Meaning of zīst | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to suck, to suckle (to press a female nipple with one's lips and tongue, so that it produces milk; to drink the milk so produced)
   intransitive, transitive
2. third-person singular/plural present indicative of zīt
   form-of, indicative, plural, present, singular, third-person
3. to suck, to suckle (to take something into one's mouth and make sucking movements)
   intransitive, transitive
4. third-person singular imperative of zīt
   form-of, imperative, singular, third-person, with-lai
5. to smoke (a pipe, a cigarette, etc.) slowly
   colloquial, intransitive, transitive
6. third-person plural imperative of zīt
   form-of, imperative, plural, third-person, with-lai

Equivalents

Examples

“zīst māti”

to suckle (one's) mother (i.e., to suckle milk from one's mother's breast)

“bērns zīž krūti”

the child suckles the breast

“kaķēns vēl nezīž”

the kitten doesn't suckle yet

“jēri metas zīst”

the lambs rushed to suckle

“trīs mazi ezēni zīda māti, sagulušies rindā kā sivēni”

three little hedgehogs suckled (their) mother, lying in a row like piglets

“zīst ķepu, pirkstu”

to suck(le) (one's) paw, finger

“bērni visbiežāk zīž pirkstus pirms iemigšanas un pēc pamošanās”

children most often suck (their) fingers before sleep or after waking up

“pēdējo smēķa galiņu zīzdams, Klucis noskatīja daudz neveiklāko Modri”

sucking the last tip of (his) cigarette, Klucis looked at the much clumsier Modris

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