săblăzni

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic съблазнити (sŭblazniti). Attested in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sə.bləzˈni/
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: să‧blăz‧ni

Verb

a săblăzni (third-person singular present săblăznește, past participle săblăznit) 4th conj. (obsolete)

1. (reflexive) to fall into sin, to morally decay
   • 16th c., Codex Sturdzanus, folio 79^r; edited in Gheorghe Chivu, editor, Codex Sturdzanus‎^[1], Bucharest: Romanian Academy, 1993, →ISBN:

     ѡ҆́фецїемїеикꙋмꙋвацисъблѫꙁни

     O, feție^{[sic – meaning feții]} miei, cumu v-ați săblăzni[tu]!

     O, my children, how you’ve decayed!

2. (transitive) to lead into sin, lead astray
3. (reflexive) to renounce, disown, deny [with de]
4. (reflexive) to have nocturnal emission

Derived terms

• săblăznire
• săblăznitor

Related terms

• săblaznă

References

• săblăzni in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
• Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1986), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎^[2], volume 10, part 1, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, page 128