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.
köken: Inherited from Old French fae, from Vulgar Latin Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate”). Compare Catalan, Occitan, and Portuguese fada, Italian fata, Spanish hada.
aile: conte de fées, doigts de fée, fée des dents, Fée des étoiles, fée du logis, fée verte, mains de fée, Morgane la fée
eş: maga, donna bellissima, angelo, dea, seduttrice, sirena
köken: From Vulgar Latin Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate”). Compare Catalan, Occitan, and Portuguese fada; French fée; Spanish hada.
sprite or supernatural being in Iranian/Persian mythology opposed to دیوسان (daemon) and دیو (daeva); peri. · fury · fairy
çekim: çoğul پریها
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (plyk' /parīg/, “witch”), ultimately from Old Persian *parikā. Compare Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫛𐫡𐫏𐫃 (pryg), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬐𐬁 (paⁱrikā, “sorceress, witch”), Sogdian [script needed] (pṛʿyk-, “female demoness”) and Old Armenian պարիկ (parik), an Iranian borrowing. Connections that have been proposed include Middle Irish airech (“concubine, wanton woman”), and…
A human-like creature from Swedish mythology similar to a fairy or elf. She is often a young beautiful female, and can sometimes be seen dancing in the mist. Feminine form of alv.
çekim: çoğul älvor · tamlayan älvas
köken: From Old Swedish ælf, from Old Norse alfr, from Proto-Germanic *albiz (“fairy, elf”).
holder, occupant (one who occupies a position) (often used in compound terms) · possessor, occupant (one who has control over, but not necessarily legal ownership of, an item of fixed or movable property) · bearer (one who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment)
çekim: çoğul haltijat · tamlayan haltijan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *haltija(s), borrowed from Proto-Norse *ᚺᚨᛚᛞᛁᛃᚨᛉ (*haldijaʀ, “holder”). The -ija in the modern spelling is by influence from -ja (and words derived with it). Cognate with Estonian haldjas.
A fairy. · A faggot, an especially effeminate homosexual.
çekim: çoğul zâne · tamlayan zâne
köken: Inherited form of Latin Diāna. Compare Aromanian dzãnã (“fairy”), Asturian xana (“child-exchanging nymph”), Sardinian giàna, Old French gene (“fairy”); compare also Albanian zanë. Other survivals of ancient god names in Romance include Spanish huerco, from Latin Orcus, and Old French netun (“marine monster”), from Neptune.
köken: From the same tünd- stem as tündöklik (“to glitter, glisten”) + -ér (noun-forming suffix). The tünd- stem is derived from the tün- stem of tűnik (“to appear, seem”) + -d (frequentative suffix).
From Old Galician-Portuguese fada, from Vulgar Latin *Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from the plural of Latin fātum (“fate”). Compare Galician, Catalan, and Occitan fada, Spanish hada, French fée and Italian fata.