eş: anche se, benché, nonostante, per quanto, quantunque, sebbene
köken: Inherited from Latin male grātus (“ungrateful”). By surface analysis, mal(e) + grado. Cognate with Catalan malgrat and French malgré. Compare di buongrado and the borrowing grato.
in spite of, despite, regardless of, notwithstanding, although
köken: Cognate with Tatar карамастан (qaramastan), Kazakh қарамастан (qaramastan), Uzbek qaramasdan, Uyghur قارىماستىن (qarimastin, “despite, notwistanding”).
Эстән янып-көйөүгә ҡарамаҫтан, кисерештәренең тамсыһын да иренә күрһәтергә ашыҡманы.
köken: From Middle Dutch ondancs (“against the will of”), from the genitive of the noun ondanc (“disdain, unwill”), from ane (“without”) + danc (“thought, will”).
köken: From Old Swedish tratz, from Middle Low German trotz, tratz, from Middle High German trotz, trutz, tratz. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål tross, Norwegian Nynorsk trass, Danish trods, older forms trotz, tratz, German trotz.
despite, in spite of · around (circumventing) · outside of, except
eş: pomimo, wbrew
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *minǫti Proto-Slavic *-mo Proto-Slavic *mìmo Old Polish mimo Polish mimo Inherited from Old Polish mimo. By surface analysis, minąć + -mo.
in spite of, despite, notwithstanding, contrary to
köken: Inherited from Old Church Slavonic въпрѣкꙑ (vŭprěky), univerbation of в (v) + преки (preki). The later is a fossilized feminine plural accusative case of Bulgarian пряк (prjak, “direct”). Cognate with Russian вопреки́ (voprekí) (borrowed from the same Old Church Slavonic word).