werewolf

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• UK: /ˈwɛːwʊlf/
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• UK: /ˈwɪəwʊlf/
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• US: /ˈwɛəɹwʊlf/
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• US: /ˈwɪəɹwʊlf/
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• US: /ˈwɜɹwʊlf/
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• CMU ARPABET: W EH1 R W UH2 L F Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English werwolf, from Old English werewulf, from Proto-West Germanic *werawulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wer (“man”) + *wulf (“wolf”). Cognate with Dutch weerwolf, Low German Warwulf, German Werwolf, Danish varulv, Swedish varulv, and even possibly Finnish vironsusi. By surface analysis, were- + wolf. * Compare French garou in loup-garou; French dialectal gairou, varou (“werewolf”); Medieval Latin gerulphus, garulphus (“werewolf”); all from Germanic, probably Frankish *werawulf.

142 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: weerwolf — wolflike human
• Albanian: luqerbull — wolflike human
• Albanian: vurkollak — wolflike human
• Albanian: lugat — wolflike human
• Arabic: مُسْتَذْئِب (mustaḏʔib) — wolflike human
• Arabic: مُسْتَذْئِبَة (mustaḏʔiba) — wolflike human
• Armenian: մարդագայլ (mardagayl) — wolflike human
• Belarusian: ваўкала́к (vawkalák) — wolflike human
• Belarusian: пярэ́варацень (pjarévaracjenʹ) — wolflike human
• Belarusian: пе́раварацень (pjéravaracjenʹ) — wolflike human
• Belarusian: скі́дзень (skídzjenʹ) — wolflike human
• Breton: den-bleiz — wolflike human
• Bulgarian: въркола́к (vǎrkolák) — wolflike human
• Catalan: home llop — wolflike human
• Catalan: licantrop — wolflike human
• Champenois: voirloup — wolflike human
• Chinese Cantonese: 狼人 — wolflike human
• Chinese Mandarin: 狼人 (lángrén) — wolflike human
• Cornish: gourvleydh — wolflike human
• Cornish: gourvleydhes — wolflike human
• Czech: vlkodlak — wolflike human
• Danish: varulv — wolflike human
• Dutch: weerwolf — wolflike human
• Esperanto: lupfantomo — wolflike human
• Esperanto: homlupo — wolflike human
• Esperanto: luphomo — wolflike human
• Esperanto: likantropo — wolflike human
• Estonian: libahunt — wolflike human
• Faroese: varúlvur — wolflike human
• Finnish: ihmissusi — wolflike human
• Finnish: vironsusi — wolflike human
• French: loup-garou — wolflike human
• French: garou — wolflike human
• French: lycanthrope — wolflike human
• Galician: lobishome — wolflike human
• Galician: licántropo — wolflike human
• Georgian: მაქცია (makcia) — wolflike human
• Georgian: ლიკანთროპი (liḳantroṗi) — wolflike human
• Georgian: მგელკაცა (mgelḳaca) — wolflike human
• German: Werwolf — wolflike human
• German: Werwölfin — wolflike human
• German: Mannwolf — wolflike human
• German: Lykanthrop — wolflike human
• German: Lykanthropin — wolflike human
• Greek: λυκάνθρωπος (lykánthropos) — wolflike human
• Ancient Greek: λυκάνθρωπος (lukánthrōpos) — wolflike human
• Paraguayan Guarani: luisõ — wolflike human
• Hebrew: אָדָם זְאֵב (adám zeév) — wolflike human
• Hebrew: אַנְשֵׁי זְאֵב (anshéi zeév) — wolflike human
• Hindi: भेड़ियामानव (bheṛiyāmānav) — wolflike human
• Hindi: भड़मानस (bhaṛmānas) — wolflike human
• Hindi: वेरवुल्फ़ (vervulf) — wolflike human
• Hindi: वृकमानव (vŕkmānav) — wolflike human
• Hungarian: farkasember — wolflike human
• Hungarian: vérfarkas — wolflike human
• Icelandic: varúlfur — wolflike human
• Ido: volfohomo — wolflike human
• Ido: likantropo — wolflike human
