köken: Inherited from Middle French garou, from Old French garoul, garval, garvalf, garwaf, garwall (Marie de France, c. 1175, Old Northern French), guarou, guaroul, wareu, wareul, warou (“werewolf”), from Frankish *werawulf. OED suggests the French being from Old Norse vargulfr, which however occurs only in the translation of Marie's lay of Bisclavret. In sense 2, back-formation from loup-garou…
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.