siren

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪəɹən/
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• General-American: /ˈsaɪɹən/
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• rhymes with -aɪəɹən
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• CMU ARPABET: S AY1 R AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English siren, from Old French sereine and Latin Sīrēn, Sīrēna, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn). The mammalian sense was first attested in French in Dominique Bouhours, Les entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugène, in 1671. The aquatic salamander sense was originally introduced by Linnaeus in 1766, for a genus of his reptiles.

The name was intended to be Syren, from Swedish syren (“lilac”), but this was "corrected" by the US Post Office to Siren, who thought the name applied for was a misspelling.

147 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: sirenë — nymph of Greek mythology
• Albanian: gjysmëzog — nymph of Greek mythology
• Arabic: سِيرَانَة (sīrāna) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Armenian: ծովահարս (covahars) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Asturian: serena — nymph of Greek mythology
• Asturian: sirena — nymph of Greek mythology
• Azerbaijani: pəri — nymph of Greek mythology
• Belarusian: сірэ́на (siréna) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Bulgarian: сире́на (siréna) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Catalan: sirena — nymph of Greek mythology
• Chinese Mandarin: 塞壬 (sàirén) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Chinese Mandarin: 女海妖 (nǚhǎiyāo) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Chinese Mandarin: 賽蓮 /赛莲 (sàilián) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Danish: sirene — nymph of Greek mythology
• Dutch: sirene — nymph of Greek mythology
• Esperanto: sireno — nymph of Greek mythology
• Finnish: seireeni — nymph of Greek mythology
• French: sirène — nymph of Greek mythology
• Galician: serea — nymph of Greek mythology
• German: Sirene — nymph of Greek mythology
• Greek: σειρήνα (seirína) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Greek: Σειρήνα (Seirína) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Ancient Greek: Σειρήν (Seirḗn) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Hebrew: סִּירֵנה (siréna) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Hungarian: szirén — nymph of Greek mythology
• Ido: sireno — nymph of Greek mythology
• Irish: Síréana — nymph of Greek mythology
• Italian: sirena — nymph of Greek mythology
• Japanese: セイレーン (seirēn) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Kazakh: сирена (sirena) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Korean: 세이렌 (seiren) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Kyrgyz: сирена (sirena) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Latin: Sīrēn — nymph of Greek mythology
• Latvian: sirēna — nymph of Greek mythology
• Lithuanian: sirenà — nymph of Greek mythology
• Norwegian Bokmål: sirene — nymph of Greek mythology
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sirene — nymph of Greek mythology
• Iranian Persian: سیرِن (siren) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Polish: syrena — nymph of Greek mythology
• Portuguese: sereia — nymph of Greek mythology
• Portuguese: sirena — nymph of Greek mythology
• Punjabi: ਸਾਇਰਨ (sāiran) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Russian: сире́на (siréna) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Serbo-Croatian: сирена — nymph of Greek mythology
• Serbo-Croatian: sirena — nymph of Greek mythology
• Spanish: sirena — nymph of Greek mythology
• Swedish: siren — nymph of Greek mythology
• Thai: ไซเรน (sai-reen) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Ukrainian: сире́на (syréna) — nymph of Greek mythology
• Vietnamese: tiên chim — nymph of Greek mythology
• Welsh: cyfareddwraig — nymph of Greek mythology
• Welsh: cyfareddwragedd — nymph of Greek mythology
• Albanian: sirenë — device for making a sound alarm
• Arabic: صَفّارَة (ṣaffāra) — device for making a sound alarm
• Armenian: սիրեն (siren) — device for making a sound alarm
• Asturian: serena — device for making a sound alarm
• Asturian: sirena — device for making a sound alarm
• Azerbaijani: sirena — device for making a sound alarm
• Belarusian: сірэ́на (siréna) — device for making a sound alarm
• Bulgarian: сире́на (siréna) — device for making a sound alarm
• Catalan: sirena — device for making a sound alarm
• Chinese Mandarin: 汽笛 (qìdí) — device for making a sound alarm
