وامپیر

Ottoman Turkish

وامپیر

Etymology

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

Noun

وامپیر • (vampir)

vampire, a mythological creature said to feed on blood
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, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1302
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “vampir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وامپیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2124

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