SIM card

English Subscriber Identity Module thumb|A SIM card Etymology en :af SIM<id:Subscriber Identity Module> card<id:playing card> From en SIM i.e. Subscriber Identity Module card. Pronunciation en /ˈsɪm ˌkɑː(ɹ)d/ en En-us-SIM card.oga GA Noun A small, removable card smaller than a credit card which stores mobile phone data such as contact names and numbers, SMSs and security information. en Eoin McSweeney As Covid-19 cases rise in Nigeria, a government policy is creating crowds and chaos w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/10/africa/nigeria-national-identification-numbers-covid-intl/index.html 2021-02-10 Despite the ongoing health crisis, the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) has ordered phone operators in the country to block SIM cards not linked to a national identity number (NIN), used to bundle together biometric records such as fingerprints and headshots. Even when people manage to get a NIN, they must then integrate it with their SIM card by texting their service provider a code, a process that users say is sometimes glitchy. https://web.archive.org/web/20260927073331/https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/10/africa/nigeria-national-identification-numbers-covid-intl/index.html 27 September 2026 Related terms en Subscriber Identity Module en dual SIM/dual-SIM en triple SIM/triple-SIM Translations small, removable card which stores mobile phone data Arabic: ar بِطَاقَة SIM f, ar شَرِيحَة f Armenian: hy SIM քարտ Basque: eu SIM txartel Bulgarian: bg SIM карта Catalan: ca SIM Chinese: Cantonese: yue SIM卡 sim1 kaat1, yue 電話卡 din6 waa6-2 kaat3 Mandarin: cmn SIM卡 SIM kǎ, cmn 手機卡 shǒujīkǎ, cmn 电话卡 Czech: cs SIM karta Dutch: nl simkaart Esperanto: eo SIM-karto Estonian: et SIM-kaart Finnish: fi SIM-kortti French: fr carte SIM f Georgian: ka SIM-ბარათი, ka SIM ბარათი, ka სიმ-ბარათი, ka სიმ ბარათი German: de SIM-Karte f Greek: el κάρτα SIM f Hebrew: he כרטיס סים m kartís sim, he כרטיס SIM kartís SIM Hindi: hi सिम कार्ड Hungarian: hu SIM-kártya Icelandic: is SIM-kort n, is símkort n Ido: io Indonesian: id kartu SIM Irish: ga cárta SIM m Italian: it carta SIM f, it SIM card f Japanese: ja SIMカード shimu kādo Kannada: kn Khmer: km ស៊ីមកាត Korean: ko 유심 Latvian: lv SIM karte Lithuanian: lt SIM kortelė Macedonian: mk Maltese: mt karta SIM f Mongolian: mn SIM карт Persian: fa سیمکارت Polish: pl karta SIM Portuguese: pt cartão SIM, pt chip Punjabi: pa ਸਿਮ ਕਾਰਡ m Russian: ru SIM-ка́рта f, ru си́мка f colloquial Scottish Gaelic: gd cairt SIM f Serbo-Croatian: sh Spanish: es tarjeta SIM f, es chip telefónico m, es chip celular m, es chip móvil m Swahili: sw kadi ya SIM, sw kadiwia Swedish: sv sim-kort n Tagalog: tl Tajik: tg симкорт Tamil: ta Telugu: te Thai: th ซิมการ์ด sim-gáat Tibetan: bo Turkish: tr Simkart Ukrainian: uk SIM-карта Urdu: ur سم کارڈ sim kārḍ Vietnamese: vi thẻ SIM Welsh: cy cerdyn SIM m Zulu: zu Anagrams en acdimrs McDaris en Mobile phones Technology Telecommunications