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: Inherited from Old French chiche, possibly from or related to Latin cīccum, or alternatively an expressive or onomatopoetic expression (compare Spanish chico, Catalan xic). The interjection probably derives from the "capable" sense, suggesting in its usage "not capable".
greedy (having greed; consumed by selfish desires) · eager (to have something)
çekim: karşılaştırma girigare · üstünlük girigast
köken: From Old Swedish girugher, gerogher (compare Norwegian girug), to an earlier Old East Norse *girugr ← *girugʀ, potentially to a Proto-Norse *ᚷᛁᚱᚢᚷᚨᛉ (*girugaʀ); in root akin to *girį̄ + *-gaz; via pattern from Old Danish girig, Middle Low German gerich, Old High German girig (compare German gierig). First recorded in the 13th century Westrogothic law (Westgöta-Lagen). Related to Old Swedish giri…
brilliantine, fixature (hair pomade, making the hair shine brilliantly)
çekim: çoğul brylantyny · tamlayan brylantyny
eş: pomada
köken: Etymology tree French brillant Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnus French -in Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -am Old French -e French -e French -ine French brillantinebor. Polish brylantyna Borrowed from French brillantine.
köken: Of unknown origin. McGregor tentatively postulates a combination of कान (kān, “ear”) + चूसना (cūsnā, “to suck”), lit. "ear-sucked"; compare मक्खीचूस (makkhīcūs, “miser”, literally “fly-sucker”) for a similar formation.