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).
粕, 糟: in sake production, the dregs or lees left over after extracting the liquid from the fermented rice mash · 滓, 渣: the sediment, impurities, dregs, or lees on the bottom of a container after a liquid has settled · 滓, 渣: anything left over after everything useful or good has been extracted
köken: Possibly from Old Japanese. First cited to the Wamyō Ruijushō of 934 CE.
aile: アメカス, イタカス, オラカス, カスラック, 糟を食う: → to receive a scolding, to receive terrible criticism, スペカス, ツイカス, ナチカス: a Nazi, a German person
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
Uncertain. Possibly derived from engrunar, assuming that verb derives from enrunar (“demolish”). If, however, the verb derives from the noun then this could represent a root of pre-Roman origin.