светиться

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Russian

Etymology

свети́ть (svetítʹ) +‎ -ся (-sja)

Pronunciation

Verb

свети́ться (svetítʹsjaimpf

  1. to shine, to glow
    • 1975, Братья Стругацкие [Arkady and Boris Strugatsky], “Книга вторая. Часть четвёртая. Господин советник”, in Град обреченный; English translation from Andrew Bromfield, transl., The Doomed City, Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2016:
      По ноча́м в про́пасти что́-то свети́лось сла́бым зеленова́тым све́том, бу́дто там, в бе́здне, что́-то ти́хо гни́ло из ве́ка в век.
      Po nočám v própasti štó-to svetílosʹ slábym zelenovátym svétom, búdto tam, v bézdne, štó-to tíxo gnílo iz véka v vek.
      At night something in the Abyss glowed with a weak, greenish light, as if down there in the depths something was slowly rotting, century by century.
  2. (figuratively) to attract (unwanted) attention
  3. passive of свети́ть (svetítʹ)

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