blika.
cirrostratus, rain cloud
Meaning & usage
cirrostratus, rain cloud
a veil of clouds (as can cover the sun)
Where this word comes from
From Old Norse blíkja, from Proto-Germanic *blīkaną (“to shine, gleam”).
to twinkle, to shimmer
to gleam, to glimmer, to glint
for there to be a gleaming/glimmering/glinting [with það ‘dummy subject’ and á (+ accusative) ‘object gleaming’] (idiomatically translated as “gleam”, “glimmer”, or “glint”, with the accusative prepositional object as the logical subject)
það blikar á húsið
for there to be a threatening weather
Það blikaði í lofti í gærkvöldi.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.