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.
¡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: From Middle Dutch arm, from Old Dutch arm, from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz (“arm”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“a fitting, joint”), a suffixed form of *h₂er- (“to join, fit together”). Cognate to Avestan 𐬀𐬭𐬨𐬀 (arma) and Old Persian [script needed] (arma).
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).