siksik

Borrowed from Inuktitut ᓯᒃᓯᒃ (siksik).

siksik (plural siksiks)

1. Synonym of Arctic ground squirrel.
   • 1972, Fred Bruemmer, Encounters with Arctic Animals, New York: American Heritage Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OCLC:

     Siksiks are irascible, curious little fellows with vituperative, strident voices that can be heard a mile away.

   • 1990, Erwin A. Bauer, Erwin Bauer's Bear in Their World, Outdoor Life Books, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     One autumn, I watched two different grizzlies of Denali National Park hunt for Arctic ground squirrels, or siksiks. At the northern latitudes beyond the timberline, where they live, siksiks have only a very brief summer in which to eat, raise a family, enough body fat […]

   • 2003, Cherie Winner, Life in the Tundra, Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., →ISBN, →OCLC:

     Another resident of the riparian zone is the arctic ground squirrel, also known as the siksik. These rodents eat plant seeds, stems, flowers, and roots. Like arctic foxes, siksiks forage in many areas of the tundra, but make their homes in places where the active layer is deep.

From Inuktitut ᓯᒃᓯᒃ (siksik).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiksik/, [ˈs̠iks̠ik]
• Rhymes: -iksik
• Syllabification^(key): sik‧sik
• Hyphenation^(key): sik‧sik

siksik

1. Arctic ground squirrel (Urocitellus parryii)

siksik

1. scale (of a fish)

siksik

1. (stative) to be small

• aksiksik
• sihksik

From Proto-Austronesian *səksək (“to stuff, to cram in, to be crowded”). Compare Ilocano seksek, Kapampangan saksak, Central Bikol saksak, Cebuano suksok, Malay sesak. Doublet of saksak.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /sikˈsik/ [sɪkˈsɪk̚]
• Rhymes: -ik
• Syllabification: sik‧sik

siksík (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜃ᜔ᜐᜒᜃ᜔)

1. crowded; crammed; packed or stuffed tightly

   Synonym: punong-puno

siksík (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜃ᜔ᜐᜒᜃ᜔)

1. forcing of oneself into a crowd, small opening, etc.

   Synonyms: gitgit, paggitgit

2. stuffing of a container tightly
3. condition of being crammed, thickly crowded, packed or stuffed tightly

• “siksik”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

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