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"text": "→ Arabic: إِلْف (ʔilf)"
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"2": "elf",
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"expansion": "→ French: elfe",
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"2": "Elf",
"3": "Elfe",
"bor": "1"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ German: Elf, Elfe"
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"1": "ja",
"2": "エルフ",
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"tr": "erufu"
},
"expansion": "→ Japanese: エルフ (erufu)",
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}
],
"text": "→ Japanese: エルフ (erufu)"
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"2": "엘프",
"bor": "1"
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}
],
"text": "→ Korean: 엘프 (elpeu)"
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"2": "эльф",
"bor": "1"
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"expansion": "→ Russian: эльф (elʹf)",
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}
],
"text": "→ Russian: эльф (elʹf)"
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"2": "ельф",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Ukrainian: ельф (elʹf)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Ukrainian: ельф (elʹf)"
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"ref": "1579, E. K., “[Iune. Ægloga Sexta.] Glosse.”, in Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 25, recto:",
"text": "[…] if theyr children at any time vvere frowarde and vvanton, they would ſay to them that the Guelfe or the Gibeline came. VVhich vvords novve from them (as many thinge els) be come into our vſage, and for Guelfes and Gibelines, we ſay Elfes & Goblins.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 433:",
"text": "The man whom heauens haue ordaynd to bee / The ſpouſe of Britomart, is Arthegall: / He wonneth in the land of Fayeree, / Yet is no Fary borne, ne ſib at all / To Elfes, but ſprong of ſeed terreſtriall, / And whylome by falſe Faries ſtolne away, / Whyles yet in infant cradle he did crall; / Ne other to himſelfe is knowne this day, / But that he by an Elfe was gotten of a Fay.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Terrors of the Night or, A Discourse of Apparitions, London: […] Iohn Danter for William Iones, […]:",
"text": "Their Robbin-good-fellowes, Elfes, Fairies, Hobgoblins of our latter age, which idolatrous former daies and the fantasticall world of Greece ycleaped Fawnes, Satyres, Dryades & Hamadryades, did most of their merry prankes in the Night.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:",
"text": "Every elf, and fairy sprite, / Hop as light as bird from brier.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1649, ΕΙΚΩΝ Ἡ ΠΙΣΤΗ. Or, The Faithfull Pourtraicture of a Loyall Subject, in Vindication of ΕΙΚΏΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΉ. […], page 16:",
"text": "[…] I had rather have a Child which my Wife ſhould bring me, though by another man, then to have a Changeling brought me by a company of Fairies, Elfs and Goblins: […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1657, Peter Heylyn, Cosmographie in Four Books. Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, and All the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles Thereof., 2nd edition, London: […] Henry Seile, […], page 131:",
"text": "The quarrel ſpreading into parties, called the Guelfs and the Gibellines, became at laſt the wonder and amazement of all good people: inſomuch as ſome are of opinion, that the fiction of the Elfs and Goblins, wherewith we uſe to fright young children, was derived from hence.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1678, The Shepherds Calendar: Containing Twelve Æglogues, Proportionable to the Twelve Months. […], London: […] Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, […], page 26:",
"text": "The opinion of Fairies and Elfs is very old, and yet ſticketh very religiously in the minds of ſome. But to root that rank opinion of Elfs out of mens hearts, the truth is, that there be no ſuch things, nor yet the ſhadows of the things, but only by a ſort of bald Friers and knaviſh ſhavelings ſo faigned; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "a. 1690, William Cleland, A Collection of Several Poems and Verses, Composed upon Various Occasions, published 1697, page 59:",
"text": "For there and ſeveral other places / About mill dams and green brae faces, / Both Elrich, Elfs and Brownies ſtayed, / And Green gown’d Farries daunc’d and played; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1700, [John] Dryden, “The Wife of Bath Her Tale [by Geoffrey Chaucer]”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 479:",
