цемра

Belarusian

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це́мра • (cjémra) f inan (genitive це́мры, nominative plural це́мры, genitive plural цемр)

darkness (lack of light)
Цемра апанавала неба, як толькі зайшло сонца. ― Cjemra apanavala njeba, jak tólʹki zajšló sónca. ― Darkness took over the sky as soon as the sun went down.
(figuratively) cultural backwardness, ignorance
Ваша цемра нікуды не прывядзе. ― Vaša cjemra nikudy nje pryvjadzje. ― Your ignorance will get you nowhere.
(figuratively) darkness (the personification of evil)
Ён чалавек цемры. ― Jon čalavjek cjemry. ― He is a man of darkness.

Declension of це́мра (inan hard fem-form accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	це́мра cjémra	це́мры cjémry
genitive	це́мры cjémry	цемр cjemr
dative	це́мры cjémry	це́мрам cjémram
accusative	це́мру cjémru	це́мры cjémry
instrumental	це́мрай, це́мраю cjémraj, cjémraju	це́мрамі cjémrami
locative	це́мры cjémry	це́мрах cjémrax
count form	—	це́мры¹ cjémry¹

¹Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.

“цемра”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
“цемра” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org