köken: From Proto-Turkic *kat (“hard”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (qatïğ), Bashkir ҡаты (qatı), Kazakh қатты (qatty), Kyrgyz катуу (katuu), Uzbek qattiq, Tuvan кадыг (kadıg, “hard”).
difficult, hard, tough, arduous (not easy, requiring much effort) · refractory (difficult to treat) · difficult, uncooperative, troublesome (hard to manage)
çekim: karşılaştırma δυσκολότερος · üstünlük δυσκολότερος
eş: ζόρικος, απαιτητικός, δυσνόητο
zıt: εύκολος, εύληπτος, ευνοϊκός
köken: From Ancient Greek δύσκολος (dúskolos, “hard to satisfy with food”), from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad, hard, unfortunate”) + Ancient Greek -κολος (-kolos, “keeper, tender, watcher”).
Τα Κινέζικα είναι δύσκολη γλώσσα να μάθεις.
Η Ελλάδα περνάει δύσκολους καιρούς με την οικονομία της.
köken: First attested in the Garye eonhae (家禮諺解 / 가례언해), 1632, as Early Modern Korean ᄃᆞᆫᄃᆞᆫᄒᆞ다 (Yale: tonton-hota). Equivalent to 단단 (dandan) + -하다 (-hada, “to do”, light verb deriving adjectives).
heavy (having much physical weight) · heavy, hard (labored, slow, sluggish) · heavy, hard (i.e. of a step, done stronger than usual; of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense)
çekim: karşılaştırma cięższy · üstünlük najcięższy
eş: trudny, niełatwy, wyczerpujący
zıt: lekki
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *tengʰ-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *tingús Proto-Slavic *tęžьkъ Old Polish ciężki Polish ciężki Inherited from Old Polish ciężki.
çekim: karşılaştırma krušnější · üstünlük nejkrušnější
eş: perný
köken: The adjective, suffixed with + -ný is derived from Old Czech krušiti (“harrow, earlier grind, crush”), which is from Proto-Slavic *krušiti. This was probably derived from Proto-Slavic *kruxъ ("piece, fragment"), but the reverse way is also possible.