nomás
Spanish
Etymology
From no + más. Compare Catalan només.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /noˈmas/ [noˈmas]
- Rhymes: -as
- Syllabification: no‧más
Adverb
nomás
- (Latin America) only, just
- 1993, “Pacas de a kilo”, performed by Los Tigres del Norte:
- Me gusta andar por la sierra, me crié entre los matorrales / Ahí aprendí a hacer las cuentas nomás contando costales
- I like to walk in the mountains, I grew up in the bushes / That's where I learned to do the math just by counting sacks.
Further reading
- “nomás”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024