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blestema
to curse /bles.teˈma/
verb#3085 most common
Also: to damn, to invoke misfortune upon someone
Example sentences
Bunica blestema des.
Grandma used to curse often.
Vecinul blestema de fiecare dată când pierdea la cărți.
The neighbor would curse every time he lost at cards.
Tradiția spune că a blestema pe cineva aduce ghinion.
Tradition says that cursing someone brings bad luck.
Vrăjitoarea din poveste a blestemat castelul pentru o sută de ani.
The witch in the story cursed the castle for a hundred years.
Se zice că bătrânul blestema pe oricine îi călca pragul casei.
It is said that the old man used to curse anyone who crossed the threshold of his house.
Deși majoritatea nu mai credeau în superstiții, satul întreg era convins că strigoiul blestema pe oricine îndrăznea să-i tulbure odihna.
Although most people no longer believed in superstitions, the whole village was convinced that the ghost cursed anyone who dared disturb its rest.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | blestem | blestemai | voi blestema |
| 2sg | blestemi | blestemași | vei blestema |
| 3sg | blestemă | blestemă | va blestema |
| 1pl | blestemăm | blestemarăm | vom blestema |
| 2pl | blestemați | blestemarăți | veți blestema |
| 3pl | blestemă | blestemară | vor blestema |
Word family
blestema curse, an oath
blestematcursed, damned
blestemățiea wretched, damnable thing (also used as an exclamation)
Etymology
Romanian "blestema" comes from Slavic, not Latin, reflecting centuries of Slavic influence on Romanian religious and folk vocabulary. Dictionaries trace it to a form related to Old Church Slavonic "blagosloviti," which meant "to bless." The sense flipped over time from blessing to cursing, a reversal some scholars link to ironic or euphemistic speech about sacred matters. The native Romanian verb for straightforward profanity, "a înjura," is a separate word with a different origin.
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