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English
Etymology
From Middle English slowly, slowli, slouli, slowliche, from Old English slāwlīċe (“slowly; sluggishly”), equivalent to slow + -ly. Compare Old Norse slæliga, sljóliga.
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Adverb
slowly (comparative slowlier or more slowly, superlative slowliest or most slowly)
- (manner) At a slow pace.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […] , down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
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at a slow pace
- Abkhaz: ашьшьыҳәа (aššəḥʷa)
- Albanian: ngadalë (sq), avash (sq)
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: بِبُطْء (bi-buṭʔ)
- Hijazi Arabic: بشويش (bišwēš)
- Armenian: դանդաղ (hy) (dandaġ), դանդաղորեն (hy) (dandaġoren), կամաց (hy) (kamacʻ)
- Assamese: লাহে লাহে (lahe lahe), লাহে ধীৰে (lahe dhire), ধীৰে ধীৰে (dhire dhire)
- Bashkir: яй (yay), аҡрын (aqrın), талғын (talğın)
- Basque: poliki
- Belarusian: паво́льна (pavólʹna)
- Breton: goustad (br)
- Bulgarian: ба́вно (bg) (bávno)
- Burmese: ဖြည်းဖြည်း (my) (hprany:hprany:)
- Catalan: lentament (ca), a poc a poc (ca)
- Chamicuro: peski'tujka
- Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: khoaⁿ-khoaⁿ
- Mandarin: 慢 (zh) (màn)
- Czech: pomalu (cs)
- Danish: langsomt
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: traag (nl), traagjes, langzaam (nl), langzaamaan (nl)
- Esperanto: malrapide
- Estonian: aeglaselt (et)
- Faroese: spakuliga
- Finnish: hitaasti (fi)
- French: lentement (fr)
- Galician: amodo, devagar, paseniño, engorde (gl), lentamente (gl)
- Gallurese: dittu
- Georgian: ნელა (nela)
- German: langsam (de)
- Greek: σιγά (el) (sigá), αργά (el) (argá)
- Ancient: βραδέως (bradéōs)
- Guaraní: mbegue (gn)
- Hebrew: לאט (he) (le'át)
- Hindi: आहिस्ता (hi) (āhistā), धीरे (hi) (dhīre), धीरे-धीरे (dhīre-dhīre)
- Hungarian: lassan (hu)
- Icelandic: hægt (is), rólega
- Ido: lente (io)
- Indonesian: pelan-pelan (id)
- Ingrian: veenost
- Italian: lentamente (it), piano (it) m, a rilento (it)
- Japanese: ゆっくり (ja) (yukkuri), そろそろ (ja) (sorosoro)
- Khmer: យឺតៗ (yɨɨt yɨɨt)
- Korean: 천천히 (ko) (cheoncheonhi)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: لەسەر خۆ (leser xo)
- Ladin: plan
- Ladino: avagar
- Lao: ຊ້າໆ (sā sā)
- Latin: lentē (la), tardē (la), segniter
- Latvian: lēnām, lēni, lēnu (rare)
- Macedonian: по́лека (póleka)
- Malay: perlahan (ms)
- Malayalam: പതുക്കെ (ml) (patukke)
- Middle English: esiliche
- Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
- Navajo: tąądee, tʼáá tłehee
- Norman: lentement
- Norwegian: sakte (no), langsomt (no)
- Odia: please add this translation if you can
- Old Assamese: লাসে লাসে (lase lase), ধীৰে ধীৰে (dhīre dhīre)
- Old English: late
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: آهسته (fa) (âheste)
- Polish: powoli (pl), wolno (pl), pomału (pl), nieśpiesznie (pl), nieprędko (pl), niemrawo, pomalutku (pl)
- Portuguese: devagar (pt), lentamente (pt), vagarosamente (pt)
- Romanian: încet (ro), lent (ro), domol (ro)
- Russian: ме́дленно (ru) (médlenno)
- Sanskrit: शनैस् (sa) (śanais)
- Sardinian:
- Campidanese: dicciu
- Logudorese: ditzu
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: споро, пола́ко, (figuratively) ла̏гано
- Roman: sporo (sh), poláko (sh), (figuratively) lȁgano (sh)
- Slovak: pomaly
- Slovene: počási (sl)
- Spanish: lentamente (es), despacio (es)
- Swedish: sakta (sv)
- Sylheti: ꠟꠣꠄ ꠟꠣꠄ (lae lae)
- Tamil: மெதுவா (ta) (metuvā)
- Telugu: నిదానంగా (te) (nidānaṅgā), మెల్లగా (te) (mellagā)
- Thai: ช้าๆ (cháa-cháa)
- Turkish: yavaş (tr), yavaşça (tr), yavaş yavaş (tr)
- Ukrainian: пові́льно (povílʹno), без поспіху (bez pospixu)
- Urdu: آہستہ (ur) (āhistā)
- Vietnamese: chậm (vi)
- Volapük: nevifiko
- Walloon: doûçmint (wa), belotmint (wa), londjinnmint (wa), loyminoymint (wa)
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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