alig-alig
التعريفات والمعاني
== Cebuano ==
=== Verb ===
alig-alig (Badlit spelling ᜀᜎᜒᜄ᜔ᜀᜎᜒᜄ᜔)
to do something which is not one’s ordinary duty, to take something on oneself.
to undertake a task which one is not up to doing
== Hungarian ==
=== Etymology ===
alig (“barely”) + alig (“barely”)
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [ˈɒliɡɒliɡ]
Hyphenation: alig-‧alig
Rhymes: -iɡ
=== Adverb ===
alig-alig
barely, hardly, scarcely (to a limited extent)
Alig-alig látok. ― I can barely see.
with difficulty
A két jelenséget alig-alig lehet megkülönböztetni. ― It's very hard to distinguish the two kinds of phenomena.
barely (to emphasize the smallness of the named quantity or measure)
Itt van mellettem, alig-alig egy méterre tőlem. ― It is right next to me, barely a meter from me.
=== Further reading ===
alig-alig in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
alig-alig in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).