Absent words - Ž

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Occasionally I had to translate from Serbian to English, and hit my head against several walls, as it happens to any translator. One of these walls were the words which are absolutely missing in English. In several cases I actually asked Anglophones for help, but didn't get much.
The missing Serbian words are described to the best of my ability. The attempts often proved futile.
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The word I can't translate
Description of a possible translation
žeravica
hot coals, or just coals, is not it. "žeravica" is the red glowing pieces beneath the flame, and doesn't require any coal at all. It can be wood, or just weeds.
embers is not it, because it assumes a single piece of žeravica in the ashes of the dying fire. Žeravica is the total of such pieces also when the fire is fully aglow.
žmuriti
keep one's eyes closed
likewise, „zažmuri“ means „close [your] eyes“, without any need to specify whose eyes