köken: From Middle High German gir, from Old High German giri. The surname is from the noun, though it is also a Low German form of Geyer and in some personal name shortenings related to the ancient *gaiʀ (“spear”) as in Gerhardt.
greedy for money or property, avaricious, covetous · insatiable for food
eş: ҡомһоҙ
köken: From Middle Mongol *qomaqai (“greedy, hungry”), see Mongolian хомхой (xomxoj, “greedy”). Cognate with Kazakh қомағай (qomağai, “greedy”); perhaps also related to South Altay коомой (koomoy, “bad”), Khakas хомай (xomay, “bad”).
greedy (having greed; consumed by selfish desires) · eager (to have something)
çekim: karşılaştırma girigare · üstünlük girigast
köken: From Old Swedish girugher, gerogher (compare Norwegian girug), to an earlier Old East Norse *girugr ← *girugʀ, potentially to a Proto-Norse *ᚷᛁᚱᚢᚷᚨᛉ (*girugaʀ); in root akin to *girį̄ + *-gaz; via pattern from Old Danish girig, Middle Low German gerich, Old High German girig (compare German gierig). First recorded in the 13th century Westrogothic law (Westgöta-Lagen). Related to Old Swedish giri…
köken: Inherited from Prakrit *लालिच्च (lālicca), from Sanskrit लालित्य (lālitya, “lust”), a vṛddhi derivative of ललित (lalita, “sported, desired”), from the root लल् (lal, “to sport, play”). Related to लड़ना (laṛnā, “to fight”).
greedy, avaricious, grasping (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
çekim: karşılaştırma kapzsibb · üstünlük legkapzsibb
köken: First attested in 1506. From kap (“to seize, grasp”) + -si (adjective-forming suffix). Its original meaning was zsákmány (“booty, pillage, plunder”). The consonant "s" in the suffix became voiced over time.
çekim: karşılaştırma grådigere · üstünlük grådigst
köken: From Old Norse gráðugr, from Proto-Germanic *grēdagaz, cognate with English greedy, Dutch graag (“gladly”). Derived from the noun *grēduz (“desire”).