English
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Etymology
From Old French exorciser, from Late Latin exorcizō, from Ancient Greek ἐξορκίζω (exorkízō, “to ward off, to charge under oath, adjure”), from ἐξ (ex) + ὅρκος (hórkos).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɛk.sɔː.sɪ.zəm/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɛk.sɔɹˌsɪ.zəm/, /ˈɛk.sɚˌsɪ.zəm/
Noun
exorcism (countable and uncountable, plural exorcisms)
- The ritual act of driving out evil spirits from persons, places or things that are possessed by them.
Derived terms
Translations
ritual driving out of evil spirits
- Arabic: رُقْيَة f (ruqya)
- Armenian: դիվահալածություն (hy) (divahalacutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: ekzorsizm
- Catalan: exorcisme (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 驅魔 / 驱魔 (zh) (qūmó), 破魔 (pòmó)
- Czech: exorcismus
- Danish: eksorcisme c
- Dutch: exorcisme (nl) n, uitdrijving (nl) f
- Esperanto: ekzorco
- Finnish: manaus (fi), henkien poismanaus, eksorkismi
- French: exorcisme (fr) m
- Galician: exorcismo (gl) m
- German: Exorzismus (de) m, Teufelaustreibung f, Teufelsbeschwörung (de) f
- Greek: εξορκισμός (el) m (exorkismós)
- Hebrew: גירוש שדים
- Hindi: हाज़िरात (hāzirāt), अभिचार (hi) (abhicār), दावत (hi) (dāvat), भूतापसारण (bhūtāpsāraṇ), भूतशुद्धि (hi) (bhūtśuddhi), झाड़-फूँक (jhāṛ-phū̃k), पिशाचनाशन (piśācnāśan), ओझाई (hi) (ojhāī), झाड़ (hi) (jhāṛ), झाड़ा (hi) (jhāṛā), सोखाई (hi) (sokhāī), ओझैती (hi) (ojhaitī), परी-ख़्वानी (parī-xvānī)
- Italian: esorcismo (it) m
- Japanese: 破魔 (ja) (はま, hama), 祓魔 (ふつま, futsuma), 悪魔払い (あくまばらい, akuma-barai, あくまはらい, akuma-harai), エクソシズム (ekusoshizumu)
- Korean: 굿 (ko) (gut), 구마 (guma)
- Latin: adiuratio f
- Lithuanian: egzorcizmas
- Macedonian: егзорци́зам m (egzorcízam), истеру́вање n (isterúvanje)
- Norwegian: eksorsisme (no)
- Old English: hālsung f
- Polish: egzorcyzm (pl) m, egzorcyzmowanie (pl) n
- Portuguese: exorcismo (pt)
- Romanian: exorcism (ro)
- Russian: экзорци́зм (ru) m (ekzorcízm), изгна́ние нечи́стой си́лы n (izgnánije nečístoj síly)
- Serbo-Croatian: egzorcizam (sh) m
- Sicilian: ciarmu (scn) m, ciarmatura f
- Spanish: exorcismo (es)
- Swedish: exorcism (sv), andeutdrivning (sv) c
- Turkish: egzorsizm
- Ukrainian: екзорци́зм (uk) m (ekzorcýzm)
- Volapük: sädiabam
- Yiddish: באַשווערונג f (bashverung), השבעה f (hashboe)
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See also
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French exorcisme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ek.sorˈt͡ʃism/
Noun
exorcism n (uncountable)
- exorcism
Declension
Declension of exorcism
| singular only
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indefinite
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definite
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| nominative-accusative
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exorcism
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exorcismul
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| genitive-dative
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exorcism
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exorcismului
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| vocative
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exorcismule
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