From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], [enm], [enm], from [en], equivalent to [en]. Compare [da],
[no].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adverb
[en-adv]
1. [en] By a small margin..
2. * [part=VIII]
3. * 1925 , Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), _The Phantom of the Opera_ , silent movie
4. *: ‘ < !--sic-->It is BARELY possible you may hear of a ghost, a Phantom of the Opera!’
5. * [en]
6. [en] Almost not at all.
7. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=October 23, 2011
|author=Phil McNulty |title=Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City |work=BBC Sport
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15325536.stm |page= |passage=In
contrast to what was to come, City were BARELY allowed any time to settle on
the ball in the opening exchanges, with [Ashley Young] prominent and drawing
heavy fouls from [Micah Richards] and [James Milner].}}
1. [en] Recently , just now .
2. [en] Merely .
3. * [en]
4. [en] Openly , clearly , plainly .
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. * [en]
8. * [en]
9. * [en]
**** Usage notes
It is grammatically a negative word. It therefore collocates with [en] rather
than [en].
- Compare
[en]
with
[en]
**** Synonyms
- [degree] [en] , [en]
- [barely, almost not or not quite] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
**** Translations
[by a small margin]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [archaic] [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek:
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Ido: [io]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Limburgish: [li] , [li] , [li]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Northern Sami: [se]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Ojibwe: [oj]
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sardinian:
- Sassarese: [sdc]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [disused] , [es] [disused] , [es] [disused] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [rare]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[almost not at all]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: a [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Northern Sami: [se]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Old English: [ang]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [Colombia] , [es] [disused] , [es] [disused] , [es] [disused] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[merely]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]