過ぎる: (auxiliary) too, too much; to exceed, to go beyond something

there are not many, there are few, there is little

to exceed; to surpass / to be too much; to be excessive

cooking

salt / saltiness / (by extension, colloquial) hardship, toil, trouble / (colloquial) a hoarse voice / (colloquial) Short for 塩屋 (shioya): a salter

Alternative spelling of 薄絹 (“sheer silk”)

a surname

merely; no more than

negative of 過ぎる (sugiru) [ichidan]

to cook, to prepare (food) / to deal with, to handle