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

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	iazmă	iazma		iezme	iezmele
genitive-dative	iezme	iezmei		iezme	iezmelor
vocative	iazmă, iazmo			iezmelor