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.
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 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: 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”))
Inherited from Middle French luitin (“mischievous demon”), a variation (with change of suffix) of older luiton, luitun (“marine monster”), itself an alteration (probably after Old French luitier (“to fight”)) of Old French nuiton, which itself was an alteration (after nuit (“night”)) of Old French netun (“marine monster, in rivers and seas”), from Latin Neptunus (“the god Neptune”). Doublet of…