You can’t talk about Halloween without the monsters that spawned an entire genre! Mysterious brooding creatures who thirst for human blood, rituals for identifying vampires differ across the continent – as do the suggested ways to protect yourself from their advances…
Whether you like them old school, aristocratic Gothic monsters or more modern, moody and glittery, here is how to say vampire in the 50 languages of Europe in a Day!
- Albanian – Vampir
- Arabic – مصاص دماء (Masas dima)
- Armenian – վամպիր (Vampir)
- Azerbaijani – Vampir
- Basque – Banpiro
- Belarusian – Вампір (Vampir)
- Bulgarian – Вампир (Vampir)
- Catalan – Vampir
- Croatian – Vampir
- Czech – Upír
- Danish – Vampyr
- Dutch – Vampier
- Estonian – Vampiir
- Faroese – Vampýr
- Finnish – Vampyyri
- French – Vampire
- Georgian – ვამპირი (Vamp’iri)
- German – Vampir
- Greek – βαμπίρ (Vampír)
- Greenlandic – Vampyri
- Hungarian – Vámpír
- Icelandic – Vampíra
- Irish Gaelic – Súmaire fola
- Italian – Vampiro
- Jèrriais – Vampithe
- Latin – Vampyrus
- Latvian – Vampīrs
- Lithuanian – Vampyras
- Low German – Vampir
- Luxembourgish – Vampir
- Macedonian – Вампир (Vampir)
- Maltese – Vampir
- Manx – Sooder folley
- Monégasque – Vampiru
- Northern Sami – Varrajámit*
- Norwegian – Vampyr
- Polish – Wampir
- Portuguese – Vampiro
- Romanian – Vampir
- Russian – Вампир (Vampir)
- Scots Gaelic – Bhampair
- Serbian – Вампир (Vampir)
- Slovak – Upír
- Slovene – Vampir
- Spanish – Vampiro
- Swedish – Vampyr
- Swiss German – Vampir
- Turkish – Vampir
- Ukrainian – Вампір (Vampir)
- Welsh – Fampir
- Northern Sami – Varrajámit was coined by me, ‘blood phantom’
Author: James Scanlan
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