"text": "IN Days of Old when Arthur fill’d the Throne, / Whoſe Acts and Fame to Foreign Lands were blown; / The King of Elfs and little Fairy Queen / Gamboll’d on Heaths, and danc’d on ev’ry Green.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1717, Laurence Eusden, “Book IV. [The Transformation of the Theban Matrons.]”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 127:",
"text": "This Juno heard; And ſhall ſuch Elfs, ſhe cry’d, / Diſpute my Juſtice, or my Pow’r deride?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1760, Andrew Brice, “TUSCANY”, in The Grand Gazetteer; or, Topographic Dictionary, &c., page 1322, column 1:",
"text": "[…]the Devaſtations under the Goths, Guelphs, and Gibelines [whence ſome would derive the Terms of Elfs (or Elves) or Fairies, and Goblins (or Hobgoblins) or Spectres, &c.] […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1802, J[ames] Sibbald, “Glossary; or An Explanation of Ancient Scottish Words”, in Chronicle of Scottish Poetry; from the Thirteenth Century, to the Union of the Crowns: To Which Is Added a Glossary, volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [F]or J. Sibbald, […], [b]y C. Stewart & Co. […]:",
"text": "Farefolkis, fairies, elfs, or elves; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1850, Matthew Stewart, Remarks on the Subject of Language, with Some Observations in the Form of Notes, Illustrative of the Information Which Language May Afford of the History and Opinions of Mankind, London: […] Richard and John Edward Taylor, […], for, […] the Author, page 14:",
"text": "These Picts are the Clan Alpin, the Alps, or Elfs or Elves,—[…]",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Elf-Child and the Minister”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 130:",
"text": "Prithee, young one, who art thou, and what has ailed thy mother to bedizen thee in this strange fashion? Art thou a Christian child,—ha? Dost know thy catechism? Or art thou one of those naughty elfs or fairies, whom we thought to have left behind us, with other relics of Papistry, in merry old England?",
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},
{
"ref": "1852, William Bell, Shakespeare’s Puck, and His Folkslore, Illustrated from the Superstitions of All Nations, but More Especially from the Earliest Religion and Rites of Northern Europe and the Wends, London, page 58:",
"text": "The next species of these airy nothings are the elfs, or elves; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1868, S[abine] Baring-Gould, “The Piper of Hameln”, in Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, second series, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co.; London: Rivingtons, page 173:",
"text": "The Arbhus became in Teutonic mythology the Alben, Elben or Elfen, our Elfs, and in Scandinavian the Alfar.",
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{
"ref": "1868, David Hume, William Cooke Stafford, The History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time; Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources, volume I, London, New York, N.Y.: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, page 53, column 1:",
"text": "The elfs or elves were inhabitants of the fields and groves, the progenitors of the fairies of the middle ages; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1877, Sidney Lanier, “The Hard Times in Elfland. A Story of Christmas Eve.”, in [Mary Lanier], editor, Poems of Sidney Lanier, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1884, page 159:",
"text": "Since you’ve been out, the news arrives / The Elfs’ Insurance Company’s gone.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1879, William Henderson, “Index”, in Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders. […], London: […] [F]or the Folk-Lore Society by W. Satchell, Peyton and Co., […], page 364:",
"text": "Eve, Danish legend of her concealing her unwashed children, from whom come elfs, trolls, &c.",
"type": "quote"
},
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"ref": "1889 May, “[Literary Notices.] The Folk-Lore of Plants. By T. F. Thiselton Dyer. […]”, in Popular Science, page 128, column 1:",
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"ref": "1579, E. K., “[Iune. Ægloga Sexta.] Glosse.”, in Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 25, recto:",
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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 433:",
"text": "The man whom heauens haue ordaynd to bee / The ſpouſe of Britomart, is Arthegall: / He wonneth in the land of Fayeree, / Yet is no Fary borne, ne ſib at all / To Elfes, but ſprong of ſeed terreſtriall, / And whylome by falſe Faries ſtolne away, / Whyles yet in infant cradle he did crall; / Ne other to himſelfe is knowne this day, / But that he by an Elfe was gotten of a Fay.",
