ungenerous; stingy; cheap (greedy to keep one’s own for oneself; unwilling to share) · miserly; closefisted (unwilling to spend one’s money; excessively economical) · greedy; avaricious; rapacious
çekim: karşılaştırma geiziger · üstünlük am geizigsten
eş: knauserig, knickerig, sparsam
köken: Alteration (due to German Geiz) of Middle High German gītic, gītich, gītec, from Old High German gītag, equivalent to Geiz + -ig. Doublet of geitig.
köken: From Middle Dutch gireg, from Old Dutch gireg, from Proto-West Germanic *gerag, *girīg, from Proto-Germanic *gerugaz, equivalent to gier (“eager”) + -ig.
köken: The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 欲張る (yokubaru, “to be intensely greedy”). Appears in texts from 1813. Ultimately, likely a shift from older synonym 欲ぼり (yokubori), dating to 1519.
köken: Presumably a derivation from Late Latin gaza (“treasury, wealth, riches”), from Ancient Greek γάζα (gáza, “treasury, treasure”), from Old Median *ganǰam (“treasure”).