From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology
As a noun, from [en], from [en], from [en]. As a verb, from [en], from [en],
from [en], from [en], a verbal derivative of [gem-pro], from [en].
The adjective originated as a shortening of Middle and Early Modern English
[enm] [enm], literally “good purchase” (as in “that was good cheap”, i.e.
“that was [a] good purchase”). Compare [nl], [fr].[1]
[2] Cognate with [sco], [sco], [frr], [fy], [nl], [nl], [nds], [de], [de],
[sv], [sv], [nn], [is], [is]; also borrowed as [fi], [ru], [cu], [bg], [sh],
[cs], [pl]. [col-bottom]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [chēp] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- (in dialects with _meet-meat merger_ ) [en]
*** Adjective
[er]
1. [en] Low or reduced in price .
2. * {{ RQ:Locke Value
|passage=Where there are many sellers and few purchases, land will be CHEAP.}}
1. * [chapter=3]
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2000 | author=George Abe | title=Residential Broadband | publisher=Cisco Systems | isbn=1578701775
|passage=Datacasting bypasses the wired, terrestrial Internet and is a CHEAPER
way to distribute software than pressing and mailing CDs.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2008 | author=Amy Wechsler | title=The Mind-Beauty Connection | page=31
|passage=The CHEAPEST antiager around: a good moisturizer.}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-07-20 | volume=408 | issue=8845 | magazine=w:The Economist
|title=Out of the gloom (see
http://www.economist.com/news/http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21582043-villagers-enjoy-sunlight-after-dark-out-gloom)
|passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other
heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as CHEAP as the grid. For
all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long
overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in
July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of
light in the villages.}}
1. * [en]
2. [en] Of poor quality .
3.. [en] Of little worth .
4. * [passage=You grow CHEAP in every subject's eye.]
5. [en] [en] Underhanded or unfair .
6. [en] Stingy ; mean ; excessively frugal .
7. [en] [en] Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivative s) a theoretical value.
8. [en] [en] Taking little of system time or resources.
**** Usage notes
- Because _cheap_ is [en] ambiguous, it is not always clear whether the intended meaning is _inexpensive_ , _poorly made_ , or both; apt word choice, with terms such as [en] or [en] , can clarify.
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Descendants
- [yue]
- [io]
- [eo]
- [ja]
- [ml]
- [mt]
- [nb]
- [nn]
- [pt]
- [sn]
- [ny]
- [tl]
- [xh]
**** Translations
[low and/or reduced in price]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amharic: [am] , [am]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba] , [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] [colloquial]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg] [low] ; [bg] [reduced]
- Burmese: [my] , [my] , [my]
- Carpathian Rusyn: [rue]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Chamicuro: [ccc]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Chichewa: [ny]
- Chinese:
- Chuvash: [cv]
- Cornish: [kw]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] [low] ; [gl] [reduced]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Gujarati: [gu] , [gu]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Ilocano: [ilo]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Ingush: [inh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Isan: [tts]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [extremely cheap] [ja]
- Jeju: [jje]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea] , [kea]
- Karakhanid: [xqa]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Khün: [kkh]
- Korean: [ko] [predicative] , [ko] [attributive]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Lü: [khb]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk] [low] ; [mk] , [mk] , [mk] [reduced]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manx: [gv]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Nepali: [ne] , [ne]
- Norman: [Guernsey] [nrf] , [Jersey] [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old East Slavic: [orv]
- Old English: [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Pannonian Rusyn: [rsk]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] [low] ; [pt] [reduced]
- Rarotongan: [rar]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [Rumantsch Grischun] [rm] , [Sursilvan] [rm] , [Sutsilvan] [rm] , [Surmiran] [rm] , [Puter] [rm] , [Vallader] [rm]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa] , [sa]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shan: [shn] , [shn]
- Shona: [sn]
- Sinhalese: [si] , [si]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Somali: [so]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] [low] ; [sv] [reduced]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tahitian: [ty]
- Tai Dam: [blt]
- Tai Nüa: [tdd]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Tausug: [tsg]
- Telugu: [te] [low] ; [te] [reduced]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Waray-Waray: [war]
- Welsh: [cy]
- White Hmong: [mww]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Yoruba: [yo] , [yo] , [yo]
- Zazaki: [zza] , [zza] , [zza] , [zza] [low] ; [zza] [reduced]
- Zhuang: [za] , [za]
[trans-bottom]
[of poor quality]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Basque: [eu]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [colloquial] [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kurdish:
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Old English: [ang]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [rare] , [es] [obsolescent] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Telugu: [te]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[of little worth]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Kurdish:
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Old English: [ang]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: [sl]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[slang: underhand or unfair in game]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Polish: [pl]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[frugal, stingy]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] [Quebec]
- German: [de]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[finance: trading at a low price level]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Ancient Greek: [grc]
- Breton: [br]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Northern Sotho: [nso]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
- Tswana: [tn] , [tn] < !-- was " ga e ture " - assumed sum-of-parts; if an idiom, remove the wikilinks to the individual words. see User:Kephir/gadgets/xte#Translation_fixing -->
- Turkish: [tr]
- Xhosa: [xh]
- Yoruba: [yo] , [yo]
[trans-bottom]
**** See also
- Appendix:Fighting Game Terms
*** Noun
[~]
1. [en] Trade ; traffic ; chaffer ; chaffering .
2. [en] A market ; marketplace .
3. [en] Price .
4. [en] A low price; a bargain .
5. * [III]
6. [en] Cheapness ; lowness of price; abundance of supply.
**** See also
- on the cheap
*** Verb
[en-verb] [en]
1. [en] To trade ; traffic ; bargain ; chaffer ; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
2. [en] To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
3. [en] To buy ; purchase .
4. [en] To sell .
**** Usage notes
- The use of [en] as a verb has been superseded by [en] .
**** Derived terms
[en]
*** Adverb
[en-adv]
1. Cheaply .
2. * MARCH 24 1658 , [John Milton] , _letter to Emeric Bigot_
3. *: I need not request you to purchase them as CHEAP as possible
*** References
References:
[1]. [entry=cheap]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Chinese
*** Etymology
From [yue].
*** Pronunciation
{{zh-pron |c=cip1 |cat=a }}
*** Adjective
[zh]
1. [zh] stingy ; mean ; excessively frugal
2. [zh] [en] ; low - price d; bearing poor quality
*** References
- [R:yue:ELHKC]
** Irish
*** Pronunciation
- [ga]
*** Noun
[ga]
1. [ceap]
*** Verb
[ga]
1. [ga]