miser

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• /ˈmaɪzə(ɹ)/
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From Middle English misser, from Late Latin miser (“wretched, unfortunate, unhappy, miserable, sick, ill, bad, worthless, etc.”).

182 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بَخِيل (baḵīl) — skinflint or scrooge
• Arabic: بَخِيلَة (baḵīla) — skinflint or scrooge
• Armenian: ժլատ (žlat) — skinflint or scrooge
• Armenian: կծծի (kcci) — skinflint or scrooge
• Armenian: գծուծ (gcuc) — skinflint or scrooge
• Armenian: քցիպ (kʻcʻip) — skinflint or scrooge
• Bulgarian: скъперник (skǎpernik) — skinflint or scrooge
• Bulgarian: стипца (stipca) — skinflint or scrooge
• Catalan: avar — skinflint or scrooge
• Catalan: agarrat — skinflint or scrooge
• Catalan: gasiu — skinflint or scrooge
• Chinese Cantonese: 孤寒鬼 (gu1 hon4 gwai2) — skinflint or scrooge
• Chinese: 凍霜鬼 /冻霜鬼 (tàng-sng-kúi) — skinflint or scrooge
• Chinese Mandarin: 吝嗇鬼 /吝啬鬼 (lìnsèguǐ) — skinflint or scrooge
• Chinese Mandarin: 守財奴 /守财奴 (shǒucáinú) — skinflint or scrooge
• Chinese Mandarin: 小气鬼 (xiǎoqìguǐ) — skinflint or scrooge
• Czech: držgrešle — skinflint or scrooge
• Czech: skrblík — skinflint or scrooge
• Czech: lakomec — skinflint or scrooge
• Danish: gnier — skinflint or scrooge
• Danish: fedtsyl — skinflint or scrooge
• Dutch: gierigaard — skinflint or scrooge
• Dutch: vrek — skinflint or scrooge
• Dutch: krentenkakker — skinflint or scrooge
• Dutch: krent — skinflint or scrooge
• Dutch: schraper — skinflint or scrooge
• Esperanto: avarulo — skinflint or scrooge
• Esperanto: avarulino — skinflint or scrooge
• Faroese: kargapisa — skinflint or scrooge
• Faroese: nábalsklógv — skinflint or scrooge
• Fijian: mamaqi — skinflint or scrooge
• Finnish: saituri — skinflint or scrooge
• Finnish: kitupiikki — skinflint or scrooge
• Finnish: penninvenyttäjä — skinflint or scrooge
• Finnish: itarus — skinflint or scrooge
• French: avare — skinflint or scrooge
• French: crevard — skinflint or scrooge
• French: grigou — skinflint or scrooge
• French: grippe-sou — skinflint or scrooge
• French: harpagon — skinflint or scrooge
• French: picsou — skinflint or scrooge
• French: pingre — skinflint or scrooge
• French: radin — skinflint or scrooge
• French: rat — skinflint or scrooge
• French: séraphin — skinflint or scrooge
• Georgian: ძუნწი (ʒunc̣i) — skinflint or scrooge
• German: Geizhals — skinflint or scrooge
• German: Geizkragen — skinflint or scrooge
• German: Geiziger — skinflint or scrooge
• German: Geizige — skinflint or scrooge
• German: Pfennigfuchser — skinflint or scrooge
• German: Pfennigfuchserin — skinflint or scrooge
• German: Pfennigklauber — skinflint or scrooge
• German: Pfennigklauberin — skinflint or scrooge
• German: Rappenspalter — skinflint or scrooge
• German: Rappenspalterin — skinflint or scrooge
• German: Knauser — skinflint or scrooge
• German: Knauserin — skinflint or scrooge
• German: Knicker — skinflint or scrooge
• German: Knickerin — skinflint or scrooge
• Greek: τσιγγούνης (tsingoúnis) — skinflint or scrooge
• Greek: φιλάργυρος (filárgyros) — skinflint or scrooge
• Greek: φραγκοφονιάς (fragkofoniás) — skinflint or scrooge
• Ancient Greek: θρῑ́ψ (thrī́ps) — skinflint or scrooge
• Hebrew: קמצן (qamtsan) — skinflint or scrooge
• Hindi: कंजूस (kañjūs) — skinflint or scrooge
• Hungarian: fösvény — skinflint or scrooge
• Hungarian: sóher — skinflint or scrooge
• Hungarian: smucig — skinflint or scrooge
• Icelandic: nirfill — skinflint or scrooge
• Irish: cníopaire — skinflint or scrooge
• Italian: avaro — skinflint or scrooge
• Italian: avara — skinflint or scrooge
• Italian: pitocco — skinflint or scrooge
• Italian: pitocca — skinflint or scrooge
• Italian: spilorcio — skinflint or scrooge
• Italian: spilorcia — skinflint or scrooge
• Italian: taccagno — skinflint or scrooge
• Italian: taccagna — skinflint or scrooge
• Italian: tirchio — skinflint or scrooge
• Italian: tirchia — skinflint or scrooge
• Japanese: 守銭奴 (shusendo) — skinflint or scrooge
• Japanese: ケチ (kechi) — skinflint or scrooge
• Japanese: けちんぼう (kechinbō) — skinflint or scrooge
• Korean: 수전노 (sujeonno) — skinflint or scrooge
• Latin: avarus — skinflint or scrooge
• Latin: avara — skinflint or scrooge
• Latin: parcēprōmus — skinflint or scrooge
