aufglühen
German, verb
aufglühen is spelled A-U-F-G-L-Ü-H-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 93 million words in written German, the 610,218th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aufglühen is a German verb meaning “to (begin to) glow or gleam” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Aufglühen is a different word: “gerund of aufglühen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zu glühen beginnen; glühend aufleuchten”.
What does aufglühen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to (begin to) glow or gleam
- 2
to awaken
noun
- 1
neutergerund of aufglühen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. zu glühen beginnen; glühend aufleuchten
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of aufglühen
- glüht auf present singular third-person
- glühte auf past
- aufgeglüht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- aufglühend participle present
- aufzuglühen infinitive infinitive-zu
- glühe auf first-person indicative present
- glühen auf first-person indicative plural
- glühst auf indicative present second-person
- glühest auf second-person singular subjunctive
- glühet auf plural second-person subjunctive
- glühten auf first-person indicative plural
- glühtest auf indicative preterite second-person
- glühtet auf indicative plural preterite
- glüh auf! imperative singular
- glühe auf! imperative singular
- glüht auf! imperative plural
- sein auxiliary perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is aufglühen in German?
aufglühen appears about once in every 93 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).