meager, scanty, sparse · tenuous · poor; impoverished
çekim: karşılaştırma dürftiger · üstünlük am dürftigsten
köken: From Middle High German dürftic, from Old High German durftic, ultimately from the root of dürfen (“to be allowed”).
bar (drinking establishment)
çekim: çoğul chiringos
köken: Of Latin American origin.
aile: chiringuito
🔊 Parece, en fin, que hoy tampoco habrá ningún chiringo del PORE en las inmediaciones del campo del Espanyol.
small, exiguous, meagre/meager, scant/scanty, narrow, slender, poor
eş: contenuto, debole, esile, insignificante, insufficiente, irrilevante
köken: From Latin exiguus (“strict, exact”).
aile: esiguamente
🔊 Viveva in una casa abbastanza esigua.
little · insignificant, trivial
çekim: karşılaştırma geringer · üstünlük geringst
köken: From Middle Dutch gering, from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *reng-ja, of obscure origin. Probably not related to wringen.
scarce, rare · sparse, scanty
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese escasso, from Vulgar Latin *excarsus, for Latin excerptus, from excerpō. Thus doublet of excerto.
aile: escassamente, escassez
🔊 A água é escassa nesta área.
🔊 O tempo está a ficar escasso.
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”).
aile: knappa in, knapphet, knapphändig
🔊 tiden är knapp
🔊 växa upp under knappa omständigheter
🔊 en knapp kilometer
scanty, scarce, scant, thin · synonym of täpärä (“low-, having little, having less”) · synonym of vähä-
çekim: karşılaştırma niukempi · üstünlük niukin
köken: Probably from niuha, niu- + -kka (like tiuha ~ tiukka). Similarity with Swedish njugg appears to be a coincidence.
aile: niukahko, niukalti, niukasti, niukin naukin, niukkuus, Niukkanen, niukentaa, niuketa, niukkaeleinen, niukkalajinen
🔊 niukkaluminen talvi
small · minor (the smaller of two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number)
çekim: karşılaştırma menší · üstünlük nejmenší
eş: drobný, nevelký, nicotný, nevalný, mizivý, nepatrný
zıt: velký
köken: Inherited from Old Czech malý, from Proto-Slavic *malъ.
aile: maličkatý, maličký, maliličký, malilinkatý, malilinký, malilounký, malininký, malinkatý, malinký, maloučký
🔊 malá tercie
economical
köken: From economic + -os.
insufficient, inadequate, unsatisfactory, deficient
çekim: karşılaştırma elégtelenebb · üstünlük legelégtelenebb
köken: From elég (“enough, sufficient”) + -telen (“-less, without”, privative adjective-forming suffix).
aile: elégtelenség
strict, exact · paltry, inadequate, small, scanty, slight, little
çekim: çoğul exiguī · tamlayan exiguī
zıt: adaequātus
köken: Etymology tree Latin exig(ō) Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Italic *-wos Latin -uus Latin exiguus From exig(ō) (“to demand”) + -uus.
aile: exiguē, exiguō, exiguum
🔊 “Fēmina, quae nostrīs errāns in fīnibus urbem
scant, scarce · brief, concise
çekim: çoğul knapper · tamlayan knaps
köken: Probably from Middle Low German knap, otherwise related to it. Further cognate with German knapp, Swedish knapp, Dutch knap.
insufficient, inadequate
çekim: karşılaştırma недоста́тъчни
zıt: оби́лен
scarce, rare · sparse, scanty · foolish, injudicious
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese escasso, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *excarsus, for excerptus, from Latin excerpō. Cognate with Portuguese escasso, Spanish escaso, English scarce.
aile: escasamente, escaseza
short-tailed · curtailed, scanty
çekim: karşılaştırma gearreireaballaí · üstünlük is gearreireaballaí
köken: From gearr- (“short”) + eireaball (“tail”) + -ach.
poor · scanty
çekim: karşılaştırma უფრო მწირი · üstünlük ყველაზე მწირი
aile: სიმწირე
in short supply, scarce
köken: Etymology tree Latin maleder. Old French mal- Middle French mal- French mal-bor. Esperanto mal- Latin abundōder. Esperanto abunda Esperanto malabunda From mal- + abunda.