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"ref": "1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Terrors of the Night or, A Discourse of Apparitions, London: […] Iohn Danter for William Iones, […]:",
"text": "Their Robbin-good-fellowes, Elfes, Fairies, Hobgoblins of our latter age, which idolatrous former daies and the fantasticall world of Greece ycleaped Fawnes, Satyres, Dryades & Hamadryades, did most of their merry prankes in the Night.",
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"ref": "c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:",
"text": "Every elf, and fairy sprite, / Hop as light as bird from brier.",
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"ref": "1649, ΕΙΚΩΝ Ἡ ΠΙΣΤΗ. Or, The Faithfull Pourtraicture of a Loyall Subject, in Vindication of ΕΙΚΏΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΉ. […], page 16:",
"text": "[…] I had rather have a Child which my Wife ſhould bring me, though by another man, then to have a Changeling brought me by a company of Fairies, Elfs and Goblins: […]",
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"ref": "1657, Peter Heylyn, Cosmographie in Four Books. Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, and All the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles Thereof., 2nd edition, London: […] Henry Seile, […], page 131:",
"text": "The quarrel ſpreading into parties, called the Guelfs and the Gibellines, became at laſt the wonder and amazement of all good people: inſomuch as ſome are of opinion, that the fiction of the Elfs and Goblins, wherewith we uſe to fright young children, was derived from hence.",
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"ref": "1678, The Shepherds Calendar: Containing Twelve Æglogues, Proportionable to the Twelve Months. […], London: […] Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, […], page 26:",
"text": "The opinion of Fairies and Elfs is very old, and yet ſticketh very religiously in the minds of ſome. But to root that rank opinion of Elfs out of mens hearts, the truth is, that there be no ſuch things, nor yet the ſhadows of the things, but only by a ſort of bald Friers and knaviſh ſhavelings ſo faigned; […]",
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"ref": "a. 1690, William Cleland, A Collection of Several Poems and Verses, Composed upon Various Occasions, published 1697, page 59:",
"text": "For there and ſeveral other places / About mill dams and green brae faces, / Both Elrich, Elfs and Brownies ſtayed, / And Green gown’d Farries daunc’d and played; […]",
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"ref": "1700, [John] Dryden, “The Wife of Bath Her Tale [by Geoffrey Chaucer]”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 479:",
"text": "IN Days of Old when Arthur fill’d the Throne, / Whoſe Acts and Fame to Foreign Lands were blown; / The King of Elfs and little Fairy Queen / Gamboll’d on Heaths, and danc’d on ev’ry Green.",
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"ref": "1717, Laurence Eusden, “Book IV. [The Transformation of the Theban Matrons.]”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 127:",
"text": "This Juno heard; And ſhall ſuch Elfs, ſhe cry’d, / Diſpute my Juſtice, or my Pow’r deride?",
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"ref": "1760, Andrew Brice, “TUSCANY”, in The Grand Gazetteer; or, Topographic Dictionary, &c., page 1322, column 1:",
"text": "[…]the Devaſtations under the Goths, Guelphs, and Gibelines [whence ſome would derive the Terms of Elfs (or Elves) or Fairies, and Goblins (or Hobgoblins) or Spectres, &c.] […]",
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"ref": "1802, J[ames] Sibbald, “Glossary; or An Explanation of Ancient Scottish Words”, in Chronicle of Scottish Poetry; from the Thirteenth Century, to the Union of the Crowns: To Which Is Added a Glossary, volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [F]or J. Sibbald, […], [b]y C. Stewart & Co. […]:",
"text": "Farefolkis, fairies, elfs, or elves; […]",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1850, Matthew Stewart, Remarks on the Subject of Language, with Some Observations in the Form of Notes, Illustrative of the Information Which Language May Afford of the History and Opinions of Mankind, London: […] Richard and John Edward Taylor, […], for, […] the Author, page 14:",
"text": "These Picts are the Clan Alpin, the Alps, or Elfs or Elves,—[…]",
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"ref": "1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Elf-Child and the Minister”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 130:",
"text": "Prithee, young one, who art thou, and what has ailed thy mother to bedizen thee in this strange fashion? Art thou a Christian child,—ha? Dost know thy catechism? Or art thou one of those naughty elfs or fairies, whom we thought to have left behind us, with other relics of Papistry, in merry old England?",
