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).
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.
köken: From a root *hip(p)e- shared with hiven, dialectal hive (“sweet snack”) and dialectal hippi (“peak, tip”). SSA argues for a sound-symbolic origin, while NSES connects both with hipiä (and thus indirectly also hius).
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
Macarcacseppnyi, csipet, darabka, egy csepp/csöpp, egy kevés, hajszálnyi /ˈt͡ʃipɛt/
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
köken: Dissimilation of brúire, from Middle Irish brúar (“crumbs, bits”), from the root of Old Irish bruïd (“to break in pieces”), from Proto-Celtic *bruseti, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to break”).