зрак

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zorkъ.

• IPA^(key): [zrak]

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• Rhymes: -ak

зрак • (zrak) m (relational adjective зра́чен)

1. (poetic, usually in the singular) small ray, flicker, glimmer
2. (poetic, usually in the singular) faint or obscure light, twilight
3. (literary, uncountable) gaze, glance, look

   Synonyms: погле́д (pogléd), взор (vzor)

4. (dialectal) apparition, phantom

• здрак (zdrak), ждрак (ždrak) — dialectal
  • ⇒ здрач (zdrač, “dusk, twilight”) (i-stem)

• при́зрак (prízrak, “apparition”), призра́чен (prizráčen)
• зра́чен (zráčen)
  • взра́чен (vzráčen) (rare) ⇒ невзра́чен (nevzráčen, “unseemly”)
  • прозра́чен (prozráčen, “transparent”)

• “зрак”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “зрак”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov (1897) “зракъ, зра́ци”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 2, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 165
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “зрак”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 655
• “зракъ”, in Старобългарски речник [Dictionary of Old Bulgarian] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2025

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zorkъ.

• IPA^(key): [zrak]

зрак • (zrak) m (diminutive зракче)

1. a ray, beam
2. (regional) vision, sight, eyesight

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic зракъ (zrakŭ), from Proto-Slavic *zorkъ. Doublet of зо́рок (zórok), the inherited East Slavic form.

• IPA^(key): [zrak]

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зрак • (zrak) m inan (genitive зра́ка, nominative plural зра́ки, genitive plural зра́ков)

1. (obsolete) look, glance

• при́зрак (prízrak)
  • при́зрачный (prízračnyj)
• взра́чный (vzráčnyj)
  • невзра́чный (nevzráčnyj)
• прозра́чный (prozráčnyj)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “зрак”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zorkъ.

• IPA^(key): /zrâːk/

зра̑к m inan (Latin spelling zrȃk)

1. (uncountable, Bosnia, Croatia) air

   Synonym: (Bosnia, Serbia) ва̀здӯх

2. (countable, Serbia) a ray, beam

   Alternative form: (Bosnia, Croatia) зра̏ка

   Врх хриди црне трне задњи румени зрак. ― Atop the black cliff the last crimson ray disappears.

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• “зрак”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025