exorcism

English

Noun

Wikipedia

exorcism (plural exorcisms)

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

Translations

ritual driving out of evil spirits

• Arabic: رقية (ruqya)
• Azerbaijani: ekzorsizm
• Catalan: exorcisme
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: exorcismus
• Dutch: exorcisme (nl)
• Finnish: manaus (fi), henkien poismanaus
• French: exorcisme (fr) m
• German: Exorzismus (de) m, Teufelaustreibung f, Teufelsbeschwörung f
• Greek: εξορκισμός (el) (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), エクソシスム (ekusoshisumu)

• Korean: 굿 (ko) (gut)
• Lithuanian: egzorcizmas
• Macedonian: егзорцизам m (egzorcízam)
• Norwegian: eksorsisme (no)
• Polish: egzorcyzm m
• Portuguese: exorcismo
• Romanian: exorcism
• Russian: зкзорцизм m (ekzorcízm), изгнание нечистой силы n (izgnánije nečístoj síly)
• Serbo-Croatian: egzorcizam m
• Spanish: exorcismo (es)
• Swedish: exorcism
• Turkish: egzorsizm
• Volapük: sädiabam

Derived terms

• exorcise
• exorcist