exorcism

English

Etymology

From Old French exorciser, from Late Latin exorcizō, from Ancient Greek ἐξορκίζω (exorkízō, “banish an evil spirit; bind by oath”), from ἐξ (ex) + ὅρκος (hórkos).

Noun

exorcism (countable and uncountable, plural exorcisms)

1. The ritual act of driving out evil spirits from persons, places or things who are possessed by them.

Related terms

• exorcise
• exorcist
• exorcistical
• exorcistic

Translations

ritual driving out of evil spirits

• Arabic: رُقْيَة‎ (ruqya)
• Armenian: դիվահալածություն (hy) (divahalacutʿyun)
• Azerbaijani: ekzorsizm
• Catalan: exorcisme (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 驅魔 (zh), 驱魔 (zh) (qūmó), 破魔 (pòmó)

• Czech: exorcismus
• Danish: eksorcisme c
• Dutch: exorcisme (nl), uitdrijving (nl) f
• Finnish: manaus (fi), henkien poismanaus
• French: exorcisme (fr) m
• Galician: exorcismo m
• German: Exorzismus (de) m, Teufelaustreibung f, Teufelsbeschwörung f
• Greek: εξορκισμός (el) m (exorkismós)
• Hebrew: גירוש שדים‎
• Italian: esorcismo (it) m

• Japanese: 破魔 (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)
• Lithuanian: egzorcizmas
• Macedonian: егзорци́зам m (egzorcízam)
• Norwegian: eksorsisme (no)
• Polish: egzorcyzm (pl) m, egzorcyzmowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: exorcismo
• Romanian: exorcism
• Russian: экзорци́зм (ru) m (ekzorcízm), изгна́ние нечи́стой си́лы n (izgnánije nečístoj síly)
• Serbo-Croatian: egzorcizam (sh) m
• Spanish: exorcismo (es)
• Swedish: exorcism (sv), andeutdrivning c
• Turkish: egzorsizm
• Volapük: sädiabam
• Yiddish: באַשווערונג‎ f (bashverung), השבעה‎ f (hashboe)