meaning
circle, sphere, spiral, round thing e.g. ball, wheel; repeating thing e.g. cycle, orbit, loop
see also
semantic space · lipamanka
sike represents round objects and cycles. sike can be used to refer to the smoothness of an edge. sike can be used to talk about marbles and flat disks such as cookies. sike can talk about wheels or balls or even gyroscopes. Because sike can also represent cycles, it can be used to describe a repeated action. A for loop (in computer coding) is a sike. "toki sike" could be repeating the same thing over and over again. "utala sike" could be a never ending cycle of war, or some online discourse that just won't end. Whether it's physical or not, a sike will always loop around and end where it started.
pu verbatim
- NOUN round or circular thing; ball, circle, cycle, sphere, wheel
- ADJECTIVE of one year
ku translations
circle100 round100 sphere82 ball77 loop71 cycle70 wheel64 disc59 globe55 circuit46 spin36 ring33 surround31 curve25 rolling25 spot25 orbit23 twist21 roll20
usage
core · 100% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
English · circle
coined by jan Sonja
listen
kala Asi
jan Lakuse
sitelen pona
siketwo circles, perhaps to distinguish from ijo. alternatively outline of a thick empty circle
sitelen sitelen
sitelen jelo
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sitelen Emosi
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ucsur
U+F195C