köken: From Middle High German tiure, from Old High German tiuri, from Proto-West Germanic *diurī, from Proto-Germanic *diurijaz, akin to Old Saxon diuri, compare Dutch duur, English dear, Icelandic dýr, and Swedish dyr.
köken: Inherited from Middle French cher, from Old French cher, chier, from Latin cārum (“dear, valuable”), from Proto-Italic *kāros, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros, from *keh₂- (“to desire, to wish”).
aile: c'est un ici, là-bas
Ça sent l'argent... — Bu çok pahalı.
Quoi il y a, cher?
Tu connais moi j'ai du r'gret / J'ai du r'gret pour tout ça moi j't'ai fait / Pardonne-moi, viens-toi donc à la maison, chère
köken: From Middle Persian [Term?] (/bālā/), from Proto-Iranian *bārźаh- (via a series of sound changes *rź > *rd > l) + a suffix *-ā of unknown origin. The first component is derived from Proto-Iranian *barź- (“to elevate, increase (height)”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise up”).
aile: بالا آمدن, بالا آوردن, بالا بردن, بالا جستن, بالا رفتن, بالا زدن, بالا کردن, بالا کشیدن, بالا گرفتن
با چنان چشمی که بالا میشتافت نور چشمش آسمان را میشکافت
çekim: karşılaştırma mais alto · üstünlük o mais alto
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese alto, from Latin altus, ultimately of Proto-Indo-European origin. This form is likely a semi-learned term, or was influenced by learned elements of the language and uses such an orthography, as with Galician and Spanish alto (which have popularly inherited variants outo and oto, respectively). There was once likely an *outo in Old Galician-Portuguese that is not…
expensive, dear, precious (costing a lot of money) · dear, precious (emotionally endearing)
çekim: karşılaştırma ακριβότερος · üstünlük ακριβότερος
zıt: φτηνός
köken: From Late Koine Greek ἀκριβός (akribós, “valuable”), an alternative form of Ancient Greek ἀκριβής (akribḗs, “exact, accurate, precise”). Doublet of ακριβής (akrivís).
köken: From Early Middle Japanese adjective 高(たか)し (takashi), with the 終(しゅう)止(し)形(けい) (shūshikei, “predicative form”) ending in し (shi) first replaced with the 連(れん)体(たい)形(けい) (rentaikei, “attributive form”) ending in き (ki), and then with the medial /-k-/ falling out to result in an ending of い (i). From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *taka.
dear, expensive (high in price; costing much money) · expensive (e.g. of a person, offering e.g. a service for a high price) · expensive (requiring much resources)
çekim: karşılaştırma droższy · üstünlük najdroższy
eş: kosztowny, bliski
zıt: tani
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Balto-Slavic *dargás Proto-Slavic *dȏrgъ Old Polish drogi Polish drogi Inherited from Old Polish drogi.
aile: drogocenny, za drogie pieniądze, drogie kamienie, drożyzna, drożeć
köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀉𑀘𑁆𑀘 (ucca), from Sanskrit उच्च (ucca). Doublet of उच्च (ucc), a tatsama. Cognate with Punjabi ਉੱਚ (ucca) / اُچّ (ucc), Gujarati ઉંચું (uñcũ), Marathi उंच (uñca), Bengali উঁচু (ũcu), Dhivehi އުސް (us).
expensive (having a high price or cost) · precious, valuable (of high value or worth) · costly (requiring great sacrifice, having grave consequences)
çekim: karşılaştırma drágább · üstünlük legdrágább
zıt: olcsó
köken: Borrowed from a South Slavic or a West Slavic language. Compare Serbo-Croatian, Slovene drag; Czech, Slovak drahý; Polish drogi (“expensive, dear”), from Proto-Slavic *dorgъ. Hungarian most likely borrowed the feminine form of the Slavic adjective.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós Proto-Italic *altos Latin altus From altum, supine of alō (“grow”). Corresponds to Proto-Italic *altos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, a suffixed form of the root *h₂el- (“grow, nourish”) (compare Proto-Germanic *aldaz, whence English old.
animal, beast (as opposed to human beings, or of human beings acting brutally) · animal (a member of Animalia) · deer (a mammal of the family Cervidae)
çekim: çoğul dyrene · tamlayan dyrs
köken: From Old East Norse diūʀ, from Proto-Norse *ᛞᛖᚢᛉᚨ (*deuʀa), from Proto-Germanic *deuzą. Cognate with Swedish djur, English deer, German Tier, Dutch dier.
From Ottoman Turkish بهالو (bahalu, pahalı), equivalent to paha + -lı. Cognates with Azerbaijani bahalı, Kazakh бағалы (bağaly), Kyrgyz баалуу (baaluu)