almost; nearly
eş: beinah
köken: From Middle High German bīnāhe, bīnāch. Analysable as bei (“by, near”) + nah (“near, close”). Compare Dutch bijna.
almost
eş: por poco
köken: Semi-learned borrowing from Latin quasi. Doublet of cuasi. The two were originally in a complementary distribution that depended on stress.
aile: casi casi, de casi no se muere nadie, los casis no cuentan
🔊 Casi casi que me parece que ocurriese ayer mismo.
practically (all senses) · almost
eş: in effetti, in concreto, alla prova dei fatti, in sostanza, essenzialmente, concretamente
köken: From pratico + -mente.
practically, in a practical manner · practically, virtually
eş: эмпирически, фактически, по существу, на практике, по сути дела
almost
🔊 Mən az qala yıxılmışdım.
almost, nearly
köken: Borrowed from Arabic قَرِيب (qarīb).
almost · soon
eş: bijkans, haast, nagenoeg, schier, vrijwel
köken: From Middle Dutch bina. Equivalent to a univerbation of bij + na. Compare German beinahe.
practically (in practice; in effect) · practically (almost entirely) · practically (in a practical manner)
köken: From prático + -mente.
nearly, almost, near miss, close but no cigar, hair's breadth, just (used to indicate something that almost or nearly happened)
eş: στο τσακ
köken: παρά (pará, “except, despite”) + λίγο (lígo, “a little”)
🔊 Παραλίγο να τρακάρουμε.
完全にではないが、それに近い程度に。
eş: おおかた, ほぼ, ほぼほぼ
almost, nearly
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 거ᅀᅴ (Yale: kezuy).
🔊 손님은 거의가 오셨습니다.
🔊 내 동생은 퇴근을 하면 남은 시간의 거의를 공부를 하는 데 쓰더라.
almost, nearly, practically
köken: Literally, “without little”.
🔊 bez mała dwadzieścia lat
🔊 w każdym bez mała mieszkaniu
nearly, about
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian تقریباً (taqrīban), from Arabic تَقْرِيبًا (taqrīban).
🔊 मैंने तक़रीबन तीन बजे लंच किया।
practically, virtually (almost but not quite)
köken: käytännöllisesti (“practically”) + katsoen (“seen”)
🔊 Työni on käytännöllisesti katsoen valmis,
🔊 Hän oli käytännöllisesti katsoen kouluttamaton, ja osasi hädin tuskin lukea ja kirjoittaa yksinkertaisia lauseita.
almost, nearly
eş: bezmála, téměř, takřka, víceméně, skorem
🔊 Já jsem též na moři skoro zemřel.
near, close, nearby · almost (very close to), nearly
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ad prope, composed of ad (“to, at”) + prope (“near”). Compare Aromanian aproapea.
in practice, realistically, empirically · practically, basically, by and large, for all practical purposes
zıt: elméletileg, elvileg, ténylegesen, konkrétan, szó szerint, szabályosan
köken: gyakorlati + -lag
almost, nearly · scarcely, hardly, barely
köken: Possibly from the same root as patior (“to suffer”); this may be Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-(i)- (“to hurt”) (this is supported by Pokorny), but its standard reconstruction as *peh₁-(i)- (or *peh₁y-) creates phonetic problems for the Latin. Neri (2007), following Vine, derives it Proto-Indo-European *p(e)-ai-ni- (“not entirely; from whom has been taken away; who takes away”), from *pe- (“away”) +…
aile: paenīnsula, paenultimus, paenumbra
definite singular of næste
almost (very close to)
köken: Inherited from Malay hampir, but inconclusive. * There is possibility that Malay hampir is a loanword from Dutch amper (“scarcely, barely”) as its high and almost universal usage in Flemish, in turn derived from Middle Dutch amper (“sour”), which had similar semantic development to German sehr (“very”) or Alemannic German rüüdig (“very”) and are cognates of Swedish amper and German Ampfer. *…
aile: berhampiran, hampir-hampir, hampiran, hampirkan, menghampiri, menghampirkan