Mari-English Dictionary

леваш (-ем)

1. {intransitive} to melt

♢ лум лева {sentence} the snow is melting

♢ ӱй левен {sentence} the butter melted

♦ левен варнаш (-ем) {verb II} to melt together

♦ левен ушнаш (-ем) {verb II} to melt together

♦ тулеш леваш (-ем) {verb II} to melt in fire

2. to become warm

♢ коремыште вӱд левен {sentence} the water in the river became warm

3. {figuratively} to be moved, to be touched, to grow lenient, to mellow

♢ чонем поро шомак дене левыш {sentence} my heart was touched by the kind words

~ ASPECTUAL CONVERB CONSTRUCTIONS ~

// левен каяш (-ем) {verb II} {perfective} (see above)

♢ салмаште ӱй левен кайыш {sentence} the butter quickly melted in the pan

♢ шыште тул ӱмбалан левен кайыш {sentence} the wax quickly melted in the fire

--"PARENT"--> леве

	● Mari → English	○ Mari ← English	○ Mari ⇆ English
Search:	● Whole Words	○ All Matches	☐ Search Subentries
Stress, Palatalness:	○ Extra Characters (•, ')	● Bold/Italics	○ Do Not Annotate
Orthography:	● Cyrillic	○ UPA	○ IPA
Ordering:	● Alphabetical	○ Reverse
а б в г д е ё ж з и й к л м н ҥ о ӧ п р с т у ӱ ф х ц ч ш щ ъ ы ь э ю я

	www.mari-language.com:	ENGLISH \| МАРЛА \| ПО-РУССКИ
Main page » Dictionary


The Mari Web Project is primarily based at the Department of Finno-Ugric Studies at the University of Vienna. The Mari-English Dictionary was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P22786-G20.
Last update: 10 August 2023

Report a mistake/Make a comment