Valkyrie

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The proper noun Valkyries was attested before the common noun valkyries. See the entry valkyrie for more.

Borrowed from Old Norse valkyrja sg (“chooser of the slain”), plural valkyrjur pl, from Proto-Germanic *walakuzjǭ. Cognate to Old English wælcyrġe. First attested in English as a proper noun (Valkyries) in the 1770s; attested as a common noun (valkyries) since the 1880s.

65 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: walkure — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Albanian: valkyre — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Arabic: فَالْكِيرِي (fālkīrī) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Breton: valkirienn — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Catalan: valquíria — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Chinese Mandarin: 女武神 (nǚ wǔ shén) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Chinese Mandarin: 瓦尔基里 (wá ér jī lǐ) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Chuvash: валькири (valʹkiri) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Czech: valkýra — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Danish: valkyrie — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Dutch: walkure — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Esperanto: valkirio — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Estonian: valküür — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Faroese: valkyrja — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Finnish: valkyria — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• French: valkyrie — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Galician: valquiria — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Georgian: ვალკირია (valḳiria) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• German: Walküre — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Bavarian German: Walküre — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Greek: βαλκυρία (valkyría) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Hebrew: ולקיריה — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Hungarian: valkűr — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Icelandic: valkyrja — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Italian: valchiria — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Italian: walkiria — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Italian: walchiria — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Japanese: ワルキューレ (warukyūre) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Japanese: 戦乙女 (ikusaotome) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Japanese: 戦女神 (ikusamegami) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Japanese: ヴァルキュリヤ (varukyuriya) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Japanese: ヴァルキューレ (varukyūre) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Japanese: ヴァルキリー (varukirī) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Japanese: 戦乙女 (sen'otome) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Japanese: 女武神 (on'nabushin) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Japanese: 女武神 (jobushin) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Korean: 발키리 (balkiri) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Korean: 왈퀴리아 (walkwiria) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Latvian: valkīras — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Lithuanian: valkirijos — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Macedonian: валки́рија (valkírija) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Macedonian: валки́ра (valkíra) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Norwegian Bokmål: valkyrje — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Norwegian Nynorsk: valkyrje — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Old Norse: valkyrja — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Persian: والکیری (vâlkiri) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Polish: walkiria — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Portuguese: valquíria — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Romanian: walkirie — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Russian: вальки́рия (valʹkírija) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Serbo-Croatian: valkíre — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Serbo-Croatian: валки́ра — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Serbo-Croatian: валки́ре — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Serbo-Croatian: valkíra — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Serbo-Croatian: valkíre — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Slovak: valkýra — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Slovene: valkira — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Spanish: valquiria — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Spanish: valkiria — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Swedish: valkyria — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Tagalog: balkirya — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Tamil: வால்கெய்ரி (vālkeyri) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Thai: วาลคิรี — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Turkish: valkür — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
• Ukrainian: валькирія (valʹkyrija) — any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin