cimar

See also: ćímar

English

Noun

cimar (plural cimars)

1. Alternative form of simar.

References

• “cimar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Rimac, Marci, macir, Ramic, Mirac, Carmi

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁éyeti

Ancient Greek κῠ́ω (kŭ́ō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Hellenic *-mə

Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)

Ancient Greek κῦμᾰ (kûmă)bor.

Latin cȳma

Old Spanish cima

Spanish cima

Spanish -ar

Spanish cimar

From cima + -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θiˈmaɾ/ [θiˈmaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /siˈmaɾ/ [siˈmaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ci‧mar

Verb

cimar (first-person singular present cimo, first-person singular preterite cimé, past participle cimado)

1. to crop; to cut shorter (removing the top)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of cimar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			cimar
gerund			cimando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		cimado		cimada
		plural		cimados		cimadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	cimo	cimastú cimásvos	cima	cimamos	cimáis	ciman
	imperfect	cimaba	cimabas	cimaba	cimábamos	cimabais	cimaban
	preterite	cimé	cimaste	cimó	cimamos	cimasteis	cimaron
	future	cimaré	cimarás	cimará	cimaremos	cimaréis	cimarán
	conditional	cimaría	cimarías	cimaría	cimaríamos	cimaríais	cimarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	cime	cimestú cimésvos2	cime	cimemos	ciméis	cimen
	imperfect (ra)	cimara	cimaras	cimara	cimáramos	cimarais	cimaran
	imperfect (se)	cimase	cimases	cimase	cimásemos	cimaseis	cimasen
	future1	cimare	cimares	cimare	cimáremos	cimareis	cimaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		cimatú cimávos	cime	cimemos	cimad	cimen
	negative		no cimes	no cime	no cimemos	no ciméis	no cimen

¹Rare; now chiefly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tuteo-form for the present subjunctive.

Related terms

• encima

Further reading

• “cimar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025