وامپیر

Ottoman Turkish

وامپیر

Etymology

Borrowed from French vampire, probably from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr and ultimately from Proto-Slavic *ǫpyrь (“vampire”).

Noun

وامپیر • (vampir)

1. vampire, a mythological creature said to feed on blood
2. vampire bat, a blood-sucking bat (Desmodus rotundus)

Descendants

• Turkish: vampir

Further reading

• 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