baluginare

Meaning

1. (intransitive, usually) to flash or flicker (appear ad disappear rapidly) (of light)
2. (figuratively, intransitive) to come to mind suddenly, and sometimes unclearly

Concepts

flicker

flick

flickering

Synonyms

tremolare

balenare

sfarfallare

vacillare

guizzare

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Translations

brillar con luz tenue

pestanejar

piscar

titilar

Hyphenated as

ba‧lu‧gi‧nà‧re

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ba.lu.d͡ʒiˈna.re/

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from ba- + luce (“light”) + -ino + -are. The voicing of -c- is common in Tuscan (compare fagiolo, piagente, brage). The prefix ba(r)- would be a dialectal variant of bis-, here in the sense of “imperfectly” (compare barlume (“glimmer”)).