зреть

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  • IPA(key): [zrʲetʲ]
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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zьrěti (to ripen).

Verb

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зреть (zretʹimpf (perfective созре́ть)

  1. to ripen, to mature
    • c. 1920, Сергей Буданцев, Мятеж
      в голове командующего зреют благие мысли:
      good thoughts are ripening in the commander's head
    • 1897, А. К. Гермониус, В Ясной Поляне. У Льва Толстого
      здесь в тени чудные лип и берез создавались и зрели чудные образы и художественные картины:
      here in the shadow of lovely lindens and birches wondrous images and artistic paintings were created and ripened
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Etymology 2

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Inherited from Old East Slavic зьрѣти (zĭrěti), from Proto-Slavic *zьrěti (to see, to look at). Cognate to Lithuanian žiūrėti.

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зреть (zretʹimpf (perfective узре́ть)

  1. (archaic) to watch, to look at
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