gently

English

Etymology

gentle +‎ -ly, with *-lely simplified to -ly by haplology.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɛntli/
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Hyphenation: gen‧tly

Adverb

gently (comparative gentlier or more gently, superlative gentliest or most gently)

in a gentle manner

Antonyms

roughly

Translations

in a gentle manner

Armenian: կամաց (hy) (kamacʿ)
Bulgarian: нежно (bg) (nežno), внимателно (bg) (vnimatelno)
Catalan: suaument
Dutch: zachtjes (nl), voorzichtig (nl), zachtaardig (nl)
Finnish: hellävaraisesti, lempeästi (fi), vienosti (fi), hellävaroen
Galician: suavemente (gl)
Hungarian: finoman (hu)
Italian: soavemente, dolcemente (it), blandamente (it), delicatamente (it), gentilmente (it), sordamente
Japanese: そっと (sotto)
Korean: 부드럽게 (budeureopge)
Latin: leniter, lene (la)
Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀈𑀲𑀻𑀲𑀺 (īsīsi)
Malay: perlahan

Persian: یواش‎‎ (fa) (yavâš)
Polish: łagodnie (pl), delikatnie (pl)
Portuguese: gentilmente
Russian: не́жно (ru) (néžno)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: нежно, њежно

Roman: nežno, nježno (sh)
Spanish: mansamente (es), suave (es)
Tatar: әкрен (tt) (äqren)
Telugu: నింపాదిగా (nimpādigā)
Thai: เบา (th) (bao)
Ukrainian: ні́жно (nížno), м'я́ко (mʺjáko), обере́жно (oberéžno)

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