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mirken

mirken verb: to grow dark.

Verb

mirken (third-person singular simple present mirkens, present participle mirkening, simple past and past participle mirkened)

  1. (Scotland, intransitive, rare) To grow dark.
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mirken meaning in Bengali

mirken in Bengali

অন্ধকার হওয়া

Forms of mirken

third-person singular presentmirkens
present participlemirkening
past participlemirkened
pastmirkened

Origin of mirken

From Middle English mirkenen, merknen, from Old Norse myrkna (“to darken”). Cognate with Icelandic myrkna (“to darken”), Swedish mörkna (“to get dark, darken”), Danish mørkne (“to darken”), equivalent to mirk + -en. More at murk.

Words formed from mirken

Words that rhyme with mirken

Questions about mirken

What does mirken mean?
Mirken means to grow dark.
What is mirken in Bengali?
Mirken in Bengali is অন্ধকার হওয়া. See Mirken meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is mirken?
Mirken is a verb.
What is the past tense of mirken?
The past tense of mirken is mirkened.

Words near mirken in the dictionary

  1. Miriwung
  2. Mirizzi's syndrome
  3. Mirjapur
  4. mirk
  5. mirked
  6. mirken
  7. mirkened
  8. mirkening
  9. mirkens
  10. mirkest
  11. mirkier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mirken (page history and authors); mirken (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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