безгласный

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Russian

Etymology

без- (bez-) +‎ глас (glas) +‎ -ный (-nyj)

Pronunciation

Adjective

безгла́сный (bezglásnyj)

  1. Speechless, mute, without a voice.
    Молитва Церкви так сильна, что, если бы мы были безгла́снее камней, она сделала бы наш язык легче пера.
    Molitva Cerkvi tak silʹna, što, jesli by my byli bezglásneje kamnej, ona sdelala by naš jazyk lexče pera.
    So strong is the Church’s prayer, that, were we mute stones, she would make our tongues swift like feathers.
  2. Too timid, not expressing one’s opinion.

Declension

References

  1. ^ Tikhonov, A. N. (1996) Morphological-Orthographic Dictionary, Мoscow, →ISBN, page 701,
  2. ^ Толковый словарь Ожегова, s.v. «безгла́сный»
  3. ^ Collected works of John Chrysostom, p. 734.
  4. ^ Толковый словарь Ожегова, s.v. «безгла́сный»