rusalka

See also: rusałka

English

Etymology

From Russian руса́лка (rusálka, “mermaid, siren”)

Noun

rusalka (plural rusalkas or rusalky or rusalki)

(Slavic mythology) A female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths underwater.
- 2009 March 1, Alastair Macaulay, “What Do Aquawomen Want?”, in New York Times‎:
  She is now a rusalka, a water spirit; in revenge she sends their daughter, a rusalochka, to lure him into the water.

Hypernyms

siren

Translations

female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths

Arabic: رُوسَالْكَا‎ f (rūsālkā)
Belarusian: руса́лка f (rusálka)
Bulgarian: руса́лка (bg) f (rusálka)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 魯薩爾卡, 鲁萨尔卡 (lǔsà'ěrkǎ)
Czech: rusalka (cs) f
Dutch: roesalka f, rusalka f
Finnish: rusalka
French: roussalka (fr) f
German: Rusalka f, Russalka f
Greek: ρουσάλκα f (rousálka)
Italian: rusalka f
Japanese: ルサールカ (rusāruka)

Korean: 루살카 (rusalka)
Macedonian: русалка f (rusalka)
Polish: rusałka (pl) f
Portuguese: rusalka f
Russian: руса́лка (ru) f (rusálka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: русалка f

Roman: rusalka (sh) f
Slovak: rusalka f
Slovene: rusalka f
Spanish: rusalka f
Ukrainian: руса́лка (uk) f (rusálka)

Anagrams

kursaal

Portuguese

Noun

rusalka f (plural rusalkas)

(Slavic mythology) rusalka (female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths)

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