vampire

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• General-American: /ˈvæm.paɪ.ə(ɹ)/
  Play
• General-American: [ˈvɛ̃ə̯̃m.paɪɚ]
  Play
• Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• rhymes with -aɪə(ɹ)
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: V AE1 M P AY0 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

From French vampire, from German Vampir, via Hungarian from a Slavic word, probably Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr /ва̀мпӣр, from Proto-Slavic *ǫpyrь, further possibly from Proto-Turkic *ōpur (“glutton, witch, evil spirit”), or from native construction. Doublet of dhampir and oupire.

186 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: ахәарҭлаӷь (axwartlağj) — mythological creature
• Abkhaz: аҟәарҭлах (aqwʼartlax) — mythological creature
• Afrikaans: vampier — mythological creature
• Albanian: dhampir — mythological creature
• Arabic: مَصَّاص دِمَاء (maṣṣāṣ dimāʔ) — mythological creature
• Arabic: مَصَّاصَة دِمَاء (maṣṣāṣat dimāʔ) — mythological creature
• Arabic: ڤومپير (vompīr) — mythological creature
• Armenian: վամպիր (vampir) — mythological creature
• Asturian: vampiru — mythological creature
• Azerbaijani: vampir — mythological creature
• Azerbaijani: xortdan — mythological creature
• Bashkir: убыр (ubır) — mythological creature
• Basque: banpiro — mythological creature
• Belarusian: вампі́р (vampír) — mythological creature
• Belarusian: ўпір (wpir) — mythological creature
• Belarusian: упі́р (upír) — mythological creature
• Belarusian: кажа́н (kažán) — mythological creature
• Bengali: ভ্যাম্পায়ার (bhêmpaẏar) — mythological creature
• Bengali: পিশাচ (piśac) — mythological creature
• Bulgarian: вампи́р (vampír) — mythological creature
• Burmese: သွေးစုပ်ဖုတ်ကောင် (swe:cuphputkaung) — mythological creature
• Burmese: သွေးစုပ်လင်းဆွဲ (swe:cuplang:hcwai:) — mythological creature
• Catalan: vampir — mythological creature
• Chechen: убар (ubar) — mythological creature
• Chinese Mandarin: 吸血鬼 (xīxuěguǐ) — mythological creature
• Czech: upír — mythological creature
• Czech: vampýr — mythological creature
• Danish: vampyr — mythological creature
• Dutch: vampier — mythological creature
• Esperanto: vampiro — mythological creature
• Estonian: vampiir — mythological creature
• Finnish: vampyyri — mythological creature
• French: vampire — mythological creature
• Galician: vampiro — mythological creature
• Georgian: ვამპირი (vamṗiri) — mythological creature
• German: Blutsauger — mythological creature
• German: Vampir — mythological creature
• German: Vampyr — mythological creature
• German: Vampirin — mythological creature
• Greek: βαμπίρ (vampír) — mythological creature
• Greek: βρικόλακας (vrikólakas) — mythological creature
• Greek: δράκουλας (drákoulas) — mythological creature
• Greenlandic: vampyri — mythological creature
• Hebrew: עַרְפָּד (arpád) — mythological creature
• Hindi: रक्तचूषक (raktacūṣak) — mythological creature
• Hindi: रक्तशोषक (raktaśoṣak) — mythological creature
• Hindi: रक्तजतूक (raktajtūk) — mythological creature
• Hindi: रक्तपिपासु (raktapipāsu) — mythological creature
• Hindi: रक्तपिशाच (raktapiśāc) — mythological creature
• Hindi: रक्तपिशाचिनी (raktapiśācinī) — mythological creature
• Hindi: ख़ून-आशाम (xūn-āśām) — mythological creature
• Hindi: बैताल (baitāl) — mythological creature
• Hindi: पिशाच (piśāc) — mythological creature
• Hindi: वैंपायर (va͠ipāyar) — mythological creature
• Hungarian: vámpír — mythological creature
• Icelandic: vampíra — mythological creature
• Ido: vampiro — mythological creature
• Indonesian: vampir — mythological creature
• Irish: vaimpír — mythological creature
• Irish: deamhan fola — mythological creature
• Irish: súmaire — mythological creature
• Irish: súmaire fola — mythological creature
• Italian: vampiro — mythological creature
• Japanese: 吸血鬼 (kyūketsuki) — mythological creature
• Japanese: ヴァンパイア (vanpaia) — mythological creature
• Japanese: バンパイア (banpaia) — mythological creature
• Kashmiri: خونہٕ أشیٖن (khōnhụ ạśīn) — mythological creature
• Kazakh: қансімір (qansımır) — mythological creature
• Kazakh: қансорғыш (qansorğyş) — mythological creature
• Khmer: ខ្មោចអាប (khmaoc ʼaap) — mythological creature
• Korean: 흡혈귀 (heuphyeolgwi) — mythological creature
• Korean: 뱀파이어 (baempaieo) — mythological creature
• Central Kurdish: خوێنمژ (xwênmij) — mythological creature
• Kyrgyz: вампир (vampir) — mythological creature
• Lao: ຜີດິບ (phī dip) — mythological creature
• Lao: ຜີປອບ (phī pǭp) — mythological creature
• Lao: ແວມໄພ (wǣm phai) — mythological creature
• Latin: sanguisūga — mythological creature
• Latin: vampyrus — mythological creature
• Latin: striga — mythological creature
