cheap

Etymology
From, /, , /, , from , , from , , from , , , from. See also. For sense evolution to "inexpensive," compare or French.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, ; also borrowed as 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation

 * (in dialects with meet-meat merger)
 * (in dialects with meet-meat merger)
 * (in dialects with meet-meat merger)
 * (in dialects with meet-meat merger)
 * (in dialects with meet-meat merger)

Noun

 * 1)  Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
 * 2)  A market; marketplace.
 * 3)  Price.
 * 4)  A low price; a bargain.
 * 5)  Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.
 * 1)  Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.

Adjective

 * 1) Low or reduced in price.
 * 2) Of poor quality.
 * 3) Of little worth.
 * 4)  Underhand or unfair.
 * the cheap trick of hiding deadly lava under pushable blocks
 * 1)  Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
 * 2)  Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
 * The ETF is trading cheap to NAV right now; we can arb this by buying the ETF and selling the underlying constituents.
 * 1)  Taking little of system time or resources.
 * 1)  Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
 * 2)  Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
 * The ETF is trading cheap to NAV right now; we can arb this by buying the ETF and selling the underlying constituents.
 * 1)  Taking little of system time or resources.
 * 1)  Taking little of system time or resources.

Usage notes

 * Because cheap is polysemically ambiguous, it is not always clear whether the intended meaning is inexpensive, poorly made, or both; apt word choice, with terms such as or, can clarify.

Synonyms

 * ,, , poorly made
 * ,, , poorly made

Antonyms

 * , expensive, high-priced, pricey

Translations

 * Afrikaans: goedkoop
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ርካሽ, እርካሽ
 * Arabic: رَخِيص
 * Egyptian Arabic: رخيص
 * Moroccan Arabic: رْخيص
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: baratu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: осһоҙ, арзан
 * Basque: merke
 * Belarusian: та́нны, дзяшо́вы
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ;
 * Burmese:, ,
 * Carpathian Rusyn: тунї
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: barato
 * Chamicuro: warato
 * Chechen: дораха
 * Chichewa: tchipa
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 平
 * Dungan: пянйи, җян
 * Hakka: 便宜
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Wu: 便宜, 𠼢
 * Chuvash: йӳнӗ
 * Cornish: a brys ysel
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, onduur, , , in aanbieding
 * Esperanto: malmultekosta, ĉipa
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: bíligur
 * Finnish:
 * French:, pas cher, peu cher,
 * Galician:, barateiro ; rebaixado
 * Georgian: იაფფასიანი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: εὐτελής, εὔωνος, εὐθηνός
 * Hebrew:, זולה
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: barato
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: hootava
 * Ingush: доарах
 * Irish: saor
 * Isan:
 * Italian:, a buon mercato, poco costoso
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kabuverdianu: baratu, baróte
 * Karakhanid: اُجُزْ
 * Kazakh: арзан
 * Khmer:
 * Khün: ᨳᩪᨠ
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ھەرزان
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຖືກ
 * Latin: vīlis
 * Latvian: lēts
 * Lithuanian: pigus, pigi
 * Lü: ᦏᦳᧅᧈ
 * Luxembourgish: bëlleg
 * Macedonian: евтин ; намален, снижен, поевтинет
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: rħis
 * Manx: neuphriosoil
 * Maori: utu ngāwari
 * Marathi: स्वस्त
 * Mongolian: хямд төсөр
 * Nepali: सस्तो,
 * Norman: bouan marchi,  bouôn marchi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: billeg, billig
 * Occitan:
 * Old East Slavic: дешевъ
 * Old English: undīere
 * Ottoman Turkish: اوجوز
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ;
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: bunmartgà,  bienmarcau,  bùnmartgieu,  bunmartgea,  bunmarcho,  bunmarchà
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: अल्पमूल्य, न्यूनमूल्य
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: је̏фтин
 * Roman:
 * Shan: ,
 * Shona: chipa
 * Sinhalese:, ලාභ
 * Slovak: lacný
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: tuni, pśigódny
 * Upper Sorbian: tuni
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ;
 * Tagalog: mura
 * Tai Dam: ꪖꪴꪀ
 * Tai Nüa: ᥙᥨᥰ
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: மலிவான
 * Tatar: арзан
 * Tausug: maluhay
 * Telugu: ; తగ్గింపు ధర
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཁེ་པོ
 * Tigrinya: ሕሱር
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:, ارزاں
 * Uyghur: ئەرزان
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Waray-Waray: barato
 * Welsh:
 * White Hmong:
 * Yiddish: ביליק
 * Zazaki: arzan,, , ercon ;
 * Zhuang: bienzngeiz, cienh


 * Armenian:
 * Basque: merke
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 渣, 鮓
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: tarvelig
 * Dutch:, laagwaardig,
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:, au rabais
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: εὐτελής
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , チープ
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: توڕەھات
 * Latin: vīlis
 * Latvian: lēts
 * Macedonian: евтин, неквалите́тен
 * Old English: undīere
 * Pashto:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: јефтин, неквалитетан
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovene: cenen
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: தரம் குறைந்த
 * Telugu: తక్కువ రకం
 * Turkish:, ,


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بێقیمەت
 * Latin: vīlis
 * Latvian: lēts
 * Macedonian: евтин
 * Old English: undīere
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: јефтин
 * Roman:
 * Slovene: cenen
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: స్వల్ప లాభం
 * Turkish: ,
 * Zazaki:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Macedonian: евтин
 * Polish:
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Turkish:
 * Zazaki: çıkos


 * Finnish:


 * Ancient Greek:
 * Breton:
 * Esperanto:
 * Northern Sotho:
 * Romanian:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Tswana: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Xhosa:
 * Yoruba: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
 * 2)  To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
 * 3)  To buy; purchase.
 * 4)  To sell.

Usage notes
Use of as a verb has been superseded by.

Adverb

 * 1) Cheaply.
 * I bought this cheap in a junk shop.
 * The pet shop has some budgerigars going cheap.
 * 1) * March 24 1658,, letter to Emeric Bigot
 * I need not request you to purchase them as cheap as possible

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  stingy; mean; excessively frugal
 * 2)  ; low-priced; bearing poor quality