shrewd

Mane (Îngilîzî)

  1. Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.
  2. Artful, tricky or cunning.
  3. (informal) streetwise, street-smart.
  4. Knowledgeable, intelligent, keen.
  5. Nigh accurate.
  6. Severe, intense, hard.
  7. Sharp, snithy, piercing.
  8. (archaic) Bad, evil, threatening.
  9. (obsolete) Portending, boding.
  10. (archaic) Noxious, scatheful, mischievous.
  11. (obsolete) Abusive, shrewish.
  12. (archaic) Scolding, satirical, sharp.

Têgeh

bernac

kone

xasûk

zîrek

qurnaz

şatir

cambaz

lêbker

fêlbaz

hîlebaz

mizewir

Pircarînî

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Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin
/ʃɹuːd/
Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

In summary

From Middle English schrewed (“depraved; wicked”, literally “accursed”), from schrewen (“to curse; beshrew”), from schrewe, schrowe, screwe (“evil or wicked person/thing”), from Old English sċrēawa (“wicked person”, literally “biter”). Equivalent to shrew + -ed. More at shrew. The sense of "cunning" developed in early 16ᵗʰ c., gradually gaining a positive connotation by 17ᵗʰ c.

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