săblăzni

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic съблазнити (sŭblazniti). Attested in the fifteenth and sixteenth 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 79r; edited in Gheorghe Chivu, editor, Codex Sturdzanus, 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 [+ de (object, in all attestations referring to God)]
  4. (reflexive) to have nocturnal emission

References

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