çekim: karşılaştırma dünner · üstünlük am dünnsten
eş: mager, schmal, spärlich, dürftig, schwach
zıt: dick, stark, kräftig
köken: From Middle High German dünne, from Old High German dunni, from Proto-West Germanic *þunnī. Middle High German -u-, -ü- before nasal geminates regularly become -o-, -ö- in modern German, but for some reason the form dönn(e), though attested, remained very rare.
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *escarpsus, from Late Latin excarpsus (“rare”), from *excarpere (“pluck out”), from classical Latin excerpere. Related to English scarce.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *sedrek (“rare”). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (sedräk, “rare”); Tatar сирәк (siräk), Kazakh сирек (sirek), Kyrgyz сейрек (seyrek), Southern Altai сайак (sayak), Uzbek siyrak, Turkish seyrek, Azerbaijani seyrək, Yakut сэдэх (sedeq), Turkmen seýrek (“rare”), etc.
köken: From classical -na adjective 珍(めずら) (mezura) + しい (-shii, adjective-forming suffix). Ultimately from Old Japanese verb 愛づ (medu, medzu), modern Japanese 愛でる (mederu, “to love; to admire, to appreciate”). The meaning originally referred to something that was admirable or favorable, something that had value, as an extension of the underlying verb. This meaning is used in the Man'yōshū, dating to…
scarce, not much of something · somewhat less than
çekim: karşılaştırma knappare · üstünlük knappast
köken: From Middle Low German knap, whence also German knapp, Danish knap. Further cognate with Dutch knap. Compare also Danish næppe (“hardly at all”).
poor (lacking or having very little of the necessary means of subsistence) · poor (having poor inhabitants, lacking the necessary means for their subsistence) · poor, insufficient, scarce (lacking important components in its preparation; not available in sufficient quantity)
çekim: karşılaştırma trūcīgāks · üstünlük vistrūcīgākais
eş: nabags, nabadzīgs, mazturīgs, nemantīgs
zıt: bagāts, mantīgs, turīgs
köken: From trūk(t) (“to lack”) + -īgs, with palatalization of k to c.
From Middle Dutch schaers. From Old Northern French scars, escars ("sparing, niggard, parsimonious, miserly, poor"; > French échars, Medieval Latin scarsus (“diminished, reduced”)), of uncertain origin. One theory is that it derives originally from a Late Latin *scarpsus, *excarpsus, a participle form of *excarpere (“take out”), from Latin ex- + carpere; yet the sense evolution is difficult to…