merely

English

From mere +‎ -ly.

merely (not comparable)

(obsolete) Wholly, entirely. [16th-20th c.]
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
  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.
(focus) Without any other reason etc.; only, just, and nothing more. [from 16th c.]

only, just, and nothing more

Arabic: بِالْكَاد‎‎ (bi-l-kād)
Belarusian: то́лькі (tólʹki), про́ста (prósta)
Catalan: merament, simplement
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)
Hungarian: csak (hu), csupán (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)

Navajo: tʼóó
Nyunga: arda
Polish: tylko (pl)
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: ^{(please verify)} meramente, ^{(please verify)} sólo (es), ^{(please verify)} solamente (es), ^{(please verify)} uno y nada más
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
ǃXóõ: ǁʻáa

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