kelpie

English

Etymology

The dog breed derives from the name shared by the first two breeding bitches (dam and pup), which name derives from the mythological spirit.

Noun

kelpie (plural kelpies)

1. A malevolent shapeshifting spirit, most often in the form of a horse, believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland.
2. An Australian breed of sheepdog.
   • 1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador 2014, p. 4:

     Gulls scatter before the blur of my insane kelpie.

Translations

spirit

• Azerbaijani: kelpi
• Bengali: কেলপি (kelpi)
• Bulgarian: келпи (kelpi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水鬼 (zh) (shuǐguǐ), 凱爾派／凯尔派 (kǎiěrpài)

• Finnish: vetehishevonen, jokihevonen
• French: kelpie (fr) m
• Georgian: კელპი (ḳelṗi)
• German: Kelpie f
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• Indonesian: kelpi
• Irish: each-uisge m
• Japanese: ケルピー (kerupī)
• Korean: 켈피 (kelpi)
• Russian: ке́лпи (ru) m or f (kélpi)
• Thai: เคลพี (keelá-pii)
• Turkish: kelpi
• Ukrainian: ке́льпі m or f (kélʹpi)

sheepdog

• Finnish: australiankelpie
• French: australian kelpie (fr) m
• German: Australian Kelpie f
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• Japanese: オーストラリアン・ケルピー (ōsutorarian kerupī)
• Polish: kelpie australiano m
• Spanish: kelpie australiano m

Anagrams

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