• Indonesian: manusia serigala — wolflike human
• Interlingua: lycanthropo — wolflike human
• Irish: conriocht — wolflike human
• Irish: fearolc — wolflike human
• Italian: licantropo — wolflike human
• Italian: lupo mannaro — wolflike human
• Italian: uomo-lupo — wolflike human
• Japanese: 狼男 (ōkamiotoko) — wolflike human
• Japanese: 人狼 (jinrō) — wolflike human
• Japanese: 狼人 (rōjin) — wolflike human
• Japanese: 狼人間 (ōkaminingen) — wolflike human
• Korean: 늑대인간 (neukdaein'gan) — wolflike human
• Latgalian: vylkataks — wolflike human
• Latgalian: vylkatece — wolflike human
• Latin: versipellis — wolflike human
• Latin: lycanthropus — wolflike human
• Latin: lupinotuum — wolflike human
• Latin: virlupus — wolflike human
• Latvian: vilkacis — wolflike human
• Latvian: vilkatis — wolflike human
• Latvian: vilkateks — wolflike human
• Latvian: kadars — wolflike human
• Limburgish: waerwouf — wolflike human
• Lithuanian: vilktakas — wolflike human
• Lithuanian: vilkolakis — wolflike human
• Low German: Węrwulf — wolflike human
• Low German: Werwulf — wolflike human
• Low German: Warwulf — wolflike human
• Macedonian: врколак (vrkolak) — wolflike human
• Malay: serigala jadian — wolflike human
• Malay: likantrop — wolflike human
• Manx: conreeaght — wolflike human
• Marathi: वेअरवुल्फ (vearvulpha) — wolflike human
• Mauritian Creole: lougarou — wolflike human
• Mongolian: хүн чоно (xün čono) — wolflike human
• Norman: ouothou — wolflike human
• Norwegian Bokmål: varulv — wolflike human
• Old English: werewulf — wolflike human
• Persian: گرگینه (gorgine) — wolflike human
• Polish: wilkołak — wolflike human
• Polish: likantrop — wolflike human
• Portuguese: lobisomem — wolflike human
• Portuguese: licantropo — wolflike human
• Portuguese: lobanil — wolflike human
• Romanian: vârcolac — wolflike human
• Russian: волкола́к (volkolák) — wolflike human
• Russian: волкула́к (volkulák) — wolflike human
• Russian: волкодла́к (volkodlák) — wolflike human
• Russian: верво́льф (vervólʹf) — wolflike human
• Russian: верву́льф (vervúlʹf) — wolflike human
• Russian: о́боротень (óborotenʹ) — wolflike human
• Russian: ликантро́п (likantróp) — wolflike human
• Russian: верво́лк (vervólk) — wolflike human
• Scottish Gaelic: fear-faol — wolflike human
• Scottish Gaelic: fearolc — wolflike human
• Serbo-Croatian: вуко̀длак — wolflike human
• Serbo-Croatian: vukòdlak — wolflike human
• Slovak: vlkolak — wolflike human
• Slovene: volkodlak — wolflike human
• Lower Sorbian: wjelikoraz — wolflike human
• Upper Sorbian: wjelkoraz — wolflike human
• Spanish: hombre lobo — wolflike human
• Spanish: licántropo — wolflike human
• Spanish: lobisón — wolflike human
• Spanish: lobisome — wolflike human
• Swahili: nusumbwa — wolflike human
• Swahili: mtu-mbwa — wolflike human
• Swedish: varulv — wolflike human
• Thai: มนุษย์หมาป่า (má-nút-mǎa-bpàa) — wolflike human
• Turkish: kurt adam — wolflike human
• Turkish: erbörü — wolflike human
• Ukrainian: вовкула́ка (vovkuláka) — wolflike human
• Ukrainian: пере́вертень (perévertenʹ) — wolflike human
• Ukrainian: вовкула́к (vovkulák) — wolflike human
• Ukrainian: вовку́н (vovkún) — wolflike human
• Vietnamese: người sói — wolflike human
• Vietnamese: ma sói — wolflike human
• Volapük: lükantropan — wolflike human
• Volapük: lupamen — wolflike human
• Volapük: menalupan — wolflike human
• Walloon: leu-waerou — wolflike human
• Walloon: waerleu — wolflike human
• Welsh: bleidd-ddyn — wolflike human
• Yiddish: וואָלקעלאַק (volkelak) — wolflike human