sintir

English

A sintir being played by Nuru Kane

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سِنْتِير (sintīr).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sin‧tir

Noun

sintir (plural sintirs)

1. (music) A three-stringed, skin-covered bass plucked lute used by the Gnawa people of Morocco.

   Synonym: guembri

   Hypernym: lute

   Coordinate terms: lotar, oud

   • 2007 January 12, The New York Times, “Rock/Pop Listings”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Playing the sintir (a long-necked, resonant lute), Mr. Hakmoun leads spellbinding trance ceremonies, and with castanets around his ankles, performs acrobatic dances.

Further reading

• sintir on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Trinis

Ladino

Alternative forms

• sentir

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish sentir (“to feel”), from Latin sentīre.

Verb

sintir (Hebrew spelling סינטיר)

1. (transitive) to feel; to sense
   • 2009, ירון בן־נאה, תורכיה‎^[2], משרד החינוך, המזכירות הפדגוגית, המרכז לשילוב מורשת יהדות המזרח, page 190:

     “Sera komo un arvol plantado serka de la agua ke sus raizes estan asta el rio, raizes munças, no syente kalor, sus ojas kedan syempre freskas, no sufre en el anyo de sekura, i nunka keda de dar su fruto”.

     ‘It shall be like a tree planted near water [in] that its roots, many roots, stretch to the river; it feels no heat, its always keeps it leaves fresh, not suffering in the year of drought, and it never ceases to give fruit.’

2. (transitive, intransitive) to hear

   Synonym: oír

   Kuando era chika en kaza sintia maz mucho.

   When I was a little girl, I used to hear [Ladino] much more at home.

3. (reflexive) to feel (think, believe, or have an impression concerning)
   • 2020 January 29, Metin Delevi, “El 27 de Enero es el dia de memoria de las viktimas del Nazismo, del Olokosto…”, in Şalom‎^[3]:

     Ija de imigrantes djudios rusos ke aviyan sufriyido del aborresimyento i del antisemitizmo, se sintyo ke el aktivizmo sovre este sujeto era su dever.

     The daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants who had suffered from hatred and from antisemitism, she felt that activism on this subject was her duty.

Conjugation

conjugation of sintir

infinitive			sintir
gerund			sintiendo, sintyendo
participle			sintido
number		singular			plural
person		first person	second person	third person	first person	second person	third person
indicative		yo	tu	el eya	mozotros mozotras	vozotros vozotras	eyos eyas
	simple present	syento, siento	syentes, sientes	syente, siente	sentimos	sentísh	syenten, sienten
	imperfect	sintiya	sintiyas	sintiya	sintiyamos	sintiyash	sintiyan
	preterite	sintí	sintites	sintyó, sintió	sintimos	sintitesh	sintyeron, sintieron
	future	sintiré	sintirás	sintirá	sintiremos	sintirásh	sintirán
	conditional	sintiriya	sintiriyas	sintiriya	sintiriyamos	sintiriyash	sintiriyan
subjunctive		yo	tu	el eya	mozotros mozotras	vozotros vozotras	eyos eyas
	present	syenta, sienta	syentas, sientas	syenta, sienta	sintamos, syentamos	sintásh, syentásh	syentan, sientan
	past	sintyera, sintiera	sintyeras, sintieras	sintyera, sintiera	sintyéramos, sintiéramos	sintyerash, sintierash	sintyeran, sintieran
imperative		—		—	—		—
	affirmative	(syenta, sienta)	syente, siente	(syenta, sienta)	(sintamos, syentamos)	sinti, sintid	(syentan, sientan)
	negativo	(no syenta, sienta)	no syentas, sientas	(no syenta, sienta)	(no sintamos, syentamos)	no sintásh, syentásh	(no syentan, sientan)