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, 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

Pronunciation
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Noun

simsim (n class, plural simsim)

  1. sesame
    Synonym: ufuta
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