занурыцца

• zanurycca — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Inherited from Old Ruthenian зануритисѧ (zanuritisja). Compare Polish zanurzyć się and Ukrainian занури́тися (zanurýtysja).

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зануры́цца • (zanurýcca) pf (imperfective занура́цца)

1. to dip, to dive, to immerse oneself, to plunge, to sink, to submerge oneself
   • 1909 , Францішак Умястоўскі, “Малады каралевіч”, in Наша Ніва, number 5, translation of The Young King by Oscar Wilde, page 72:

     Іон занурыўся астатні раз. Доўга быў пад вадою, ажно выплыў. На гэты раз дастаў ён пэрлу, якой не было ешчэ на сьвеце.

     Ión zanuryŭsja astatni raz. Dóŭha byŭ pad vadóju, ažnó vyplyŭ. Na hety raz dastaŭ jon perlu, jakój nje byló ješče na sʹvjecje.

     He submerged for the last time, spending a long while underwater before resurfacing, exhausted. This time, the pearl he brought with him was unlike any other in the world.

2. (figuratively) to become absorbed, to immerse oneself, to plunge

• Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1991), “зануритися”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы (in Belarusian), numbers 11 (заменивати – зашкодити), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, →ISBN, page 51
• “занурыцца”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
• “занурыцца” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org