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"ref": "1852, William Bell, Shakespeare’s Puck, and His Folkslore, Illustrated from the Superstitions of All Nations, but More Especially from the Earliest Religion and Rites of Northern Europe and the Wends, London, page 58:",
"text": "The next species of these airy nothings are the elfs, or elves; […]",
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"ref": "1868, S[abine] Baring-Gould, “The Piper of Hameln”, in Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, second series, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co.; London: Rivingtons, page 173:",
"text": "The Arbhus became in Teutonic mythology the Alben, Elben or Elfen, our Elfs, and in Scandinavian the Alfar.",
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"ref": "1868, David Hume, William Cooke Stafford, The History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time; Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources, volume I, London, New York, N.Y.: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, page 53, column 1:",
"text": "The elfs or elves were inhabitants of the fields and groves, the progenitors of the fairies of the middle ages; […]",
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"ref": "1877, Sidney Lanier, “The Hard Times in Elfland. A Story of Christmas Eve.”, in [Mary Lanier], editor, Poems of Sidney Lanier, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1884, page 159:",
"text": "Since you’ve been out, the news arrives / The Elfs’ Insurance Company’s gone.",
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"ref": "1879, William Henderson, “Index”, in Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders. […], London: […] [F]or the Folk-Lore Society by W. Satchell, Peyton and Co., […], page 364:",
"text": "Eve, Danish legend of her concealing her unwashed children, from whom come elfs, trolls, &c.",
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"ref": "1889 May, “[Literary Notices.] The Folk-Lore of Plants. By T. F. Thiselton Dyer. […]”, in Popular Science, page 128, column 1:",
"text": "Much of fairy lore clusters around the so-called fairy rings, that is, the green circles in old pastures within which the elfs were supposed to dance at night by the light of the moon.",
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"ref": "1903, Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell, “NAT, s.”, in edited by William Crooke, Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive, London: John Murray, […], page 619, column 2:",
"text": "NAT,[…]; a term applied to all spiritual beings, angels, elfs, demons, or what not, including the gods of the Hindus.",
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"ref": "1917 November, Elizabeth Clendenning Ring, “Florence Earle Coates: Some Phases of Her Life and Poetry”, in The Book News Monthly, volume 36, page 109, column 1:",
"text": "Elfs and fays, from their haunts in the mountains, whistle their eerie ballads above the gray roof of “Dove Cottage,” and dance their ghostly jigs on the huge hearthstone, among whose blazing logs the Fire God paints his immortal canvases, with colorings splendid beyond the dream of man.",
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"ref": "2010, Heilan Yvette Grimes, The Norse Myths, Hollow Earth Publishing, →ISBN, page 254:",
"text": "Alfs [elfs]: Another name for the elfs or elves.",
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],
[
"mythical",
"mythical"
],
[
"supernatural",
"supernatural"
],
[
"being",
"being"
],
[
"human being",
"human being"
],
[
"magic",
"magic"
],
[
"spellcraft",
"spellcraft"
],
[
"clashing",
"clashing"
],
[
"dwarves",
"dwarves"
],
[
"orcs",
"orcs"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Fantasy"
],
"glosses": [
"Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar)."
],
"links": [
[
"fantasy",
"fantasy"
],
[
"álfar",
"álfar"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(fantasy) Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar)."
],
"topics": [
"fantasy"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A very diminutive person; a dwarf."
],
"links": [
[
"diminutive",
"diminutive"
],
[
"dwarf",
"dwarf"
],
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"Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary",
"w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909"
],
[
"G. & C. Merriam",
"w:Merriam-Webster"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"South African English"
],
"glosses": [
"The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)."
],
"links": [
[
"bluefish",
"bluefish"
],
[
"Pomatomus saltatrix",
"Pomatomus saltatrix#Translingual"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(South Africa) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)."
