Meaning of цьма | Babel Free

Definitions

1. darkness
   feminine, inanimate, uncountable
2. lots, heaps, myriad, multitude, swarm, crowd (an overwhelmingly large number of people, animals, plants or other things)
   colloquial, feminine, inanimate, uncountable

Examples

“Наво́кала бе́злюдзь і цьма, І то́лькі кігі́каюць со́вы.”

All around is desolation and darkness, and only owls are hooting.

“Ось і цяпер Бог паслаў вельмі цёплую вясну; усюды напладзілася такая цьма рознае машкары, што ліку німа ей.”

And nowadays God sent us a very warm spring; myriads of various insects spawned everywhere so much that they are countless.

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