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Borrowed from Gujarati સેવ (sev).

sev (uncountable)

  1. An Indian snack food consisting of small pieces of crunchy noodles made from chickpea flour paste.

Clipping of seven to be one syllable.

sev

  1. (music) the seventh beat or pulse of a measure, spoken.
    One-two-three-four-five-six-sev-one.

sev

  1. to -self; dative singular of sevi

sev n (definite singular sevet, indefinite plural sev, definite plural seva or sevene)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by siv

sev n (definite singular sevet, indefinite plural sev, definite plural seva or sevi)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of siv

From sévati.

sȇv m (Cyrillic spelling се̑в, diminutive sévak)

  1. flash of lightning or light
  • “sev”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From English shave.

sev

  1. shave

sev

  1. to shave

sev

  1. second-person singular imperative of sevmek
This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not mentioned by Ratliff at all. Doesn't seem to bear resemblance to any other words for "apron" in the linguistic area; the closest thing might be Chinese 絲／丝 (sī, “silk; thread”) (is siv (“belt, sash”) connected to these terms?)

The "wife" sense is almost certainly a metonymic semantic extension of the "apron" meaning.”

sev (classifier: daim)

  1. an apron
  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 291.