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.
stingy, miserly
çekim: çoğul avares
eş: fesse-mathieu, grippe-sou, harpagon, juif, parcimonieux, picsou
köken: From a modification of the older popular form aver after the original etymology, Latin avarus.
stingy
eş: robusto
köken: Past participle of agarrar.
mean, stingy
çekim: üstünlük avarissimo
eş: parco, parsimonioso, spilorcio, taccagno, tirchio, pidocchio
köken: From Latin avārus.
aile: avaramente
greedy · avaricious, covetous · selfish
çekim: karşılaştırma (по)жадне́е
eş: алчный, ненасытный, скупой, скаредный, страстный
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic жадьнъ (žadĭnŭ), from Proto-Slavic *žędьnъ (“avid, greedy”).
aile: жа́дничать, пожа́дничать, жаднова́тый, жа́дность, кровожа́дный
stingy, niggard, miserly
köken: Borrowed from Arabic بَخِيل (baḵīl).
stingy, greedy
çekim: karşılaştırma daha dargöz · üstünlük ən dargöz
zıt: əliaçıq, comərd, səxavətli
köken: From dar (“narrow”) + göz (“eye”).
desirous, covetous · greedy, stingy, miserly
çekim: karşılaştırma gieriger · üstünlük gierigst
eş: krenterig, vrekkig, hebzuchtig, inhalig, schraperig
köken: From Middle Dutch gireg, from Old Dutch gireg, from Proto-West Germanic *gerag, *girīg, from Proto-Germanic *gerugaz, equivalent to gier (“eager”) + -ig.
aile: aartsgierig, bloedgierig, geldgierig, gierigaard, gierigheid, nieuwsgierig
miserly, mean, stingy
eş: harpagão, mesquinho
zıt: esbanjador, gastador, pródigo
köken: From avaro + -ento.
housekeeper · steward · frugal or thrifty person
çekim: çoğul οικονόμοι · tamlayan οικονόμου
köken: From Ancient Greek οἰκονόμος (oikonómos), from οἶκος (oîkos, “house, home, estate”) + νόμος (nómos, “law, rule, authority”).
stingy, tight-fisted, cheap
köken: 인색(吝嗇) (insaek) + -하다 (-hada, “to do”, light verb deriving adjectives).
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…
frugal, sparing, thrifty
çekim: karşılaştırma oszczędniejszy · üstünlük najoszczędniejszy
eş: skrzętny, nierozrzutny, gw. (Górny Śląsk) szporobliwy, gw. (Śląsk Cieszyński) szanobliwy, ekonomiczny, oszczędnościowy
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi Proto-Balto-Slavic *ab Proto-Slavic *o(b) Proto-Slavic *o(b)- Old Polish o- Polish o- Proto-Slavic *ščęditi Polish szczędzić Polish oszczędzić Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Balto-Slavic *-inas Proto-Slavic *-ьnъ Old Polish -ny Polish -ny Polish oszczędny From oszczędzić + -ny.
aile: oszczędność
miserly, stingy
köken: Of unknown origin. McGregor tentatively postulates a combination of कान (kān, “ear”) + चूसना (cūsnā, “to suck”), lit. "ear-sucked"; compare मक्खीचूस (makkhīcūs, “miser”, literally “fly-sucker”) for a similar formation.
aile: कंजूसी
arithmetic mean
çekim: çoğul aritmetické průměry · tamlayan aritmetického průměru
miser · greedy
çekim: çoğul avari · tamlayan avarului
köken: Borrowed from French avare, from Latin avarus.
stingy (covetous, meanly avaricious)
çekim: karşılaştırma fösvényebb · üstünlük legfösvényebb
köken: First attested in 1372. Of unknown origin. Perhaps a derivative with the noun-forming suffix -vény.
aile: fösvénység
miser; cheapskate; stingy person
çekim: çoğul קַמְצַנְכֶם
greasy · slippery · sticky
eş: slesk
köken: From fedt (“grease”) + -et or the past participle of fedte (“to grease”).
file tool, rasp tool
köken: Inherited from Malay kikir.
stingy; miserly; parsimonious
köken: Possibly non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 貧賤 (SV: bần tiện).
avaricious, greedy (who has a passionate desire to appropriate goods)
çekim: karşılaştırma pohlẹ̄pnejši · üstünlük nȁjpohlẹ̄pnejši
köken: From pohlȅp + -en.