köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (cʾp̄wk' /čābuk/, “agile, nimble; excellent”), Northern Luri چںڤوک (çəvok), suffixed from an unattested root borrowed as Old Armenian ճեպ (čep, “haste”). Akin to Old Armenian ճապուկ (čapuk), Old Georgian ჭაპუკი (č̣aṗuḳi), ჭაბუკი (č̣abuḳi), Middle Iranian borrowings.
上手い, 巧い: good at something, skillful · 美味い, 旨い, 甘い, 甘美い, 味い, 美い: delicious, tasty · 旨い, 美い: favorable, preferable, good
eş: おいしい, 美味しい, 美味, んまい, うんまい, たくみ
köken: From Early Middle Japanese adjective うまし (umashi), with the 終(しゅう)止(し)形(けい) (shūshikei, “predicative form”) ending in し (shi) first replaced with the 連(れん)体(たい)形(けい) (rentaikei, “attributive form”) ending in き (ki), and then with the medial /-k-/ falling out to result in an ending of い (i). From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE. Sometimes reconstructed as…
who works in a quick and accurate manner, able to do something very quickly yet still very accurately; nimble, deft
çekim: karşılaştırma flinkare · üstünlük flinkast
köken: From Low German flink (“agile, quick”), probably from Middle Low German vlinken (“shining”). Perhaps ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *flakurōną (“to flutter, beat repeatedly”).
köken: Possibly cognate with Arabic وَكَلَ (wakala, “to trust”), also found in Akkadian and Ethiopic, from Proto-Semitic *wakal-. Alternatively, Huehnergard and Olyan propose k-h-l as the proto-root.