vampyr

See also: Vampyr and vampýr

English

Noun

vampyr (plural vampyrs)

1. (archaic or fantasy) Alternative form of vampire (“undead creature”).

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Vampir, from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr (“vampire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vampyːr/, [ʋɑmˈpʰyɐ̯ˀ]

Noun

vampyr c (singular definite vampyren, plural indefinite vampyrer)

1. vampire
2. vampire bat (Desmodontinae)

Inflection

Declension of vampyr

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vampyr	vampyren	vampyrer	vampyrerne
genitive	vampyrs	vampyrens	vampyrers	vampyrernes

Descendants

• → Greenlandic: vampyri
• → Icelandic: vampíra

See also

• vampyr on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Norwegian Bokmål

vampyr

Etymology

Borrowed from German Vampir, from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr (“vampire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑmˈpyːr/

Noun

vampyr m (definite singular vampyren, indefinite plural vampyrer, definite plural vampyrene)

1. vampire

References

“vampyr” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from German Vampir, from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr (“vampire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑmˈpyːr/

Noun

vampyr m (definite singular vampyren, indefinite plural vampyrar, definite plural vampyrane)

1. vampire

References

“vampyr” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

en vampyr

Etymology

Borrowed from German Vampir, from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr (“vampire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vamˈpyːr/
• Rhymes: -yːr

Noun

vampyr c

1. a vampire (undead creature)
2. a vampire (vampire bat)

Declension

Declension of vampyr

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	vampyr	vampyrs
	definite	vampyren	vampyrens
plural	indefinite	vampyrer	vampyrers
	definite	vampyrerna	vampyrernas

See also

• påle
• vitlök

References

• “vampyr”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “vampyr”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “vampyr”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)