iazmă

Romanian

Alternative forms

• iasmă

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from a reduction of agheasmă (“holy water”) (cf. the variant aiasmă), in that it was believed to ward off apparitions, and is thus used euphemistically; compare the expressions cruce-n casă or bată-l crucea, which refer to the Devil. Other proposed etymologies are less likely, such as Slavic jazva ("wound"), old German ethma ("spirit").

Noun

iazmă f (plural iezme)

1. ghost, (evil) spirit, phantom, spectre, spook, fright

   Synonyms: spectru, fantomă, fantasmă, apariție, strigoi

Declension

Declension of iazmă

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) iazmă	iazma	(niște) iezme	iezmele
genitive/dative	(unei) iezme	iezmei	(unor) iezme	iezmelor
vocative	iazmă, iazmo		iezmelor