slim

Etymology
Borrowing from or, from , from , from , from. The sense development would have been "slanting, cunning" (Dutch) > "insignificant, slight" and then "thin, graceful" in English, a shift that Liberman calls an "incredible amelioration" of word meaning.

The pejorative sense found in Low German and Dutch is also found preserved in the archaic English noun, also comparable to the South African use of the adjective as "crafty, sly."

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Slender, thin.
 * 2)  Slender in an attractive way.
 * 3)  Designed to make the wearer appear slim.
 * 4)  Long and narrow.
 * 5)  Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.
 * 6)  Very small, tiny.
 * 7)  Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
 * 8)  Sly, crafty.
 * 1)  Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
 * 2)  Sly, crafty.
 * 1)  Sly, crafty.
 * 1)  Sly, crafty.

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:slender
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:tiny
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:low-quality
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:wily
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:tiny
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:low-quality
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:wily

Translations

 * Arabic: نَحِيل, نَحِيف, أَهْيَف
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: ябыҡ
 * Belarusian: худы́, стро́йны, стро́мкі
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎤᎴᏐᏓ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Aeolic: βράδινος
 * Ancient: ῥαδινός
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: caol, tanaí, seang
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin: gracilis
 * Latvian: slaids, tievs, smuidrs
 * Macedonian: слаб, тенок, виток
 * Neapolitan: magro
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: slank,
 * Plautdietsch: schlank, denn
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: caol, seang
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ви̏так, мр̏шав
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: štíhly
 * Slovene: vitek
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian: худи́й, струнки́й, стрімки́й
 * Urdu: پتلا
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * Zazaki: ,

Noun

 * 1) A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
 * 2)  A potato farl.
 * 3)  AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
 * 4)  Cocaine.
 * 1)  Cocaine.
 * 1)  Cocaine.

Verb

 * 1)  To lose weight in order to achieve slimness.
 * 2)  To make slimmer; to reduce in size.

Derived terms

 * slim down

Translations

 * Dutch:, , aan de lijn doen, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: слабее
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Telugu: సన్నబడు

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) slime
 * 2) mucus

Etymology
From, , , , from , from , compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The semantic development in Dutch was “physically crooked” → “morally crooked” → “sly, artful” → “clever, intelligent”.

Adjective

 * 1) intelligent, bright
 * 2) clever, smart
 * 3)  wrong, incorrect, bad

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) mucus, phlegm
 * 2) slime

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) mucus, phlegm
 * 2) slime

Etymology
From, from

Noun

 * 1) slime

Adjective

 * 1) bad
 * 2) dire
 * 3) difficult