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.
köken: From Middle Dutch gireg, from Old Dutch gireg, from Proto-West Germanic *gerag, *girīg, from Proto-Germanic *gerugaz, equivalent to gier (“eager”) + -ig.
greedy, avaricious, grasping (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
çekim: karşılaştırma kapzsibb · üstünlük legkapzsibb
köken: First attested in 1506. From kap (“to seize, grasp”) + -si (adjective-forming suffix). Its original meaning was zsákmány (“booty, pillage, plunder”). The consonant "s" in the suffix became voiced over time.