haply
Adverb
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003
Adverb
haply (literary, archaic)
- By accident or luck.
- 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- But as soon as her son espied her, bowl in hand, he thought that haply something untoward had befallen her, but he would not ask of aught until such time as she had set down the bowl, when she acquainted him with that which had occurred […]
- 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- Perhaps.
- 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- "O my lord the Sultan," said the other [the Wazir], "verily women be weakly of wits, and haply this goodwife cometh hither to complain before thee against her goodman or some of her people."
- 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- Russian: случа́йно
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003