köken: From the incorrect folk etymology which connected Quentchen with Quantum (“quantum”) and led to the spelling Quäntchen with ⟨ä⟩ instead of ⟨e⟩ in the 1996 spelling reform.
köken: Borrowed from a Maghrebi Arabic form such as Algerian Arabic شوية (šwiyya) and Moroccan Arabic شوية (šwiyya), ultimately from a diminutive of Arabic شَيْء (šayʔ, “thing”).
Moi, déclara Zazie, je veux aller à l'école jusqu'à soixante-cinq ans. − Jusqu'à soixante-cinq ans? répéta Gabriel un chouïa surpris.
drachm, dram, dirham (weight unit equal to ¹⁄₄₀₀ oka, in Greece equal to 3.203 grams) · smidgen, ounce (small amount)
çekim: çoğul δράμια · tamlayan δραμιού
köken: Reborrowing from the mediaeval δράμι (drámi), δράμιον (drámion) from the Arabic دِرْهَم (dirham), from the ancient Persian 𐭦𐭥𐭦𐭭 (drahm), from the ancient Greek δραχμή f (drakhmḗ, “drachma”). Αlso see the Hellenistic diminutive δραχμίον n (drakhmíon).
pinch (a small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip) · smidgen (a very small quantity or amount) · a pinch of