short, quick, brief · short · short, concise, succinct (of words or writing)
çekim: karşılaştırma kürzer · üstünlük am kürzesten
eş: prägnant, kurzum
zıt: lang, weit
köken: From Middle High German kurz, from Old High German kurz, from Proto-West Germanic *kurt, from Latin curtus. Compare also native Old High German *skurz, scurz and Middle High German schurz. Cognate with Dutch and Low German kort, English curt, Swedish kort.
Wir haben eine kurze Pause gemacht.
Das Kabel ist zu kurz, es reicht nicht bis zur Steckdose.
köken: From Old French brief, from Latin brevis. A folk etymology derives it as an acronym of Bon, Revenons-En aux Faits, but this is completely inaccurate.
aile: dans les plus brefs délais, en bref
Il lui envoya un bref message de quelques lignes seulement.
short (having a small distance from one end to another) · short (having little duration) · dim-witted, slow
çekim: çoğul cortos
eş: lerdo, tardo
zıt: largo
köken: Inherited from Latin curtus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. Cognate with English curt and short. The coffee was named by don José Prado Crespo, the founder of Café Central in Malaga. Tired of the difficulty of understanding the orders of customers, he created a plaque on the tiled wall listing 10 types of coffee by their coffee and milk content.
aile: a corto plazo, alicorto, cortedad, cortísimo, cortito, corto de luces, corto siglo veinte, cortocircuito, cortometraje, de corto
köken: Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kïs- (“short, narrrow, to squize”). Cognate with Karakhanid قِسْغا (“qïsɣā”), Turkish kısa, Turkmen gysga, Salar qısga, Crimean Tatar qısqa, etc.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *kɨsga (“short”), from *kɨs- (“to press, squeeze”). Cognate with Bashkir ҡыҫҡа (qıśqa), Uzbek qisqa, Crimean Tatar qısqa, Turkmen gysga, Turkish kısa, Khakas хысха (xısxa), etc.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *kïsga (“short”), from *kïs- (“to press, squeeze”). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (qïsγa), Old Uyghur [script needed] (qïsqa, “short”); Uzbek qisqa (“short”), Crimean Tatar qısqa (“short”), Turkmen gysga (“short”), Turkish kısa (“short”), Khakas хысха (xısxa, “short”), etc.
köken: Probably a borrowing from Latin brevis (“short”) (compare Spanish breve, where *brieve would be expected if the term were inherited), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus.
köken: * Sense pole: from Ancient Greek κοντός (“pole”) (noun). * Sense short: from the Hellenistic Koine Greek κοντός (kontós, “short”) (adjective) from the ancient sense Ancient Greek κοντός (“pole”) which referred to shorter kinds of poles, hence the sense shortness.
short, brief (in time) · short (in space, from one point to another) · short, brief (in length, such as a text or speech)
zıt: 長い
köken: ⟨mi₁zikasi⟩ → /mizikasi/ → /mid͡ʑikaɕi/ → /mid͡ʑikaki/ → /mid͡ʑikai/ From Old Japanese. First attested in c. 759 CE, in the Man'yōshū. Appears to be derived as a compound, but the constituent parts remain obscure. The stem みじか (mijika) is also found in compounds, and in the now-obsolete adjective forms 短(みじか)やか (mijikayaka) and 短(みじか)らか (mijikaraka), indicating that the か (ka) is not the…
aile: 気が短い, 手短
Mostly superseded in modern usage by 低い (hikui, “short (in height)”).
köken: From Middle Low German kort, from Old Saxon *kurt, from Proto-West Germanic *kurt, an early borrowing from Latin curtus. Cognate with German kurz, Dutch kort, Danish kort and Norwegian Bokmål kort.
aile: kortbyxor, korthet
Thomas! Thomas! [...]viskade nu Lotten, ty det var den korte som segrat, och hon hade igenkänt honom.
Kortaste avståndet mellan två punkter är den krokiga linjen, ju krokigare, desto kortare.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *kártas Proto-Slavic *kõrtъ Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Slavic *-kъ Proto-Slavic *-ъkъ Proto-Slavic *-ъkъ Proto-Slavic *kortъ̀kъ Old Polish krótki Polish krótki Inherited from Old Polish krótki.
quickly, rapidly, promptly, fast · unexpectedly, out of the blue, abruptly, suddenly
köken: From Proto-Finnic *äkkidä, the partitive singular of *äkki. Cognates include Estonian äkki, Ingrian äkkii, Karelian äkkie, Veps äkkid and Votic äčči.
aile: yhtäkkiä
Nyt äkkiä tänne!
Tämä tuli kyllä vähän äkkiä, mutta totta kai minä suostun.
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *excurtus, from Latin curtus (“short”); the initial s- may also have been added later in Romanian, or appeared as a result of the influence of scurta, from excurtare. Compare also Aromanian shcurtu. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.