Russian

Verb

блести́ • ‎(blestí)

1. second-person singular imperative imperfective of блесте́ть ‎(blestétʹ)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic блѧсти ‎(blęsti), from Proto-Slavic *blęsti ‎(“talk nonsense, err”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *blend-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blesti/
• Hyphenation: бле‧сти

Verb

блести impf ‎(Latin spelling blesti)

1. (intransitive, archaic) to blather, to talk foolishly [From XVI century.]
2. (intransitive, archaic) to blaspheme [From XVI century.]
3. (intransitive, archaic) to bleat, to baa [From XVI century.]

Synonyms

• (blather): блебѐтати
• (blaspheme): ху́лити
• (bleat): бле́јати