köken: From Middle High German alb, alp, from Old High German alp, from Proto-West Germanic *albi, from Proto-Germanic *albiz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós. Doublet of Elf, borrowed from English later.
a small humanoid creature who invades homes at night to carry out mischief and scare the residents · goblin, leprechaun, gnome, pixie, elf, imp, brownie, gremlin, hobgoblin · charisma (the power to attract through personal magnetism and charm)
çekim: çoğul duendes
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish duen de casa (“master of the house”). Compare Sicilian donni di casa. See more at dueño.
nella mitologia germanica, essere soprannaturale con sembianze riconducibili a quelle dell'uomo ma col potere di incarnare i fenomeni atmosferici e naturali, e che vive in comunità spensierate nelle foreste
alif (the letter ا, the first letter of the Persian and Arabic abjads) · something or someone erect and tall like the letter ا; (in particular) the beautiful, slender stature of the beloved
köken: Borrowed from Arabic أَلِف (ʔalif).
ما کهایم اندر جهان پیچ پیچ چون الف او خود چه دارد هیچ هیچ
نیست بر لوحِ دلم جز الفِ قامتِ دوست چه کنم حرفِ دگر یاد نداد استادم
a small humanoid creature who invades homes at night to carry out mischief and scare the residents · any small fictional humanoid, especially a mischievous or evil one · Christmas elf (an elf that assists Santa Claus with the making, wrapping, delivery, etc., of presents)
çekim: çoğul duendes
köken: Borrowed from Spanish duende, from Old Spanish duen de casa (“house master”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *albʰósder. Proto-Germanic *albiz Proto-West Germanic *albi Old English ielf Middle English elf English elfbor. German Elfbor. Polish elf Borrowed from German Elf.
A kind of spirit; haltija. · elf (mythical, supernatural being)
çekim: çoğul haltiat · tamlayan haltian
köken: An archaic spelling of haltija. The sense “elf” was probably first used by Finnish translator Kersti Juva when translating the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.
köken: Uncertain; possibly from a reduction of agheasmă (“holy water”) (cf. the variant aiasmă), in that it was believed to ward off apparitions, and is thus used euphemistically; compare the expressions cruce-n casă or bată-l crucea, which refer to the Devil. Other proposed etymologies are less likely, such as Slavic jazva ("wound"), old German ethma ("spirit").
köken: Inherited from Malay hantu, from Proto-Malayic *hantu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qanitu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaNiCu. * False cognate of English haunt (typically misunderstood in sense of rumah hantu (“haunted house”) or in verb sense menghantui (“to haunt”))
From Occitan farfadet, from fadet, by addition of the expressive affix particle far- → see farfouiller,[1] with influence from Italian farfarello or Arabic فرفار, farfar ("inconsistent, fickle"), from farfara ("to agitate, stir")[2][3].