charisma

See also: Charisma

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek χᾰ́ρῐσμᾰ (khárisma, “grace, favour, gift”), from χᾰρῐ́ζομαι (kharízomai, “I show favor”), from χᾰ́ρῐς (kháris, “grace”), from χαίρω (khaírō, “I am happy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɪzmə/

Noun

charisma (usually uncountable, plural charismas or charismata)

1. Personal charm or magnetism
2. (Christianity) An extraordinary power granted by the Holy Spirit
3. The ability to influence without the use of logic.

Synonyms

• charm, spell

Translations

personal charm or magnetism

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: խարիզմա (hy) (xarizma), հմայք (hy) (hmaykʻ), թովչանք (hy) (tʻovčʻankʻ)
• Catalan: carisma (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 魅力 (zh) (mèilì)

• Esperanto: karismo
• Finnish: karisma (fi)
• French: charisme (fr) m
• Galician: carisma (gl) m
• Georgian: ქარიზმა (karizma)
• German: Ausstrahlung (de) f, Charisma (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: χάρισμα n (khárisma)

  Modern: χάρισμα (el) n (chárisma)

• Hebrew: כריזמה (he) f
• Indonesian: karisma (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: carisma (it) m
• Japanese: カリスマ (ja) (karisuma), シャルム (sharumu), 魅力 (ja) (みりょく, miryoku)
• Maori: mana ātahu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: karisma m

• Persian: کاریزما (fa) (kârizmâ)
• Polish: charyzma (pl) f
• Portuguese: carisma (pt) m
• Romanian: carismă, charismă f
• Russian: хари́зма (ru) f (xarízma), обая́ние (ru) n (obajánije), шарм (ru) m (šarm), очарова́ние (ru) n (očarovánije)
• Serbo-Croatian: karìzma (sh) f
• Spanish: carisma (es) m
• Swedish: karisma (sv) c, utstrålning (sv) c
• Thai: เสน่ห์ (th) (sà-nèe)
• Turkish: karizma (tr)

extraordinary power granted by the Holy Spirit

• Greek: θείο χάρισμα n (theío chárisma)
• Indonesian: karisma (id)
• Polish: charyzmat (pl) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Serbo-Croatian: karìzma (sh) f

ability to influence without the use of logic

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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Translations to be checked

• Spanish: pegue (es) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Anagrams

• archaism, machairs