• Chinese Mandarin: 警報器 /警报器 (jǐngbàoqì) — device for making a sound alarm
• Czech: siréna — device for making a sound alarm
• Danish: sirene — device for making a sound alarm
• Dutch: sirene — device for making a sound alarm
• Esperanto: sireno — device for making a sound alarm
• Estonian: sireen — device for making a sound alarm
• Finnish: sireeni — device for making a sound alarm
• French: sirène — device for making a sound alarm
• Galician: sirena — device for making a sound alarm
• Georgian: სირენა (sirena) — device for making a sound alarm
• German: Sirene — device for making a sound alarm
• Greek: σειρήνα (seirína) — device for making a sound alarm
• Hebrew: אַזְעָקָה (azaká) — device for making a sound alarm
• Hungarian: sziréna — device for making a sound alarm
• Icelandic: sírena — device for making a sound alarm
• Ido: sireno — device for making a sound alarm
• Indonesian: sirene — device for making a sound alarm
• Irish: bonnán — device for making a sound alarm
• Italian: sirena — device for making a sound alarm
• Japanese: サイレン (sairen) — device for making a sound alarm
• Japanese: 警笛 (keiteki) — device for making a sound alarm
• Japanese: 警報器 (keihōki) — device for making a sound alarm
• Japanese: 警報機 (keihōki) — device for making a sound alarm
• Japanese: 号笛 (gōteki) — device for making a sound alarm
• Kazakh: гудок (gudok) — device for making a sound alarm
• Korean: 사이렌 (sairen) — device for making a sound alarm
• Korean: 경보기 (gyeongbogi) — device for making a sound alarm
• Latvian: sirēna — device for making a sound alarm
• Lithuanian: sirenà — device for making a sound alarm
• Maltese: sirena — device for making a sound alarm
• Māori: haona whakatūpato — device for making a sound alarm
• Norwegian Bokmål: sirene — device for making a sound alarm
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sirene — device for making a sound alarm
• Iranian Persian: آژیر (âžir) — device for making a sound alarm
• Polish: syrena — device for making a sound alarm
• Portuguese: sirene — device for making a sound alarm
• Portuguese: sirena — device for making a sound alarm
• Romanian: sirenă — device for making a sound alarm
• Russian: сире́на (siréna) — device for making a sound alarm
• Russian: гудо́к (gudók) — device for making a sound alarm
• Scottish Gaelic: dùdach — device for making a sound alarm
• Serbo-Croatian: сире́на — device for making a sound alarm
• Serbo-Croatian: siréna — device for making a sound alarm
• Spanish: sirena — device for making a sound alarm
• Swahili: kingora — device for making a sound alarm
• Swedish: siren — device for making a sound alarm
• Tajik: ожир (ožir) — device for making a sound alarm
• Tajik: бурғу (burġu) — device for making a sound alarm
• Thai: ไซเรน (sai-reen) — device for making a sound alarm
• Turkish: siren — device for making a sound alarm
• Ukrainian: сире́на (syréna) — device for making a sound alarm
• Uzbek: sirena — device for making a sound alarm
• Vietnamese: còi máy — device for making a sound alarm
• Vietnamese: còi điện — device for making a sound alarm
• Vietnamese: xi-ren — device for making a sound alarm
• Finnish: pilli — musical instrument
• Polish: gwizdek — musical instrument
• Bulgarian: прелъсти́телка (prelǎstítelka) — dangerously seductive woman
• Catalan: sirena — dangerously seductive woman
• Dutch: sirene — dangerously seductive woman
• Esperanto: sireno — dangerously seductive woman
• Finnish: seireeni — dangerously seductive woman
• French: sirène — dangerously seductive woman
• Greek: σειρήνα (seirína) — dangerously seductive woman
• Ido: sireno — dangerously seductive woman
• Irish: banchealgaire — dangerously seductive woman
• Japanese: 妖女 (yōjo) — dangerously seductive woman
• Japanese: 妖婦 (yōfu) — dangerously seductive woman
• Korean: 요부 (yobu) — dangerously seductive woman
• Polish: syrena — dangerously seductive woman
• Portuguese: sereia — dangerously seductive woman
• Russian: сире́на (siréna) — dangerously seductive woman
• Russian: соблазни́тельница (soblaznítelʹnica) — dangerously seductive woman
• Russian: обольсти́тельница (obolʹstítelʹnica) — dangerously seductive woman
• Russian: обворожи́тельница (obvorožítelʹnica) — dangerously seductive woman
• Russian: прельсти́тельница (prelʹstítelʹnica) — dangerously seductive woman
• Serbo-Croatian: сире́на — dangerously seductive woman
• Serbo-Croatian: siréna — dangerously seductive woman
• Finnish: mutalisko — salamander
• French: sirène — salamander
• Polish: syrena — salamander
• Serbo-Croatian: сирен — salamander
• Serbo-Croatian: siren — salamander
• Finnish: sireenieläin — mammal
• Polish: syrena — mammal