köken: Learned borrowing from Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing, weeping”).
köken: Borrowed from Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn) from Aramaic מסכנא (meskēnā), derived from Akkadian 𒈦𒆕𒂗 (muškēnum, “villein, indigent; class of people dependent or reliant on others, unable to provide supplies on their own; commoner”). The Akkadian term is first recorded in early dynastic Sumer. Compare French mesquin, Portuguese mesquinho, Sicilian mischinu, Spanish mezquino.
köken: Borrowed from Ukrainian нікче́мний (nikčémnyj) in late 19th or early 20th century, from Old Ruthenian никче́мный (nikčémnyj), possibly from Old Polish nikczemny. By surface analysis, ни (ni) + к (k) + чему́ (čemú) + -ный (-nyj).
pathetic (arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion) · pathetic (arousing scornful pity or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy)
köken: From Latin patheticus (“pathetic”), from Ancient Greek παθητικός (pathētikós, “subject to feeling, capable of feeling, impassioned”), from παθητός (pathētós, “one who has suffered, subject to suffering”), from παθείν (patheín, “to suffer”). Unrelated to pateta.
unskilled, bad at, poor at, weak at, incompetent · superficial, halfhearted, half-assed, careless · smaller or lesser in degree
çekim: geçmiş 下手した
eş: 着手
köken: Probably a semantic shift from 端 (heta, “edge of something”), referring metaphorically to the edge of one's abilities or knowledge. The kanji spelling appears to be an instance of jukujikun (熟(じゅく)字(じ)訓(くん)).
pitiable, miserable, deplorable, lamentable, wretched, sad, pitiful, pathetic
çekim: karşılaştırma miserābilior
köken: Etymology tree Latin miserārī, miseror Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin miserābilis From miserārī, miseror + -bilis.