miserly

English

miser +‎ -ly, attested from the 1540s.

miserly (comparative more miserly, superlative most miserly)

Like a miser, very cautious with money.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stingy
- 2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Three”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 20:
  What could be more selfish, more miserly—this in specific is what gnaws at him—than dying childless, terminating the line, subtracting oneself from the great work of generation? Worse than miserly, in fact: unnatural.

stingy

Arabic: بَخِيل‎ (baḵīl)
Belarusian: скупы (skupy)
Bulgarian: стиснат (bg) (stisnat), скъпернически (bg) (skǎperničeski)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 吝嗇／吝啬 (zh) (lìnsè), 小氣／小气 (zh) (xiǎoqì), (informal) 摳門／抠门 (zh) (kōumén), 摳／抠 (zh) (kōu)
Czech: lakomý (cs) m
Danish: gnieragtig, gerrig, nærig (da)
Esperanto: avarula
Finnish: saita (fi), itara (fi), pihi (fi), nuuka (fi)
French: avare (fr), pingre (fr), chiche (fr), radin (fr)
Galician: mesquiño, avarento
German: geizig (de), knauserig (de), knausrig, gierig (de)
Greek:
Ancient: φειδωλός (pheidōlós)
Hindi: कंजूस (hi) (kañjūs)
Irish: ocrach
Japanese: けちな (ja) (kechi na), 吝嗇な (ja) (りんしょくな, rinshoku na)
Korean: (attributive) 인색한 (insaek-han), (predicative) 인색하다 (insaek-hada)
Low German:
German Low German: giezig, gnietschig, gnittschig, knickerig, neetsch, näätsch, nehrig, nährig, netig, nötig, pennschieterig
Old English: hnēaw
Persian: خسیس‎ (fa) (xasis)
Polish: skąpy (pl)
Portuguese: mesquinho (pt), pão-duro (pt)
Romanian: ciufút (ro)
Russian: скупо́й (ru) (skupój), ска́редный (ru) (skárednyj), жа́дный (ru) (žádnyj), прижи́мистый (ru) (prižímistyj)
Scots: near the bane
Serbo-Croatian: škrt (sh)
Spanish: mezquino (es), tacaño (es), avaro (es)
Urdu: کنجوس‎ (kañjūs)
Yiddish: קמצניש‎ (kamtsonish)