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.
vampire (mythological creature) · vampire, vampire bat (blood-sucking bat of the subfamily Desmodontinae, includes three species) · common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus (small, leaf-nosed bat native to Latin America)
çekim: çoğul vampyyrit · tamlayan vampyyrin
eş: vampyyrilepakko, verenimijä, verivampyyri
köken: From Swedish vampyr, from German Vampir, from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr.
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.