Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable)Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.

    тьмаtʹma, темнота́temnotá, мракmrak

    морокmorok, темряваtemrjava, пітьмаpitʹma

More definitions
  • an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance

Translations

3 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment:
Русский
By meaning 1
darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment:

Origin

From Middle English mirke, merke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“darkness, gloom”) and Ol

From Middle English mirke, merke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“darkness, gloom”) and Old Norse myrkr (“darkness, gloom”), both from Proto-Germanic *merkwą, *mirkwiz (“darkness”), Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”).

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Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

See also

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