وامپیر
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French vampire, probably from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr and ultimately from Proto-Slavic *ǫpyrь (“vampire”).
Noun edit
وامپیر • (vampir)
- vampire, a mythological creature said to feed on blood
- vampire bat, a blood-sucking bat (Desmodus rotundus)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: vampir
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “vampir”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5093
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “وامپیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1302
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “vampir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وامپیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2124