• Latvian: vampīrs — mythological creature
• Lithuanian: vampyras — mythological creature
• Lithuanian: vampyrė — mythological creature
• Luxembourgish: Vampir — mythological creature
• Macedonian: ва́мпир (vámpir) — mythological creature
• Malagasy: vampira — mythological creature
• Malay: puntianak — mythological creature
• Marathi: व्हॅम्पायर (vhĕmpāyar) — mythological creature
• Mongolian: вампир (vampir) — mythological creature
• Mongolian: цус сорогч (cus sorogč) — mythological creature
• Navajo: hastiin tsʼíʼiitsoh — mythological creature
• Norwegian Bokmål: vampyr — mythological creature
• Iranian Persian: خونآشام (xun-âšâm) — mythological creature
• Iranian Persian: خون آشام (xun âšâm) — mythological creature
• Polish: wampir — mythological creature
• Polish: upiór — mythological creature
• Polish: wampirzyca — mythological creature
• Polish: wąpierz — mythological creature
• Portuguese: vampiro — mythological creature
• Portuguese: vampira — mythological creature
• Punjabi: ਪਿਸ਼ਾਚ (piśāc) — mythological creature
• Romanian: vampir — mythological creature
• Romanian: vampiră — mythological creature
• Romanian: strigoi — mythological creature
• Romanian: vârcolac — mythological creature
• Romanian: vampiri — mythological creature
• Romanian: strigoaie — mythological creature
• Russian: вампи́р (vampír) — mythological creature
• Russian: вампи́рша (vampírša) — mythological creature
• Russian: упы́рь (upýrʹ) — mythological creature
• Russian: вурдала́к (vurdalák) — mythological creature
• Scottish Gaelic: bhampair — mythological creature
• Serbo-Croatian: ва̀мпӣр — mythological creature
• Serbo-Croatian: вампирка — mythological creature
• Serbo-Croatian: вампирица — mythological creature
• Serbo-Croatian: vàmpīr — mythological creature
• Serbo-Croatian: vampirka — mythological creature
• Serbo-Croatian: vampirica — mythological creature
• Sinhalese: පිසාචයින් (pisācayin) — mythological creature
• Slovak: upír — mythological creature
• Slovak: vampír — mythological creature
• Slovene: vampír — mythological creature
• Lower Sorbian: wampir — mythological creature
• Spanish: vampiro — mythological creature
• Sranan Tongo: asema — mythological creature
• Sumerian: 𒄴𒄩𒊒 (aḫḫaru) — mythological creature
• Swahili: mumiani — mythological creature
• Swahili: vampiri — mythological creature
• Swahili: mnyonya-damu — mythological creature
• Swedish: vampyr — mythological creature
• Tagalog: bampira — mythological creature
• Tamil: ரத்தக் காட்டேரி (rattak kāṭṭēri) — mythological creature
• Tatar: вампир (wampir) — mythological creature
• Tatar: убыр (ubır) — mythological creature
• Telugu: రక్త పిశాచి (rakta piśāci) — mythological creature
• Thai: แวมไพร์ (wɛm-paai) — mythological creature
• Thai: ผีดูดเลือด (pǐi-dùut-lʉ̂ʉat) — mythological creature
• Thai: ผีดิบ (pǐi-dìp) — mythological creature
• Turkish: vampir — mythological creature
• Turkish: vupkan — mythological creature
• Turkish: ubır — mythological creature
• Ottoman Turkish: وامپیر (vampir) — mythological creature
• Turkmen: wampir — mythological creature
• Ukrainian: упи́р (upýr) — mythological creature
• Ukrainian: вампі́р (vampír) — mythological creature
• Urdu: خُون آشام (xūn āśām) — mythological creature
• Urdu: وَیمْپائِر (vaimpāir) — mythological creature
• Uzbek: vampir — mythological creature
• Vietnamese: ma cà rồng — mythological creature
• Volapük: vampir — mythological creature
• Volapük: hivampir — mythological creature
• Volapük: jivampir — mythological creature
• Welsh: fampir — mythological creature
• Yiddish: וואַמפּיר (vampir) — mythological creature
• Asturian: vampiru — bat
• Bulgarian: вампи́р (vampír) — bat
• Czech: vampýr — bat
• Danish: vampyr — bat
• Esperanto: vampirvesperto — bat
• Esperanto: desmodo — bat
• Estonian: vereimeja — bat
• Finnish: vampyyrilepakko — bat
• Finnish: vampyyri — bat
• French: chauve-souris vampire — bat
• German: Vampir — bat
• German: Vampirfledermaus — bat
• Greek: νυχτερίδα (nychterída) — bat
• Greek: βαμπίρ (vampír) — bat
• Hungarian: denevér — bat
• Irish: vaimpír — bat
• Latvian: vampīrsikspārnis — bat
• Portuguese: vampiro — bat
• Portuguese: morcego-vampiro — bat
• Russian: вампи́р (vampír) — bat
• Spanish: vampiro — bat
• Swedish: vampyr — bat
• Tamil: வவ்வால் (vavvāl) — bat
• Turkish: vampir yarasa — bat
• Ottoman Turkish: وامپیر (vampir) — bat
• Ukrainian: вампі́р (vampír) — bat
• Vietnamese: dơi hút máu — bat
• Welsh: fampir — bat
• Bulgarian: изсмуквам (izsmukvam) — to drain of energy or resources
• Bulgarian: изсмуча (izsmuča) — to drain of energy or resources
• Bulgarian: изцеждам (izceždam) — to drain of energy or resources
• Bulgarian: изцедя (izcedja) — to drain of energy or resources