• Limburgish: bies — skinflint or scrooge
• Low German: Pennschieter — skinflint or scrooge
• Low German: Pennschieterin — skinflint or scrooge
• Low German: Pennschietersch — skinflint or scrooge
• Low German: Pennschietersche — skinflint or scrooge
• Low German: Giezknuppen — skinflint or scrooge
• Macedonian: циција (cicija) — skinflint or scrooge
• Macedonian: скржавец (skržavec) — skinflint or scrooge
• Malayalam: പിശുക്കൻ (piśukkaṉ) — skinflint or scrooge
• Malayalam: അറുപിശുക്കൻ (aṟupiśukkaṉ) — skinflint or scrooge
• Malayalam: ലുബ്ധൻ (lubdhaṉ) — skinflint or scrooge
• Māori: atuapo — skinflint or scrooge
• Māori: porokaihākere — skinflint or scrooge
• Māori: kaihākere — skinflint or scrooge
• Māori: kaikoropeke — skinflint or scrooge
• Māori: ringapoto — skinflint or scrooge
• Māori: tōhē — skinflint or scrooge
• Māori: pitokite — skinflint or scrooge
• Mon: အိက်ခအေတ် — skinflint or scrooge
• Norman: agravé — skinflint or scrooge
• Norman: avare — skinflint or scrooge
• Norman: rapinneux — skinflint or scrooge
• Norwegian: gjerrigknark — skinflint or scrooge
• Occitan: sarrat — skinflint or scrooge
• Occitan: cusson — skinflint or scrooge
• Occitan: avar — skinflint or scrooge
• Old Uyghur: 𐽲𐽶𐽴 (qyz) — skinflint or scrooge
• Persian: خسیس (xasis) — skinflint or scrooge
• Persian: اسکروج (eskoruj) — skinflint or scrooge
• Polish: kutwa — skinflint or scrooge
• Polish: sknera — skinflint or scrooge
• Polish: sknerus — skinflint or scrooge
• Polish: skąpiec — skinflint or scrooge
• Polish: dusigrosz — skinflint or scrooge
• Portuguese: avarento — skinflint or scrooge
• Portuguese: avarenta — skinflint or scrooge
• Portuguese: mão de vaca — skinflint or scrooge
• Portuguese: sovina — skinflint or scrooge
• Portuguese: muquirana — skinflint or scrooge
• Portuguese: pão-duro — skinflint or scrooge
• Portuguese: forreta — skinflint or scrooge
• Romanian: zgârcit — skinflint or scrooge
• Russian: скря́га (skrjága) — skinflint or scrooge
• Russian: жа́дина (žádina) — skinflint or scrooge
• Russian: скупе́ц (skupéc) — skinflint or scrooge
• Russian: скупердя́й (skuperdjáj) — skinflint or scrooge
• Russian: крохобо́р (kroxobór) — skinflint or scrooge
• Russian: курку́ль (kurkúlʹ) — skinflint or scrooge
• Russian: жмот (žmot) — skinflint or scrooge
• Serbo-Croatian: шкртац — skinflint or scrooge
• Serbo-Croatian: шкртица — skinflint or scrooge
• Serbo-Croatian: тврдица — skinflint or scrooge
• Serbo-Croatian: škrtac — skinflint or scrooge
• Serbo-Croatian: škrtica — skinflint or scrooge
• Serbo-Croatian: tvrdica — skinflint or scrooge
• Spanish: tacaño — skinflint or scrooge
• Spanish: rata — skinflint or scrooge
• Spanish: pesetero — skinflint or scrooge
• Spanish: agarrado — skinflint or scrooge
• Spanish: roñoso — skinflint or scrooge
• Spanish: codo — skinflint or scrooge
• Spanish: cicatero — skinflint or scrooge
• Spanish: mano de guagua — skinflint or scrooge
• Spanish: mezquino — skinflint or scrooge
• Spanish: pilinque — skinflint or scrooge
• Spanish: pilinqui — skinflint or scrooge
• Spanish: pilishne — skinflint or scrooge
• Spanish: cerracatín — skinflint or scrooge
• Spanish: endurador — skinflint or scrooge
• Swahili: mbahili — skinflint or scrooge
• Swedish: gnidare — skinflint or scrooge
• Swedish: girigbuk — skinflint or scrooge
• Swedish: snåljåp — skinflint or scrooge
• Swedish: snållänning — skinflint or scrooge
• Tagalog: kuripot — skinflint or scrooge
• Tagalog: singgi — skinflint or scrooge
• Telugu: లోభి (lōbhi) — skinflint or scrooge
• Telugu: పిసినారి (pisināri) — skinflint or scrooge
• Telugu: పీనాసి (pīnāsi) — skinflint or scrooge
• Telugu: పీనాశి (pīnāśi) — skinflint or scrooge
• Turkish: cimri — skinflint or scrooge
• Turkish: pinti — skinflint or scrooge
• Turkish: hasis — skinflint or scrooge
• Ottoman Turkish: جام گوز (cam göz) — skinflint or scrooge
• Urdu: چنڈال — skinflint or scrooge
• Vietnamese: thần giữ của — skinflint or scrooge
• Vilamovian: gȧjcwonst — skinflint or scrooge
• Vilamovian: gȧjcwenst — skinflint or scrooge
• Volapük: lavaran — skinflint or scrooge
• Volapük: hilavaran — skinflint or scrooge
• Volapük: jilavaran — skinflint or scrooge
• Yiddish: קמצן (kamtsn) — skinflint or scrooge
• Yiddish: סקנער (skner) — skinflint or scrooge
• Yiddish: סקנערוק (skneruk) — skinflint or scrooge