slim

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Adj

1. Slender; thin.
2. (broadly) Slender; thin.
3. Slender; thin.
4. Slender; thin.
5. Very small, tiny.
6. (Northern-England, Scotland) Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
7. (South-Africa, obsolete) Sly, crafty.

Noun

1. A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
2. (Ireland, regional) A potato farl.
3. (Africa, East, uncountable) AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
4. (slang, uncountable) Cocaine.

Verb

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

Noun

Alternative form of sling (“type of alcoholic mixed drink”)

Konzepte

schlank

abnehmen

dünn

abspecken

schmal

schlank werden

eng

mager

grazil

hübsch

klein

ohne zu zögern

schick

schlacksig

schlaksig

Schlankheit

Zartheit

Zierlichkeit

abkommen

abschmelzen

wohlproportioniert

abmagern

schmächtig <schlacksig>

an Gewicht verlieren

dürr

elegant

Feinheit

fließend

gering

geschmeidig

Synonyme

slender

thin

lean

skinny

svelte

slight

delicate

slenderize

lose weight

lissome

slim down

small

fine

reduce

scrawny

narrow

dainty

frail

emaciated

lithe

willowy

melt off

subtle

graceful

nice

gaunt

lanky

tall

become thin

spare

sly

lank

emaciate

sleek

rangy

dicky

fragile

forceless

detract

clean-limbed

flimsy

flagging

macerate

feeble

debilitated

bony

bad

👎

low-grade

little

faint

Übersetzungen

mince

snello

slank

dimagrire

delgado

maigrir

esbelto

λεπτός

rank

magro

prim

adelgazar

mincir

svelte

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/slɪm/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Verwandt mit Niederländisch: slim

Verwandt mit Mittelhochdeutsch: slimp

Verwandt mit Deutsch: schlimm

Verwandt mit Westfriesisch: slim

In summary

Borrowing from Low German or Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”), from Middle Dutch slim (“bad, crooked”), from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”). 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 slim (“worthless or lazy person”), also comparable to the South African use of the adjective as "crafty, sly."
Compare Dutch slim (“smart, clever, crafty”), Middle High German slimp (“slanting, awry”), German schlimm (“bad”), West Frisian slim (“bad, dire”).