köken: From Middle High German arm, from Old High German arm, from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erH- (“to be sparse”) or alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ-, whence English orphan. Cognate with Old English earm.
eş: indigent, misérable, miséreux, sans le sou, fauché, sans-dents
köken: Inherited from Middle French pauvre, relatinisation of earlier povre, from Old French povre, inherited from Latin pauper, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”).
aile: appauvrir, parent pauvre, pauvre comme Job, pauvre de, pauvreté
of bad quality, poor, shoddy · shabby, seedy, cheesy · stingy, small-minded, scrounger, mean
köken: Uncertain, but most likely from kurtí (“short, small”) from Caló (a Romani-Iberian dialect), first introduced in Spanish in the 20th century as a Madrid slang.
Me leí el libro. — Kitabı okudum.
¡Pero qué lugar más cutre al que me has traído!
Tus amigos son unos cutres. Siempre que vamos a un bar dicen que se les ha olvidado la cartera.
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coitado, cuitado; by surface analysis, coitar (“to torment”) + -ado (forms past participles). Compare coagido and Galician coitado. Unrelated to coito.
köken: 가난 (ganan) + -하다 (-hada, “to do”, light verb deriving adjectives). First attested in the Bullyu dugongbu si eonhae (分類杜工部詩諺解 / 분류두공부시언해), 1481, as Middle Korean 가난ᄒᆞ다〮 (Yale: kànànhòtá).
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.
çekim: karşılaştırma fattigere · üstünlük fattigst
zıt: rig
köken: From Old Danish fatøkær, from Old Norse fátœkr, from fár (“few”) + tœkr (“taking”). Cognate with Norwegian fattig, Swedish fattig, and Icelandic fátækur.
From Ottoman Turkish قیت (kıt, “scarce, few”), from Proto-Turkic *kït (“not enough, insufficient”). Cognate with Azerbaijani qıt (“scarce”), Turkmen gyt (“few, scarce”), etc. Nişanyan falsely derives it from Arabic قَحْط (qaḥṭ, “dearth, scarcity”).