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.
miserly
eş: amarrete, avaro, mezquino
köken: From Arabic سَرَّاق التِّين (sarrāq at-tīn, “thief of figs”).
mean, stingy
çekim: üstünlük avarissimo
eş: parco, parsimonioso, spilorcio, taccagno, tirchio, pidocchio
köken: From Latin avārus.
aile: avaramente
miser · scrooge
çekim: çoğul خسیسها
köken: From Arabic خَسِيس (ḵasīs).
stingy, mean, miserly, niggardly
köken: From Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn, “poor”). Compare Galician mesquiño, Spanish mezquino, French mesquin.
aile: mesquinhar, mesquinhez, mesquinhice
stingy, tight-fisted, cheap
köken: 인색(吝嗇) (insaek) + -하다 (-hada, “to do”, light verb deriving adjectives).
stingy, miserly, parsimonious, niggardly · avaricious · scant, scanty, insufficient
çekim: karşılaştırma bardziej skąpy · üstünlük najbardziej skąpy
eş: chytry, centusiowski, mały, niedostateczny, ograniczony
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *skǫpъ Polish skąpy Inherited from Proto-Slavic *skǫpъ.
aile: skąpiec, skąpiradło, skąpstwo, skąpić, poskąpić
Hintçe 🔊 कंजूस /kən.d͡ʒuːs/ 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
stingy (covetous, meanly avaricious)
çekim: karşılaştırma itarampi · üstünlük itarin
köken: Unknown. Related to Karelian itara.
aile: itarasti, itaruus
stingy, niggardly, miserly
çekim: karşılaştırma lakomější · üstünlük nejlakomější
eş: skoupý, lakotný, hamižný, skrblický, držgrešle
zıt: štědrý
köken: Inherited from Old Czech lakomý, from Proto-Slavic *olkomъ.
aile: lakomec, lakomnice, lakomství
stingy, greedy
köken: From Old Danish girigh. Borrowed from Middle Low German girich. Cognates include also Swedish girig, Norwegian Bokmål gjerrig and German gierig
aile: gerrighed
hungry, peckish · hungry person
çekim: karşılaştırma ocraí · üstünlük is ocraí
köken: From Middle Irish occorach (“hungry”) (compare occoras (“craving; desire, need”), modern ocras (“hunger”)).
aile: ocrachán
avaricious, stingy
köken: From Old East Slavic скупъ (skupŭ), from Proto-Slavic *skǫpъ. Cognate with Russian скупо́й (skupój).
aile: ску́пасць
tight-fisted, miserly, stingy
çekim: karşılaştırma nearer the bane · üstünlük nearest the bane
köken: Literally, “near the bone”.
cmn 🔊 吝嗇 /吝啬 , 小氣 /小气 , 摳 /抠 , 摳門 /抠门