Translation
devil
Examples
rakonto .
In the old story the devil visits the village.
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He believed neither in God nor in the devil.
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The priest spoke at length about the devil.
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The boy was not afraid of the devil.
diabla !
What a devilish noise is coming from the yard!
earns its place in the top thousand mainly through fiction: the early Esperanto corpus is thick with translated folk tales, and folk tales are thick with devils. It carries the same mild swearing duty as in English, so diable! works as an exclamation and diabla as an intensifier, both a shade coarser than anything you would write in a formal letter. Belief takes or : . Do not confuse it with , which is a separate root despite the shared opening letters.
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