mandrake

English

Etymology

From mandragora, with -dragora reinterpreted as related to dragon and replaced with native drake.

Noun

mandrake (plural mandrakes)

1. (mythology) A mandragora, a kind of tiny demon immune to fire.
2. Any plant of the genus Mandragora, certain of which are said to have medicinal properties; the curiously shaped root of these plants has been likened to the shape of a little man, and thus, has attained some mythic significance.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• American mandrake
• mandrake apple
• mandrake root

• mandrake shriek
• mandrake wine
• wild mandrake

Related terms

• mandragora

Translations

mythology

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botany

• Arabic: يَبْرُوح (yabrūḥ), لُفَّاح m (luffāḥ), بَيْض الْجِنّ m (bayḍ al-jinn), تُفَّاح الْمَجَانِين m (tuffāḥ al-majānīn), مَانْدْرَاكُورَا (māndrākōrā)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܝܲܒܼܪܘܼܚܵܐ m (yaḇrūḥā)

  Hebrew: יַבְרוּחָא m (yaḇrūḥā)

• Armenian: մանրագոր (hy) (manragor)
• Catalan: mandràgora
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 風茄／风茄, 风茄 (fēngjiā), 曼德拉草 (màndélācǎo)

• Czech: pokřín, pekřín
• Danish: alrune
• Dutch: mandragora (nl)
• Finnish: alruuna (fi)
• French: mandragore (fr) f
• German: Alraune (de) f
• Greek: μανδραγόρας (el) m (mandragóras)

  Ancient: μανδραγόρας m (mandragóras)

• Hebrew: דּוּדָא (he) m (dúda)
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• Hungarian: mandragóra (hu)
• Italian: mandragora
• Japanese: マンドラゴラ (ja) (mandoragora)
• Latin: mandragora
• Maori: manitareki
• Norwegian: alruner
• Polish: mandragora (pl) f, alrauna (pl) f
• Portuguese: mandrágora (pt) f
• Romanian: mandragoră (ro) f
• Russian: мандраго́ра (ru) f (mandragóra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мандрагора f, алрауна f, буновина f, надлишка f

  Roman: mandragora (sh) f, alrauna (sh) f, bunovina (sh) f, nadliška (sh) f

• Spanish: mandrágora (es) f
• Swedish: alruna (sv) c
• Turkish: adam otu (tr)
• Ukrainian: мандраго́ра f (mandrahóra)