meager

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• General-American: /ˈmiɡɚ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmiːɡə/
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• rhymes with -iːɡə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: M IY1 G ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English megre, from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh2ḱrós. Akin, through the Indo-European root, to Old English mæġer (“meager, lean”), West Frisian meager (“meager”), Dutch mager (“meager”), German mager, Icelandic magr whence the Icelandic magur, Norwegian Bokmål mager and Danish mager. Doublet of maigre.

61 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: mpakur — lean
• Albanian: lig — lean
• Arabic: ضَئِيل (ḍaʔīl) — lean
• Czech: hubený — lean
• Dutch: mager — lean
• Esperanto: magra — lean
• Finnish: laiha — lean
• French: maigre — lean
• Georgian: მჭლე (mč̣le) — lean
• Georgian: გამხდარი (gamxdari) — lean
• German: mager — lean
• Greek: ισχνός (ischnós) — lean
• Italian: magro — lean
• Kalmyk: ярһ (yarğ) — lean
• Latin: macer — lean
• Māori: kōhoka — lean
• Norwegian: mager — lean
• Portuguese: magro — lean
• Romanian: macru — lean
• Russian: худо́й (xudój) — lean
• Russian: то́щий (tóščij) — lean
• Spanish: magro — lean
• Swedish: mager — lean
• Ottoman Turkish: ضعیف (zaʼif) — lean
• Ottoman Turkish: نازك (nâzik) — lean
• Albanian: lig — poor, deficient or inferior
• Czech: ubohý — poor, deficient or inferior
• Czech: mizerný — poor, deficient or inferior
• Czech: nedostačující — poor, deficient or inferior
• Dutch: mager — poor, deficient or inferior
• Dutch: schamel — poor, deficient or inferior
• Finnish: niukka — poor, deficient or inferior
• French: maigre — poor, deficient or inferior
• French: pauvre — poor, deficient or inferior
• Georgian: ღარიბი (ɣaribi) — poor, deficient or inferior
• Georgian: გალეული (galeuli) — poor, deficient or inferior
• Georgian: უქონელი (ukoneli) — poor, deficient or inferior
• German: mager — poor, deficient or inferior
• Greek: ισχνός (ischnós) — poor, deficient or inferior
• Greek: πενιχρός (penichrós) — poor, deficient or inferior
• Greek: λιγοστός (ligostós) — poor, deficient or inferior
• Greek: γλίσχρος (glíschros) — poor, deficient or inferior
• Kazakh: жұтаң (jūtañ) — poor, deficient or inferior
• Kazakh: жарымаған (jarymağan) — poor, deficient or inferior
• Kazakh: тақ-тұқ (taq-tūq) — poor, deficient or inferior
• Latin: macer — poor, deficient or inferior
• Norwegian: mager — poor, deficient or inferior
• Plautdietsch: pukrich — poor, deficient or inferior
• Portuguese: pobre — poor, deficient or inferior
• Russian: ску́дный (skúdnyj) — poor, deficient or inferior
• Russian: бе́дный (bédnyj) — poor, deficient or inferior
• Russian: ми́зерный (mízernyj) — poor, deficient or inferior
• Spanish: pobre — poor, deficient or inferior
• Spanish: escaso — poor, deficient or inferior
• Spanish: deficiente — poor, deficient or inferior
• Spanish: exiguo — poor, deficient or inferior
• Spanish: parvo — poor, deficient or inferior
• Spanish: parco — poor, deficient or inferior
• Spanish: mísero — poor, deficient or inferior
• Ukrainian: мізе́рний (mizérnyj) — poor, deficient or inferior
• Ukrainian: убо́гий (ubóhyj) — poor, deficient or inferior