siya

black

Where it comes from

Persian siyāh, Turkish siyah, Urdu/Hindi siyāh, Bengali shyam

Group

Colours

First taught

Lesson 20

In the published corpus

9 of the 1321 glossed sentence pairs use it. Only the sentences that carry an English translation are in the corpus, and it is the measure you can check for yourself.

Looked up in English as

black

More than one

siya-siya — the noun said twice, joined by a hyphen. Nothing is added and nothing inside the word changes, so nothing can become irregular. The rule.

Sentences that use it.

Every one written by hand and checked against the rules. Shortest first.

• Rambut mi siya.My hair is black.lessons/lesson-20-colours-and-health
• Badal siya in asman.Black clouds in the sky.lessons/lesson-20-colours-and-health
• Badal siya — yamur lai!Black clouds — rain is coming!lessons/lesson-20-colours-and-health
• Rambut ta cang aur siya.Her hair is long and black.lessons/lesson-20-colours-and-health
• Petra ini siya aur kuat.This stone is black and strong.lessons/lesson-21-things-and-ideas
• Kanis mi siya aur keci.My dog is black and small.lessons/lesson-22-doing-and-feeling
• Din finis. Aksam lai. Asman siya.The day finishes. Evening comes. The sky is black.texts/story-2-safari-por-pahar
• Cehra ta hao. Rambut ta siya.His face is good. His hair is black.texts/text-17-tren-aur-farasi
• Tahun-tahun go. Rambut siya sasa putih.The years go. The black hair is white now.texts/text-21-uan-umur

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The rest of the shelf.

• asfaryellow
• asulblue
• merahred
• putihwhite
• yesilgreen

All 300 roots, or the source table.