vampire (mythological creature) · spectre (past, frightening events or phenomena that are a threat again) · any sheath-tailed bat of the genus Emballonura
çekim: çoğul upiory · tamlayan upiora
eş: upiornik, strach, zmora
köken: Etymology tree East Slavicbor. Polish upiór Borrowed from an East Slavic language. Compare Ukrainian упир (upyr). Doublet of wampir and wąpierz.
female evil spirit or nocturnal apparition · vampire · witch; hag
çekim: çoğul strī̆gae · tamlayan strī̆gae
köken: Borrowed from Ancient Greek στρίγα (stríga), the accusative of στρίξ (stríx, “owl”), which also gave strī̆x (“screech owl; witch”), probably of onomatopoeic origin and related to Latin strīdō (“to make a shrill sound”). Compare typologically Russian карга́ (kargá), also considered borrowed, akin to Turkish karga.
köken: Borrowed from German Vampir, from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr (“vampire”).
Etimoloji
Borrowed from a South Slavic language, probably Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr / ва̀мпӣр or Bulgarian вампи́р (vampír), ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic *ǫpyrь (“vampire”). Anlaut v- > dh- is recorded in Gheg Albanian, reinforced by folk reanalysis as dham (“tooth”, standard dhëmb) + pi (“drink”).