köken: Inherited from Middle French foible, from Old French feble, foible, from Vulgar Latin *febilis, dissimilated form of Latin flēbilis. Doublet of flébile, a borrowing. Compare English feeble.
weak (lacking in force or ability) · weak (lacking in taste or potency) · who cannot handle their drink
zıt: forte, potente
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fraco, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin flaccus (“flaccid”). Compare Galician fraco and Spanish flaco. Doublet of flaco, related to flácido.
aile: ponto fraco
Minha irmã é fraca para bebida. Ela ficou bêbada com duas latas de cerveja.
köken: From Old Japanese 弱し (*yo₁wasi), from Proto-Japonic *yowa-. Although not phonetically attested in Old Japanese texts in man'yōgana, the name of a king varies between 目弱王 in the Kojiki and 眉輪王, read as mayo₁wa-WAU in the Nihon Shoki.
köken: Inherited from Old Swedish klen, from Old Norse klénn, from Middle Low German klên, klêne, from Old Saxon klēni, from Proto-Germanic *klainiz (“clear, pure”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(e)lēi- (“gleaming”), from *gel- (“to gleam”). Doublet of klenod and klenät.
weak, delicate (unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain) · weak, feeble, frail, faint (lacking in force, strength or ability) · weak, slight, meager (lacking in taste, potency or severity)
çekim: karşılaştırma heikompi · üstünlük heikoin
zıt: vahva, tukeva, luja, vankka, kova, terve
köken: Unknown. Related to Ingrian heikko, Kukkuzi heikko and probably Veps heikembāńe (“weaker”) (South Veps), although such a word is barely attested. Compare also dialectal Estonian äigima (“to die down, subside, weaken”), dialectal Võro heik (“vain”).
köken: Disputed. By surface analysis, the term is an adjective formed according to the model of terms such as inermis. It has been proposed that the term may derive from dēbeō (“to owe”) in the manner as habilis (“able to have”), from habeō (“to have, hold”). However, according to De Vaan, the form dēbilis is isolated within Latin and therefore likely archaic, in which case it may preserve an older…
weak (not having well developed muscles) · weak, poor (which works badly, has little or no strength) · weak (without courage, without strength in a difficult situation; vulnerable to negative influences, temptation, etc.)
çekim: karşılaştırma vājāks · üstünlük visvājākais
eş: jēls, švaks
zıt: stiprs, spēcīgs
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *wāy-, *way- (“weak”), perhaps derived from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”). Initially there were u- and o-stem forms (compare Lithuanian dialectal vójus (“weak, sick”), Latvian dialectal vājs); ultimately replaced by a yu-stem variant, yielding standard language vājš. On the meaning change, compare pūst, both “to move, advance with the wind blowing” and “to moan, to complain.”…
köken: Attested since 1370. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese febre, borrowed from Old Occitan feble or Old French feble, from Vulgar Latin *fēbelis, from Latin flēbilis (“tearful, mournful, lamentable”).
tu coydas que nós somos molleres mãsas et febres cõmo son as outras, et sabe que nós nõ somos taes
köken: Borrowed from Ido febla, from English feeble and French faible, ultimately from Latin flēbilis (“lamentable; tearful”). Compare Italian fievole, Spanish feble.
La febla olda damo lante distiĝas per kurtaj paŝoj.