köken: Borrowed from a Maghrebi Arabic form such as Algerian Arabic شوية (šwiyya) and Moroccan Arabic شوية (šwiyya), ultimately from a diminutive of Arabic شَيْء (šayʔ, “thing”).
Moi, déclara Zazie, je veux aller à l'école jusqu'à soixante-cinq ans. − Jusqu'à soixante-cinq ans? répéta Gabriel un chouïa surpris.
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).
köken: From a root *hip(p)e- shared with hiven, dialectal hive (“sweet snack”) and dialectal hippi (“peak, tip”). SSA argues for a sound-symbolic origin, while NSES connects both with hipiä (and thus indirectly also hius).
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 Middle High German spur, spor (usually n, also rarely m and f), from Old High German spor, *spur, from Proto-Germanic *spurą n. Compare German Spur f.