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.
stingy
eş: robusto
köken: Past participle of agarrar.
mean, stingy
çekim: üstünlük avarissimo
eş: parco, parsimonioso, spilorcio, taccagno, tirchio, pidocchio
köken: From Latin avārus.
aile: avaramente
greedy · avaricious, covetous · selfish
çekim: karşılaştırma (по)жадне́е
eş: алчный, ненасытный, скупой, скаредный, страстный
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic жадьнъ (žadĭnŭ), from Proto-Slavic *žędьnъ (“avid, greedy”).
aile: жа́дничать, пожа́дничать, жаднова́тый, жа́дность, кровожа́дный
stingy, niggard, miserly
köken: Borrowed from Arabic بَخِيل (baḵīl).
stingy, greedy
çekim: karşılaştırma daha dargöz · üstünlük ən dargöz
zıt: əliaçıq, comərd, səxavətli
köken: From dar (“narrow”) + göz (“eye”).
desirous, covetous · greedy, stingy, miserly
çekim: karşılaştırma gieriger · üstünlük gierigst
eş: krenterig, vrekkig, hebzuchtig, inhalig, schraperig
köken: From Middle Dutch gireg, from Old Dutch gireg, from Proto-West Germanic *gerag, *girīg, from Proto-Germanic *gerugaz, equivalent to gier (“eager”) + -ig.
aile: aartsgierig, bloedgierig, geldgierig, gierigaard, gierigheid, nieuwsgierig
miserly, mean, stingy
eş: harpagão, mesquinho
zıt: esbanjador, gastador, pródigo
köken: From avaro + -ento.
miserly, stingy, penny-pinching, scrooge-like, tight-fisted
eş: εξηνταβελόνης, σπαγκοραμμένος, σπάγκος, σφιχτοχέρης, τσιφούτης, φιλάργυρος
zıt: γαλαντόμος
köken: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چنگانه, چنكانه (çingane, çingene), from Classical Persian چنگانه (čingāna), likely ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀθίγγανος (athínganos). Compare the etymological script τσιγγούνης (tsingoúnis) after τσιγγάνος (tsingános, “Gypsy”) and αθίγγανος (athínganos), described as a repatriated term by some dictionaries.
aile: ατσιγκούνευτα, ατσιγκούνευτος, τσιγκούναρος, τσιγκουνεύομαι, τσιγκουνιά, τσιγκούνικα, τσιγκούνικος
average; mean
köken: Sino-Korean word from 平均, from 平 (“level”) + 均 (“leveling”)
greedy (having greed; consumed by selfish desires) · eager (to have something)
çekim: karşılaştırma girigare · üstünlük girigast
köken: From Old Swedish girugher, gerogher (compare Norwegian girug), to an earlier Old East Norse *girugr ← *girugʀ, potentially to a Proto-Norse *ᚷᛁᚱᚢᚷᚨᛉ (*girugaʀ); in root akin to *girį̄ + *-gaz; via pattern from Old Danish girig, Middle Low German gerich, Old High German girig (compare German gierig). First recorded in the 13th century Westrogothic law (Westgöta-Lagen). Related to Old Swedish giri…
frugal, sparing, thrifty
çekim: karşılaştırma oszczędniejszy · üstünlük najoszczędniejszy
eş: skrzętny, nierozrzutny, gw. (Górny Śląsk) szporobliwy, gw. (Śląsk Cieszyński) szanobliwy, ekonomiczny, oszczędnościowy
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi Proto-Balto-Slavic *ab Proto-Slavic *o(b) Proto-Slavic *o(b)- Old Polish o- Polish o- Proto-Slavic *ščęditi Polish szczędzić Polish oszczędzić Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Balto-Slavic *-inas Proto-Slavic *-ьnъ Old Polish -ny Polish -ny Polish oszczędny From oszczędzić + -ny.
aile: oszczędność
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
arithmetic mean
çekim: çoğul aritmetické průměry · tamlayan aritmetického průměru
miser · greedy
çekim: çoğul avari · tamlayan avarului
köken: Borrowed from French avare, from Latin avarus.
stingy (covetous, meanly avaricious)
çekim: karşılaştırma fösvényebb · üstünlük legfösvényebb
köken: First attested in 1372. Of unknown origin. Perhaps a derivative with the noun-forming suffix -vény.
aile: fösvénység
miser; cheapskate; stingy person
çekim: çoğul קַמְצַנְכֶם
greasy · slippery · sticky
eş: slesk
köken: From fedt (“grease”) + -et or the past participle of fedte (“to grease”).
file tool, rasp tool
köken: Inherited from Malay kikir.
stingy; miserly; parsimonious
köken: Possibly non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 貧賤 (SV: bần tiện).