],
"tags": [
"South-Africa"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "ĕlf"
},
{
"ipa": "/ɛlf/"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-elf.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d6/En-us-elf.ogg/En-us-elf.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/En-us-elf.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛlf"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "hostile",
"sense": "supernatural creature",
"word": "goblin"
},
{
"english": "small, mischievous",
"sense": "supernatural creature",
"word": "fairy"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "elve"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"word": "elf"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"word": "精靈"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jīnglíng",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"word": "精灵"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "álf"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "elver"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"word": "valohaltia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfe"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfo"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alfus"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alv"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "alʹv",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "альв"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "elʹf",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "эльф"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "erfu"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "erfa"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alv"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "älva"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"word": "alf"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "alʹv",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "альв"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "elʹf",
"sense": "Norse mythology: luminous spirit dwelling in Álfheim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ельф"
},
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "elf"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʔālf",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "آلْف"
},
{
"code": "bar",
"lang": "Bavarian",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "Åip"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "elf",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "елф"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elf"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "精靈"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jīnglíng",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "精灵"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elf"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "alf"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "elf"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "alf"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "elfo"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "haldjas"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "haltia"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "tonttu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "keiju"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "peikko"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "maahinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfe"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lutin"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "farfadet"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ouva"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "elpi",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "ელფი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Elfe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Elf"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Elb"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Elbe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Alb"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Alp"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Elbin"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Elfe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Elfin"
},
{
"code": "gmh",
"lang": "Middle High German",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "elbe"
},
{
"code": "gmh",
"lang": "Middle High German",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "alb"
},
{
"code": "gmh",
"lang": "Middle High German",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "alp"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "xotikó",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ξωτικό"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "elf",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "אלף"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "dev",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "देव"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "apsarā",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "अप्सरा"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "elph",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "एल्फ"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "elf",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "एल्फ़"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "manó"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "elf"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "tündér"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "tünde"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "álfur"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "lucharachán"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ealbh"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfo"
},
{
"alt": "ようせい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yōsei",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "妖精"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "erufu",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "エルフ"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "elpeu",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "엘프"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "yojeong",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "요정"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alfus"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfs"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "elfa"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfas"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "elfė"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vílenik",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ви́леник"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "džúdže",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "џу́џе"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "elf",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "елф"
},
{
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "nanu"
},
{
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "elf"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "elpha",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "एल्फ"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alv"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "ielf"
},
{
"code": "goh",
"lang": "Old High German",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "alp"
},
{
"code": "non",
"lang": "Old Norse",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "álfr"
},
{
"code": "osx",
"lang": "Old Saxon",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "alf"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "elf",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "الف"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "vorujak",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "وروجک"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elf"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfo"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "elf"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "elʹf",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "эльф"
},
{
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "eemock"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sìthiche"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "luspardan"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tàcharan"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "патуљак"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "вилељак"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "patuljak"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "vilenjak"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "erfu"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "donni di casa"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "škriatok"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "duende"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "kibwengo"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"word": "elf"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "elʹf",
"sense": "mythical, supernatural being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ельф"
},
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "fantasy: magical, typically forest-guarding creature",
"word": "elf"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "fantasy: magical, typically forest-guarding creature",
"word": "精靈"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jīnglíng",
"sense": "fantasy: magical, typically forest-guarding creature",
"word": "精灵"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "fantasy: magical, typically forest-guarding creature",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elf"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fantasy: magical, typically forest-guarding creature",
"word": "haltia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "fantasy: magical, typically forest-guarding creature",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "elfe"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "fantasy: magical, typically forest-guarding creature",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ouva"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "fantasy: magical, typically forest-guarding creature",
"word": "elf"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "fantasy: magical, typically forest-guarding creature",
"word": "tünde"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "fantasy: magical, typically forest-guarding creature",
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"word": "elfo"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "fantasy: magical, typically forest-guarding creature",
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"word": "alfus"
},
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"sense": "fantasy: magical, typically forest-guarding creature",
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"Andrew Brice",
"Edmund Spenser",
"John Dryden",
"Laurence Eusden",
"Nathaniel Hawthorne",
"Oliver and Boyd",
"Paul Laurence Dunbar",
"Peter Heylyn",
"Sabine Baring-Gould",
"Sidney Lanier",
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"word": "dark elf & light elf"
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{
"word": "fairy"
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{
"word": "brownie"
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{
"word": "dwarf"
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{
"word": "hobbit"
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{
"word": "Eldar"
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"ref": "c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):",
"text": "My face I'll grime with filth, blanket my loins, elf all my hairs in knots, and with presented nakedness outface the winds and persecutions of the sky.",
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"To twist into elflocks (of hair); to mat."
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"(now rare) To twist into elflocks (of hair); to mat."
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