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English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From mere -ly
Pronunciation [ edit ] merely (not comparable )
( focus ) Without any other reason etc.; only , just , and nothing more . [from 16th c.] ( obsolete ) Wholly , entirely . [16th-20th c.]
1644 , John Milton, Areopagitica It is not forgot, since the acute and distinct Arminius was perverted meerly by the perusing of a namelesse discourse writt'n at Delf , which at first he took in hand to confute.
Synonyms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
only, just, and nothing more
Arabic: بِالْكَاد ( bi-l-kād )
Belarusian: то́лькі ( tólʹki ) , про́ста ( prósta )
Catalan: merament (ca) , simplement (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 只是 (zh) ( zhǐshì ) , 只不過 (zh) , 只不过 (zh) ( zhǐbuguò ) , 僅僅 (zh) , 仅仅 (zh) ( jǐnjǐn )
Czech: pouze (cs)
Dutch: alleen (nl) , louter (nl)
Finnish: vain (fi) , ainoastaan (fi) , pelkästään (fi)
French: simplement (fr) , uniquement (fr) , seulement (fr)
German: bloß (de) , lediglich (de) , nur (de) , schier (de)
Greek:
Ancient: μόνον ( mónon )
Hebrew: רק (he) ( rak )
Hungarian: csak (hu) , csupán (hu) , pusztán mindössze (hu) , egyedül (hu)
Italian: soltanto (it) , solamente (it) , meramente (it) , semplicemente (it)
Japanese: 単に ( たんに, tanni ) , ばかり (ja) ( bakari ) , ただ (ja) ( tada )
Khmer: គ្រាន់តែ (km) ( kroan tae )
Korean: 한낱 (ko) ( hannat ) , 그저 (ko) ( geujeo ) , 단지 (ko) ( danji )
Latin: sōlum (la) , modo (la)
Malagasy: fotsiny (mg)
Navajo: tʼóó
Nyunga: arda
Ojibwe: eta
Plautdietsch: blooss
Polish: tylko (pl) , jedynie (pl) , jeno (pl) ( outdated ) , ino (pl) ( dialectal )
Portuguese: meramente (pt) , somente (pt)
Romanian: doar (ro) , abia (ro)
Russian: то́лько (ru) ( tólʹko ) , про́сто (ru) ( prósto ) , лишь (ru) ( lišʹ ) , всего́-на́всего (ru) ( vsevó-návsevo )
Serbo-Croatian: prosto (sh) , jedino (sh)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: jano
Spanish: meramente (es) , puramente (es) , solamente (es) , sólo (es)
Turkish: sadece (tr) , yalnızca (tr)
Ukrainian: лише́ ( lyšé ) , ті́льки (uk) ( tílʹky ) , про́сто ( prósto )
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
Walloon: djusse (wa) , fok (wa) , seulmint (wa)
ǃXóõ: ǁʻáa
Anagrams [ edit ] Middle English [ edit ] merely
Alternative form of merily
