agheasmă

Romanian

Alternative forms

• aghiazmă, agheazmă — archaic
• aiasmă, aiazmă

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek αγίασμα (agíasma), possibly partly through the intermediate of South Slavic or Old Church Slavonic. Compare Aromanian agiazma, Albanian ajazmë.

Noun

agheasmă f (uncountable)

1. holy water

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	agheasmă	agheasma
genitive-dative	agheasme	agheasmei
vocative	agheasmă, agheasmo

See also

• iazmă