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From Middle English mermayde (“maid of the sea”), from mere (“sea, lake”) + maid, equivalent to mer- + maid. Compare Old English meremenn, meremennen, meremenin (“mermaid, siren”).
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mermaid (plural mermaids)
- A mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish.
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mythological woman with a fish's tail
- Arabic: حورية البحر f (Huuráyyat al-baHr), حورية الماء f (Huuráyyat al-maa')
- Armenian: ջրահարս (ǰrahars)
- Asturian: serena f, sirena f
- Catalan: sirena f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 人魚 (zh), 人鱼 (zh) (rényú)
- Czech: mořská panna f
- Danish: havfrue c
- Dutch: zeemeermin (nl) f, meermin (nl) f
- Esperanto: sireno
- Estonian: merineitsi
- Finnish: merenneito (fi)
- French: sirène (fr) f
- Galician: serea f
- German: Nixe (de) f, Wassernixe f, Seejungfrau f, Meerjungfrau (de) f
- Greek: γοργόνα (el) f (gorgóna), σειρήνα (el) f (seirína)
- Hawaiian: wahine hiʻu iʻa
- Hindi: मत्स्यांगना (matsyāṅganā)
- Hungarian: hableány (hu), sellő (hu)
- Icelandic: hafmey (is) f
- Irish: maighdean mhara f
- Italian: sirena (it) f
- Japanese: 人魚 (にんぎょ, ningyo)
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