#asmata

• Holy water font — A large vessel of metal, stone, or marble used in Orthodox churches to hold holy water (agheasmă); a small pavilion, open gazebo, or light structure located in the courtyard of a monastery or church, where the water blessing service is performed during major feasts; a liturgical book (also called Molitfelnic) containing the order of the blessing of water and other minor church services.
• Holy water font variant — An archaic form or rare variant for agheasmatar; a consecrated vessel designed for holding holy water or a restricted ecclesiastical space arranged inside or near the house of worship for performing the water blessing ritual. It is found in old church manuscripts and 18th-century monastic inventories.
• Holy water font — An orthographic and lexical variant recognized for agheasmatar; a large metallic vessel, monumental font, or ritual fountain used in Byzantine-tradition houses of worship for storing holy water. It also designates the covered outdoor pavilion where ecclesiastical communities celebrate the blessing of water, as well as the liturgical manual containing these rites.
• Holy water font variant — A rare, popularly deformed, or regional form for the term agheasmatar; a consecrated vessel used in houses of worship for holding holy water or, by extension, the water blessing service performed by a priest during Christian feasts. It is found in southern dialects or handwritten church texts.
• Holy water font variant — A rare or regional term utilized in the past in some rural communities in the west of the country to designate a small portable wooden or metallic container used for transporting spring water or, in an ecclesiastical sense, a popularly phonetically altered variant for the person who accompanies the priest with holy water.
• Holy water font — A current orthographic and phonetic variant for agheasmatar; a monumental font, large metallic vessel, or stone basin used in Orthodox houses of worship for blessing and holding holy water (agheasmă). It also designates the small open pavilion in monastery courtyards where the great blessing of water is performed, as well as the liturgical book containing these rites.
• Holy water font variant — A rare, archaic, or popularly deformed form for the person who sprinkles holy water or for the consecrated ritual vessel (aghiasmatar); in local dialects, it can indicate the person (cantor, sexton) who accompanies the priest with the holy water vessel during house blessings on Epiphany.
• Holy water font variant — A rare, popularly deformed, or regional form for the term agheasmatar; a consecrated vessel used in houses of worship for holding holy water or, by extension, the water blessing service performed by a priest during Christian feasts. It is found in southern dialects or handwritten church texts.
• Asmata — An archaeological technical term designating a ritual pit or small funerary enclosure specific to certain Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures, used for depositing offerings, sacred ash remnants, or cult objects dedicated to chthonic deities during communal religious ceremonies.