seldom

Etymology
From late, alteration of earlier , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at and.

Adverb

 * 1) Infrequently, rarely.

Usage notes

 * It is grammatically a negative word. It therefore collocates with ever rather than never. Compare he seldom ever plays tennis with he almost never plays tennis.
 * The form seldomly, derived from the (now archaic) adjectival use, exists, but has not gained widespread acceptance.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: نَادِرًا
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: raramente
 * Azerbaijani:, gec-gec
 * Basque: gutxitan
 * Belarusian: рэ́дка
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: talagsa
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 很少, 好少
 * Mandarin: 很少,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: malofte
 * Estonian: harva
 * Faroese: sjáldan
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: იშვიათად
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: σπανίως
 * Hebrew: לעיתים רחוקות
 * Hindi: कभी कभी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: annamh
 * Italian:, di rado
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan: malagad
 * Kazakh:, сирек
 * Khmer: មិនសូវ
 * Korean: 좀체로…않게, 드물게
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بەدەگمان
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ບໍ່ສູ້
 * Latin: rārē, rārenter, rārō
 * Latvian: reti
 * Lithuanian:, nedažnai
 * Macedonian: ретко
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: rari
 * Mongolian: хааяа нэг
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: sjeldan
 * Ojibwe: wiikaa
 * Persian:, به ندرت
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ainneamh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ретко, ријетко
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, rara vez
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bihira
 * Tajik: нудратан, кушод-кушод
 * Tatar: ,
 * Thai: ไม่บ่อย
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: рі́дко, зрі́дка
 * Urdu: کبھی کبھی
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: selediko, seledo
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: זעלטן

Adjective

 * 1)  Rare; infrequent.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Georgian:

Etymology 1
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Etymology 2
From.