1. quickly, hastily, soon — An adverb indicating rapidity or promptness of action. All ten occurrences share the same adverbial function with consistent cross-linguistic evidence: Spanish 'pronto/rapidamente,' Hindi 'jaldi,' Arabic 'sariʿan,' Korean 'sokhi/ppalli,' Swahili 'haraka/upesi.' The two original clusters are indistinguishable in meaning, both carrying the sense of speed or urgency. No semantic distinction exists between the groups—both translate uniformly as 'quickly' across all target languages. Covers contexts ranging from commands to act swiftly to descriptions of events happening without delay. 10×
AR["سَريعاً","سَريعًا","سَرِيعًا"]·ben["তাড়াতাড়ি","দ্রুত","দ্রুত,","শীঘ্র,","শীঘ্রই"]·DE["schnell","ταχέως"]·EN["hastily","quickly"]·FR["rapidement","vite"]·heb["בִּמְהֵרָה","מְהֵרָה","מַהֵר"]·HI["जलदि","जलदि,","जल्दी","जल्दी-से"]·ID["cepat","dengan-cepat","segera"]·IT["prontamente","rapidamente","tacheos"]·jav["enggal","énggal","énggal,"]·KO["믨리","밨리","빨리","빨리,","속히"]·PT["apressadamente","depressa","em-breve","rapidamente"]·RU["быстро","скоро"]·ES["pronto","rápidamente"]·SW["haraka","hivi-karibuni","upesi"]·TR["hemen","çabucak","çabuk"]·urd["جلد","جلدی","جلدی-سے"]
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Included with: τᾰχύς [ῠ], εῖα, ύ: __I of motion, swift, fleet, opposed to βραδύς, __I.1 of persons and animals, either absolutely, Refs 8th c.BC+; or more fully, πόδας ταχύς Refs; ταχὺς ἔσκε θέειν Refs 8th c.BC+; θείειν τ. Refs 8th c.BC+; κύνες, ἔλαφος, πτώξ, ἵππος, Refs 8th c.BC+; τ. βαδιστής a quick walker, Refs 5th c.BC+; σφοδροὶ καὶ τ. Refs 5th c.BC+ __I.2 of things, τ. πόδες Refs 8th c.BC+;…