iazmă

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iazmă

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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 iezme · iazmă · iazma · iezmele

feminine ghost, (evil) spirit, phantom, spectre, spook, fright
Similar: spectru, fantomă, fantasmă, apariție, strigoi, nălucă, stafie

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goblin hostile diminutive humanoid in fantasy literature

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@misc{iazma_2026,
  title = {iazmă},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ro/iazm%C4%83},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}