nomás
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From no + más, literally “no more, no longer”. Compare Catalan només.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]nomás
- (Latin America, Philippines) only, just
- 1993, “Pacas de a kilo”, performed by Los Tigres del Norte:
- Me gusta andar por la sierra, me crié entre los matorrales / Ahí aprendí a hacer las cuentas nomás contando costales
- I like to walk in the mountains, I grew up in the bushes / That's where I learned to do the math just by counting sacks.
Conjunction
[edit]nomás
- (Latin America) as soon as
- Synonyms: en cuanto, tan pronto como, apenas, ni bien, nada más
Further reading
[edit]- “nomás”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025