mesquí

Borrowed from Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn, “poor”), from Classical Syriac ܡܶܣܟܸܐܢܳܐ / ܡܶܣܟܸܢܳܐ / ܡܶܣܟܸܝܢܳܐ (meskēnā, “miserable, wretched”), from Akkadian 𒈦𒆕𒂗 (muškēnum, “beggar, needy, indigent”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məsˈki]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [mesˈki]

mesquí (feminine mesquina, masculine plural mesquins, feminine plural mesquines)

1. (archaic, dialectal) misfortunate, miserable
2. mean, stingy
3. vile, despicable
4. paltry, wretched (of quantity or size)

• (stingy): gasiu
• (vile): roí
• (wretchedly small): esquifit

• mesquinejar
• mesquineria
• mesquinesa

• “mesquí”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007