vampire

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• (archaic) vampyre

Etymology

From French vampire or German Vampir, from Hungarian vámpír, from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr, from Macedonian. Cf. Russian упырь (upýr’), Polish upiór, etc.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈvæm.paɪ.ə(ɹ)/, SAMPA: /"v{m.paI.@(r)/

Noun

vampire (plural vampires)

1. A mythological undead creature said to feed on human blood. [from earlier 18th c.]
2. (colloquial) A person with the medical condition Systemic lupus erythematosus, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity, brownish-red stained teeth, and increased night vision.
3. A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) [from later 18th c.]

Synonyms

• (mythological creature): nosferatu
• (bat): vampire bat

Derived terms

• vampire bat
• vampiress
• vampiric
• vampirism

Translations

mythological creature

Afrikaans: vampier Albanian: dhampir (sq) Arabic: مصاصة (ar) (maSSaaSa) f. Armenian: վամպիր (hy) (vampir) Asturian: vampiru Basque: banpiro Bosnian: vampir (bs) m., vampirka (bs) f. Bulgarian: вампир (bg) Catalan: vampir Chinese: Mandarin: 吸血鬼 (cmn) (xī xuě guǐ), 殭屍 (cmn), 僵尸 (cmn) (jiāngshī) Croatian: vampir (hr) Czech: upír (cs) m., vampýr Danish: vampyr (da) Dutch: vampier (nl) Esperanto: vampiro (eo) Estonian: vampiir (et) (mythological creature) Finnish: vampyyri (fi), verenimijä (fi) French: vampire (fr) m. Galician: vampiro Georgian: ვამპირი (ka) German: Vampir (de) m. Greek: βαμπίρ (el) (vampír) n. Hebrew: ערפד (arpad) Hungarian: vámpír (hu) Icelandic: vampíra (is) f. Indonesian: vampir (id) Italian: vampiro (it)

Japanese: 吸血鬼 (ja) (きゅうけつき, kyūketsuki), ヴァンパイア (ja) (banpaia, vanpaia) Korean: 흡혈귀 (ko) (heubhyeolgwi) Latvian: vampīrs Lithuanian: vampyras m.; vampyrė f. Luxembourgish: Vampir (lb) m. Macedonian: вампир (mk) (vámpir) m. Norwegian: vampyr (no) m. Polish: wampir (pl) m. Portuguese: vampiro (pt) m. Romanian: vampir (ro) m., vampiră (ro) f., strigoi (ro), vârcolac (ro), vampiri (ro) m. pl., strigoaie (ro) f. Russian: вампир (ru) (vampír) m., упырь (ru) (upýr') m. Scottish Gaelic: bhampair Serbian: Cyrillic: вампир m., вампирка f., вампирица f. Roman: vampir m., vampirka f., vampirica f. Slovak: upír, vampír Slovene: vampír (sl) m. Spanish: vampiro (es) Sumerian: akhkharu Swahili: mumiani (sw), vampiri (sw), mnyonya-damu (sw) Swedish: vampyr (sv) c. Tagalog: bampira (tl) Turkish: vampir (tr) Ukrainian: упир (uk) (upýr), вампір (uk) (vampír) Vietnamese: ma cà rồng (vi) Volapük: (male or female) vampir (vo), (male) hivampir (vo), (female) jivampir (vo) Welsh: fampir

bat

Czech: vampýr Esperanto: desmodo (eo) Estonian: vereimeja Finnish: vampyyrilepakko (fi), vampyyri (fi) Greek: νυχτερίδα (el)

Hungarian: denevér (hu) Russian: вампир (ru) (vampír) m. Ukrainian: вампір (uk) (vampír) Vietnamese: dơi hút máu (vi)

Related terms

• vamp

See also

• werewolf
• bloodsucker
• Vampire (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Vampire (disambiguation)
• Common vampire bat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Common vampire bat
• Desmodus rotundus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Desmodus rotundus
• Desmodus rotundus on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Desmodus rotundus
• Desmodus rotundus on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Desmodus rotundus

Anagrams

• vampier

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Esperanto

Adverb

vampire

1. vampirically

Related terms

• vampira (“vampiric”)
• vampiro (“vampire”)

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Noun

vampire m. (plural vampires)

1. vampire

Derived terms

• vampirique
• vampiriser

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: [vamˈpi.re]

Noun

vampire f. pl.

1. Plural form of vampiră.

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