esma

From English asthma.

esma

1. asthma
   • 2021, Indigenous Australian Youth Futures: Living the Social Determinants of Health, page 118:

     Yea imin sik garra...daiyariya en...bedkol plas imin abu det esma du.

     Yeah, he was sick with diarrhea and...sinus, plus he had asthma too.

• esme

From esme, from obsolete aesmar (“to estimate, value”, verb).

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

esma f (plural esmes)

1. rote (mechanical routine); skill with mindless tasks

   d'esma ― mechanically; mindlessly

   • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 8, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:

     Tot es feia amb gestos mecànics. Si parlàvem era amb l'esma d'actors mediocres que reciten un text ensopit.

     Everything was done with mechanical gestures. When we talked it sounded like mediocre actors mindlessly rehearsing a dull text.

2. good sense, good judgment
3. strength, courage

   Synonyms: força, coratge

   • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 11, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:

     –On dimonis va ara? –em va recriminar en Batís. No tenia esma ni per contestar.

     “Where the hell are you going now?”, Batís reproached. I didn't even have the strength to reply.

• desesma
• esmaperdut

• “esma”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “esma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “esma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “esma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Clipped compounds of this kind are common in informal Dutch; compare for example baco.

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esma m (plural esma's, diminutive esmaatje n)

1. (slang) Clipping of espresso martini.

esma

1. inflection of esmar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative