufuta