of no impact; unimportant; inconsequent; insignificant · of no value or interest · Without or with an unclear signification
çekim: çoğul insignifiants
eş: inintéressant, mineur, négligeable, rare
zıt: significatif, important, intéressant, notable, de valeur
köken: Literally, “which has no signification”, from in- + signifier + -ant.
small amount
çekim: çoğul chines
eş: poco
köken: Perhaps of African origin; compare Proto-Bantu *kɪ̀ntʊ̀ (“little thing, small object”).
🔊 Dame un chin de café.
weak, dim, faint
çekim: üstünlük debolissimo
eş: atrofico, atono, fiacco, flaccido, floscio, fragile
zıt: forte
köken: From Latin debilis.
aile: debolezza, debolissimo, debolmente, deboluccio, elettrodebole, indebolire, interazione debole, interazione nucleare debole
small · young (for a person)
zıt: كَبِير
köken: From Proto-Semitic *ṣaɣir- (“to be small, young”). Cognate with Akkadian 𒌉 (ṣeḫrum, “small, young”) and Biblical Hebrew צָעִיר (ṣɔʿir).
🔊 وَٱخۡفِضۡ لَهُمَا جَنَاحَ ٱلذُّلِّ مِنَ ٱلرَّحۡمَةِ وَقُل رَّبِّ ٱرۡحَمۡهُمَا كَمَا رَبَّيَانِي صَغِيرࣰا
few, little, scanty
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾndk' /andak/, “little, few”), the diminutive form of [script needed] (ʾnd /and/, “so much, many”). By surface analysis, اند (and, “an unknown number”) + ـک (-ak, diminutive suffix).
aile: اندکی
few, little
köken: From Proto-Turkic *āŕ.
aile: az qala, az-az, az-çox, az-maz, az-azacıq, azacıq, azalan, azalma, azaldılma, azaldılmaq
few, little
köken: From Proto-Turkic *āŕ (“few, little”). Cognate with Turkish az, Azerbaijani az, etc.
small, little · young · minor, of little importance
çekim: karşılaştırma kichikroq · üstünlük eng kichik
köken: Derived from Chagatai کچیک (kiçik), from Karakhanid [script needed] (kiçüg), from Proto-Turkic *kičük, *kičüg (“small, little”).
a bit, slightly
köken: From Proto-Turkic *āŕ. Cognate to Bashkir әҙ (əź), etc.
small, little · young · junior
çekim: karşılaştırma kiçiräk · üstünlük iň kiçi
köken: Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kičüg.
a little
köken: From Proto-Turkic *āŕ (“few, little”). Cognate with Azerbaijani az, etc.
few, small in number
zıt: күп
köken: From Proto-Turkic *āŕ (“few”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰕 (az, “few”); Kazakh аз (az), Kyrgyz аз (az), Uzbek oz, Turkish az (“few, small in number”).
a bit, a little bit, somewhat
çekim: çoğul beetjes
köken: From beet + -je. Cognate with German bisschen and English bit.
mouthful (amount that fits in a mouth) · delicacy (choice dish suggesting rarity and refinement) · portion, bit
çekim: çoğul bocados
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bocado, from boca (“mouth”) + -ado (“-ed”).
aile: bocadão, bocadinho, bom bocado, passar um mau bocado
🔊 Tirei um bocado de bolo.
🔊 Esperei apenas bocado de tempo.
🔊 Um bocado de pessoas viu aquilo.
accusative masculine singular of λίγος (lígos) · nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of λίγος (lígos)
eş: ολίγον
aile: κάθε λίγο και λιγάκι, λιγάκι, λίγο λίγο, λιγουλάκι
slightly, a little, a bit, somewhat (of a span of time, or an amount or degree) · used to preface and soften a negative expression · an indirect expression of refusal: well, umm
köken: From ちっと (chitto), itself a geminated emphatic form of ちと (chito), originally composed of ち (chi, “small”, not used in isolation; cognate with the chi in 小さい chīsai) + と (to, adverbial particle). First attested in 1477.
aile: ちょいと, ちょい
🔊 ちょっと待ってね。
🔊 ちょっといい？
🔊 ちょっと無理ですが……
some; a few; a little
🔊 她讀完這本書後發表了一些感想。
🔊 她读完这本书后发表了一些感想。
🔊 上年我探望過一些非洲的貧窮家庭。
a small piece, fragment
köken: Of native Korean origin.
