alms (gift to a beggar) · charity, small gift, pittance
çekim: çoğul aalmoezen
köken: From Middle Dutch aelmoesene, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-West Germanic *alemōsinā, from Vulgar Latin *alemosyna, from Latin eleēmosyna, from Ancient Greek ἐλεημοσύνη (eleēmosúnē).
drachm, dram, dirham (weight unit equal to ¹⁄₄₀₀ oka, in Greece equal to 3.203 grams) · smidgen, ounce (small amount)
çekim: çoğul δράμια · tamlayan δραμιού
köken: Reborrowing from the mediaeval δράμι (drámi), δράμιον (drámion) from the Arabic دِرْهَم (dirham), from the ancient Persian 𐭦𐭥𐭦𐭭 (drahm), from the ancient Greek δραχμή f (drakhmḗ, “drachma”). Αlso see the Hellenistic diminutive δραχμίον n (drakhmíon).
pinch (a small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip) · smidgen (a very small quantity or amount) · a pinch of
köken: From Proto-Finnic *vähä. Cognate with Finnish vähä. Also compare Erzya веженсь (veženś, “younger, youngest, little”), Moksha вяжя (väžä, “the youngest one, the least one”).
crumb (small piece) · crumb (the soft internal portion of bread) · a trifle; a little
çekim: çoğul migas
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin mīca (“crumb”), from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”). Compare the borrowed doublet mica. Cognate with Portuguese miga and Spanish miga.