My question comes from the proverb: "Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute, sagen alle faulen Leute."
One implication is that lazy people don't want to do anything at ANY time.
Another is that even hardworking person might say, "Morgen, morgen, nur hicht heute," regarding a particular, unpleasant task, which would be procrastination. Or is there one word for "lazy" and another for "procrastination?"
"faul" is pretty much a 100% translation of lazy. It does not have a separate procrastinatory meaning.
The proverb refers to lazy peoples' habit of promising to do something "tomorrow" even though in the end, they never do it. Even though the same words might be used by a very busy person too, faul relates to laziness only.
Note that faul has two possible meanings:
Apart from lazy another meaning of "faul" is translated by "foul" for rotten organic material.
That would also be the origin of "faul" when used for people - "Faule Leute" wait so long for their work to be done until they are rotten.
