köken: From the incorrect folk etymology which connected Quentchen with Quantum (“quantum”) and led to the spelling Quäntchen with ⟨ä⟩ instead of ⟨e⟩ in the 1996 spelling reform.
köken: Borrowed from a Maghrebi Arabic form such as Algerian Arabic شوية (šwiyya) and Moroccan Arabic شوية (šwiyya), ultimately from a diminutive of Arabic شَيْء (šayʔ, “thing”).
Moi, déclara Zazie, je veux aller à l'école jusqu'à soixante-cinq ans. − Jusqu'à soixante-cinq ans? répéta Gabriel un chouïa surpris.
coin of little value · drachma (coin or weight) · dirham
çekim: çoğul दिरमों
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian درهم (dirham), from Arabic دِرْهَم (dirham), from Middle Persian 𐭦𐭥𐭦𐭭 (drahm), from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ). Doublet of दाम (dām).
pinch (a small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip) · smidgen (a very small quantity or amount) · a pinch of
Reborrowing from the mediaeval δράμι (drámi), δράμιον (drámion) from the Arabic دِرْهَم (dirham), from the ancient Persian 𐭦𐭥𐭦𐭭 (drahm), from the ancient Greek δραχμή f (drakhmḗ, “drachma”). Αlso see the Hellenistic diminutive δραχμίον n (drakhmíon).