skinny

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• /ˈskɪni/
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From Middle English skinny (“resembling skin”), equivalent to skin + -y. The meaning associated with lack of fat or muscle possibly derives from the phrase skin and bones; the meaning associated with nudity refers to the exposed skin.

111 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: نَحِيف (naḥīf) — thin
• Aromanian: slab — thin
• Asturian: flacu — thin
• Azerbaijani: arıq — thin
• Belarusian: худы́ (xudý) — thin
• Bulgarian: мъ́ршав (mǎ́ršav) — thin
• Catalan: magre — thin
• Cherokee: ᎤᎴᏐᏓ (ulesoda) — thin
• Chickasaw: chonna — thin
• Chinese Cantonese: 瘦 (sau3) — thin
• Chinese Mandarin: 瘦 (shòu) — thin
• Chinese Mandarin: 枯瘦 (kūshòu) — thin
• Chinese Mandarin: 皮包骨頭 /皮包骨头 (píbāogǔtóu) — thin
• Czech: hubený — thin
• Dutch: mager — thin
• Esperanto: magra — thin
• Finnish: laiha — thin
• Finnish: luiseva — thin
• French: maigre — thin
• French: maigrichon — thin
• French: maigrelet — thin
• German: mager — thin
• Greek: ισχνός (ischnós) — thin
• Ancient Greek: ἰσχνός (iskhnós) — thin
• Hebrew: רָזֶה — thin
• Hindi: पतला (patlā) — thin
• Hungarian: vékony — thin
• Indonesian: kurus — thin
• Italian: magro — thin
• Italian: smunto — thin
• Italian: tutta pelle — thin
• Italian: scarnito — thin
• Italian: sciupato — thin
• Italian: scavato — thin
• Italian: macilento — thin
• Italian: scheletrico — thin
• Italian: pelle e ossa — thin
• Italian: emaciato — thin
• Italian: secco — thin
• Italian: smilzo — thin
• Japanese: 骨と皮ばかりの (hone to kawa bakari no) — thin
• Japanese: やせこけた (yasekoketa) — thin
• Japanese: やせた (yaseta) — thin
• Javanese: kuru — thin
• Javanese: kera — thin
• Javanese: garing — thin
• Javanese: gering — thin
• Kabuverdianu: magru — thin
• Kabuverdianu: mógre — thin
• Khmer: ស្គមស្គាំង (skɔɔm skeaŋ) — thin
• Khmer: ស្គម (skɔɔm) — thin
• Korean: 마른 (mareun) — thin
• Korean: 빼빼한 (ppaeppaehan) — thin
• Lao: ຈ່ອຍ (chǭi) — thin
• Latin: macer — thin
• Latin: gracilis — thin
• Louisiana Creole: mæg — thin
• Louisiana Creole: mèg — thin
• Macedonian: мршав (mršav) — thin
• Māori: pakarea — thin
• Māori: hīroki — thin
• Māori: hīoi — thin
• Māori: whīrokiroki — thin
• Māori: tūpuhi — thin
• Māori: tūai — thin
• Māori: tūpuhipuhi — thin
• Māori: whīroki — thin
• Māori: kōhoi — thin
• Norwegian Bokmål: mager — thin
• Norwegian Bokmål: skinnmager — thin
• Occitan: magre — thin
• Occitan: magrostin — thin
• Old English: mæġer — thin
• Persian: لاغر (lâġar) — thin
• Plautdietsch: denn — thin
• Plautdietsch: hollrigjich — thin
• Polish: chudy — thin
• Portuguese: magro — thin
• Quechua: raphi — thin
• Romanian: slab — thin
• Russian: худо́й (xudój) — thin
• Russian: то́щий (tóščij) — thin
• Serbo-Croatian: мршав — thin
• Serbo-Croatian: mršav — thin
• Slovak: chudý — thin
• Slovene: suh — thin
• Slovene: shujšan — thin
• Spanish: delgado — thin
• Spanish: flaco — thin
• Spanish: enlapado — thin
• Swedish: mager — thin
• Tày: ảy — thin
• Thai: ผอม (pɔ̌ɔm) — thin
• Ottoman Turkish: ضعیف (zaʼif) — thin
• Ottoman Turkish: نازك (nâzik) — thin
• Ukrainian: худи́й (xudýj) — thin
• Urdu: پتلا (patlā) — thin
• Vietnamese: gầy — thin
• Vietnamese: ốm — thin
• Vietnamese: ròm — thin
• Vietnamese: còm — thin
• Yiddish: מאָגער (moger) — thin
• Finnish: laiha — A skinny person
• French: maigre — A skinny person
• Hungarian: sovány — A skinny person
• Italian: magro — A skinny person
• Italian: nudo — A skinny person
• Latin: macer — A skinny person
• Spanish: flaco — A skinny person
• Italian: particolari — the details or facts
• Italian: dettagli — the details or facts