молиться

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Russian

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic молитисꙗ (molitisja), from Proto-Slavic *modliti sę (to pray).

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Verb

моли́ться (molítʹsjaimpf (perfective помоли́ться)

  1. to pray (to petition a higher being)

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References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “молиться”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “молиться”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 539

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Ukrainian

Pronunciation

Verb

мо́литься (mólytʹsja)

  1. third-person singular present imperfective of моли́тися (molýtysja)