precious

Etymology
From, borrowed from , from , from ; see.

Adjective

 * 1) Of high value or worth.
 * 2) Regarded with love or tenderness.
 * 3)  Treated with too much reverence.
 * 4)  Extremely protective or strict (about something).
 * 5)  ; damned.
 * 6)  Contrived to be cute or charming.
 * 7)  Thorough; utter.
 * a precious rascal
 * 1)  ; damned.
 * 2)  Contrived to be cute or charming.
 * 3)  Thorough; utter.
 * a precious rascal
 * 1)  ; damned.
 * 2)  Contrived to be cute or charming.
 * 3)  Thorough; utter.
 * a precious rascal
 * 1)  Thorough; utter.
 * a precious rascal
 * a precious rascal

Translations

 * Afrikaans: kosbaar
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: ثَمِين
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: preciosu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: кашто́ўны, дарагі́
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎦᎸᏉᏗ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish: dyrebar
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: kara,, valorega
 * Estonian: väärtuslik
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: precioso
 * Georgian: ძვირფასი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: makamae, hiwahiwa
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: क़ीमती,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: luachmhar, lómhar, maoineach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: асыл, қимас
 * Khmer: ដ៏មានតម្លៃ
 * Korean: 귀중한
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ມີຄ່າ
 * Latin: pretiōsus
 * Latvian: dārgs
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: скапоцен, скап
 * Malayalam: പിലയേറിയ
 * Maltese: prezzjuż
 * Maori: marihi, matahīapo, puiaki, puipuiaki, mōmōhanga
 * Marathi: मूल्यवान
 * Mongolian: үнэгэн
 * Nepali:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Occitan: precios
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: prìseil, luachmhor
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: драгоцен, драг
 * Roman: ,
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: vzácny, drahý
 * Slovene: dragocen
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:, қиматбаҳо
 * Tamil: விலையுர்ந்த,
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: มีค่า, มีประโยชน์
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: gymmatbaha
 * Tày: bắt
 * Ukrainian: дорогоці́нний, ,
 * Urdu: قیمتی
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: leef
 * Turkish: ,


 * German: ,
 * Greek:

Noun

 * 1) Someone (or something) who is loved; a darling.

Adverb

 * 1) Very;
 * There is precious little we can do.
 * precious few pictures of him exist

Usage notes
This adverb is chiefly used before and ; usage with other adjectives  is much more sporadic, and is in any case limited to the semantic field of “little, small, scarce, few”.