🔊 지렁이가 있으니께 딱딱 잘러서 이렇게 세 도막을 내 놨대요.
a piece (forming a part of some whole) · a bit · a bit (certain (not insignificant) distance)
çekim: çoğul bitar · tamlayan bits
köken: From Old Norse biti.
aile: bitsocker, i bitar, pusselbit, sockerbit
🔊 en pusselbit
🔊 en tårtbit / en bit tårta [note that there is no preposition]
🔊 Jag åt tre bitar McNuggets
fine (small) · fine (consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces) · petite (fairly short and of slim build)
çekim: karşılaştırma drobniejszy · üstünlük najdrobniejszy
eş: delikatny, asteniczny, wątły, mizerny, niewielki
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰreb-der. Proto-Slavic *drobiti Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Balto-Slavic *-inas Proto-Slavic *-ьnъ Proto-Slavic *drobьnъ Old Polish drobny Polish drobny Inherited from Old Polish drobny. By surface analysis, drób + -ny.
aile: drobniuchny, drobniusi, drobniusieńki, drobniuśki, drobniuteńki, drobniutki, w drobny mak, drobna szlachcianka, drobna szlachta, drobne
🔊 drobny druk
light, lightweight · easy, facile, slight
çekim: karşılaştırma ле́гший · üstünlük найле́гший
zıt: важки́й
köken: From Proto-Slavic *lьgъkъ, with -ий (-yj).
aile: легкість
a little (a small amount of) · short (having little duration)
köken: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अल्प (alpa).
sparse, loose (far apart in space) · thin (of hair) · infrequent, sparse (far apart in time)
çekim: karşılaştırma harvempi · üstünlük harvin
zıt: taaja, tiheä, tiivis, tiuha, tuuhea
köken: From Proto-Finnic *harva (compare Estonian harv, Ingrian harva), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *šorwa (compare Erzya чуро (čuro, “rare, sparse”) and Southern Khanty турәп (turəp, “sparse”)).
aile: harva se päivä, harvaan, harvahko, harvakseen, harvakseltaan, harvassa, harvasti, harventaa, harveta, harvinainen
🔊 Vain harvat ja valitut kutsutaan näihin juhliin.
🔊 Harvoja poikkeuksia lukuun ottamatta.
🔊 Olen kertonut tästä vain harvoille.
petty, tiny, minute
çekim: karşılaştırma drobnější · üstünlük nejdrobnější
köken: Inherited from Old Czech drobný, from Proto-Slavic *drobьnъ. By surface analysis, drobit + -ný.
aile: podrobný, drobnohled, drobnokresba, drobnost
piece, bit, fragment, morsel · (type) of food
çekim: çoğul bucăți · tamlayan bucăți
eş: frântură
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *buccata, from Latin bucca. Compare French bouchée, Italian boccata, Portuguese and Spanish bocado. Doublet of bușeu.
aile: bucătar, bucăți, bucățică
trifling, small, little
çekim: karşılaştırma csekélyebb · üstünlük legcsekélyebb
köken: From the same stem as the verb csökken (“to decrease”) + -ély. Compare sekély.
aile: csekélyell, csekélyke, csekélység
little, few (not much)
aile: כִּמְעַט, מִקְדָּשׁ מְעַט, עוֹד מְעַט, מעט מדי, מאוחר מדי, מְעַט מִדַּי, מְאֻחָר מִדַּי