rusalka

See also: rusałka

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian руса́лка (rusálka, “mermaid, siren”)

Noun

rusalka (plural rusalkas or rusalky or rusalki)

1. (Slavic mythology) A female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths underwater.
   • 2009 March 1, Alastair Macaulay, “What Do Aquawomen Want?”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     She is now a rusalka, a water spirit; in revenge she sends their daughter, a rusalochka, to lure him into the water.

Hypernyms

• siren

Translations

female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths

• Arabic: رُوسَالْكَا f (rūsālkā)
• Belarusian: руса́лка f (rusálka)
• Bulgarian: руса́лка (bg) f (rusálka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 魯薩爾卡／鲁萨尔卡 (lǔsà'ěrkǎ), 鲁萨尔卡 (lǔsà'ěrkǎ)

• Czech: rusalka (cs) f
• Dutch: roesalka f, rusalka f
• Finnish: rusalka
• French: roussalka (fr) f
• German: Rusalka f, Russalka f
• Greek: ρουσάλκα f (rousálka)
• Italian: rusalka f
• Japanese: ルサールカ (rusāruka)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 루살카 (rusalka)
• Macedonian: русалка f (rusalka)
• Polish: rusałka (pl) f
• Portuguese: rusalka f
• Russian: руса́лка (ru) f (rusálka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: русалка f

  Roman: rusalka (sh) f

• Slovak: rusalka f
• Slovene: rusalka f
• Spanish: rusalka f
• Ukrainian: руса́лка (uk) f (rusálka)

Anagrams

• kursaal

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Portuguese

Noun

rusalka f (plural rusalkas)

1. (Slavic mythology) rusalka (female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths)