köken: From classical -na adjective 珍(めずら) (mezura) + しい (-shii, adjective-forming suffix). Ultimately from Old Japanese verb 愛づ (medu, medzu), modern Japanese 愛でる (mederu, “to love; to admire, to appreciate”). The meaning originally referred to something that was admirable or favorable, something that had value, as an extension of the underlying verb. This meaning is used in the Man'yōshū, dating to…
scarce, not much of something · somewhat less than
çekim: karşılaştırma knappare · üstünlük knappast
köken: From Middle Low German knap, whence also German knapp, Danish knap. Further cognate with Dutch knap. Compare also Danish næppe (“hardly at all”).
çekim: karşılaştırma harvinaisempi · üstünlük harvinaisin
zıt: yleinen
köken: harvi- (“few”) + -nainen; the -i- is not regular, but may be by contamination from the dialectal harviainen (= harva + -iainen). Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot in 1851.
poor (lacking or having very little of the necessary means of subsistence) · poor (having poor inhabitants, lacking the necessary means for their subsistence) · poor, insufficient, scarce (lacking important components in its preparation; not available in sufficient quantity)
çekim: karşılaştırma trūcīgāks · üstünlük vistrūcīgākais
eş: nabags, nabadzīgs, mazturīgs, nemantīgs
zıt: bagāts, mantīgs, turīgs
köken: From trūk(t) (“to lack”) + -īgs, with palatalization of k to c.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese escasso, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *excarsus, for excerptus, from Latin excerpō. Cognate with Portuguese escasso, Spanish escaso, English scarce.