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English
Etymology
From Middle English abeliche, abelyche, abilliche, abliche; equivalent to able + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adverb
ably (comparative more ably, superlative most ably)
- In an able manner; with great ability. [1]
- ably done, planned, said
Translations
with great ability
- Albanian: i afte
- Bulgarian: умело (bg) (umelo), ловко (bg) (lovko), сръчно (bg) (srǎčno), компетентно (bg) (kompetentno)
- Catalan: hàbilment (ca)
- Finnish: pontevasti (fi), taitavasti (fi), hyvin (fi)
- French: habilement (fr)
- German: fähig (de)
- Greek: ικανά (el) (ikaná), άξια (el) (áxia)
- Interlingua: habilemente
- Italian: abilmente (it)
- Lakota: waṡ'ágya
- Polish: umiejętnie (pl), zręcznie (pl)
- Portuguese: habilmente (pt)
- Russian: уме́ло (ru) (umélo), ло́вко (ru) (lóvko), иску́сно (ru) (iskúsno), компете́нтно (ru) (kompeténtno), квалифици́рованно (ru) (kvalificírovanno)
- Spanish: hábilmente (es)
- Swedish: skickligt (sv)
- Vietnamese: khéo léo (vi)
- Volapük: fägiko, fägo
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References
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “ably”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.
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