hair's breadth; whisker (very small distance between two things)
çekim: çoğul Haaresbreiten · tamlayan Haaresbreiten
köken: From Haar (“hair”) + -es- + Breite (“breadth”), literally “breadth of a hair”.
aile: um Haaresbreite
Es hat nur eine Haaresbreite gefehlt und ich wäre vom LKW überfahren worden.
barely, hardly, scarcely, by the skin of one's teeth
hair (on the body) · surface (of water) · fur (on the body)
çekim: çoğul peli
eş: mantello, manto, pellame, vello, pelliccia, capello
köken: From Latin pilus, from Proto-Indo-European *pil-.
Rusçaв двух шага́х, едва́, едва́-едва́, е́ле, е́ле-е́ле, наси́лу
thread · string · trickle (a very thin flow)
çekim: çoğul fios
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fio, from Latin fīlum. Compare Galician fío and Spanish filo, hilo.
aile: afiar, desfiar, fiapo, fiar, fio condutor, fio dental, fiozão, fiozinho
fio de água
fio de azeite
fio da navalha
παρά λίγο
eş: στο τσακ, ίσα που πρόλαβα
a hair's breadth (a small margin)
çekim: çoğul hårsmåner · tamlayan hårsmåns
köken: hår + -s- + mån (“margin”)
med en hårsmån
vinna med en hårsmån
by the skin of one's teeth, barely, only just
eş: niemal, nieomal, o włos, o mało, o mało co, o mały figiel
köken: Literally, “by [a] little hair”.
Çekçefous (eril) /ˈfou̯s/ whisker (a hair of the beard)
çekim: çoğul fousy · tamlayan fousu
eş: chlup, bradka, knír, strniště
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ǫsъ.
aile: basama s fousama, fousatý, fousáč, Fousek, fousek, fousy, na fous, na fous přesně, nejít někomu něco pod fousy, o fous
barely, only just
Jeg overlevede på et hængende hår.
Norveççepå hengende håret
Bulgarcaкосъм (eril) /ˈkɔsɐm/ hair (a single hair) · filament
çekim: çoğul ко́сми
köken: From Proto-Slavic *kosmъ.
aile: космат, космест, косматост
Slovakçachlp, o chlp (eril) /xl̩p/ hair (pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals) · trichome
köken: Cognate of Czech chlup.
aile: chlpatý, chlpatosť
by the skin of one's teeth, by a hair's breadth
köken: Literally, “between wattle and jamb”
Idir cleith is ursain d'imigh sé