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. The word "vampire" has its roots in the Mediterranean languages. The earliest reference to the word arises in the Slavonic Magyar; from "vam", meaning "blood", and "pir", meaning "monster/creature/thing".

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vampire (plural vampires)

1. A mythological undead creature said to feed on the blood of the living. [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, lamia
• (bat): vampire bat
• (blood drinker): hemovore

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
• Bulgarian: вампир (bg) (vampir)
• Catalan: vampir
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吸血鬼 (cmn) (xī xuě guǐ), 殭屍 (cmn), 僵尸 (cmn) (jiāngshī)

• Czech: upír (cs) m, vampýr
• Danish: vampyr (da)
• Dutch: vampier (nl) m
• Esperanto: vampiro (eo)
• Estonian: vampiir (et)
• Finnish: vampyyri (fi), verenimijä (fi)
• French: vampire (fr) m
• Galician: vampiro
• Georgian: ვამპირი (ka) (vampiri)
• 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
• Marathi: व्हॅम्पायर (mr) (vhǎmpāyara)
• Norwegian: vampyr (no) m
• Polish: wampir (pl) m, upiór (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
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вампир m, вампирка f, вампирица f

  Latin: 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)
• Telugu: రక్త పిశాచి (te)
• 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)
• French: chauve-souris vampire (fr) f

• Greek: νυχτερίδα (el) (nychterída)
• Hungarian: denevér (hu)
• Russian: вампир (ru) (vampír) m
• Ukrainian: вампір (uk) (vampír)
• Vietnamese: dơi hút máu (vi)

Related terms

• vamp

See also

• werewolf
• bloodsucker
• hemovore
• 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
• The meaning of the word "vampire"

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