שמעלצן

Yiddish

Verb

שמעלצן • (shmeltsn) (past participle געשמאָלצן (geshmoltsn))

  1. (transitive, imperfect) to melt
  2. (intransitive) to melt
    • 1994, Rukhl Fishman, “מײַנע לידער נידערן װי שנײען [My Poems Fall Like Snow]”, in Seymour Levitan, transl., אַזױ װיל איך פֿלאַן׃ אָפּגעלקליבענע לידער פֿון רחל פֿישמאַן [I Want To Fall Like This: Selected Poems of Rukhl Fishman], page 96:
      מײַנע בלוטן שמעלצן זיך װי שנײען
      mayne blutn shmeltsn zikh vi shneyen
      My passions melt like snow
  3. to season (food) with fat

Conjugation

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