dragon

fr-noun

dragon m (plural dragons, feminine dragonne)

→ Albanian: dragun

→ Armenian: դրագուն (dragun)

→ Azerbaijani: draqun

→ Bashkir: драгун (dragun)

→ Belarusian: драгун (drahun)

→ Breton: dragun

→ Bulgarian: драгун (dragun)

→ Catalan: dragon

→ Cebuano: dragun

→ Crimean Tatar: dragun

→ Czech: dragoun

→ Danish: dragon

→ English: dragoon

→ Esperanto: dragono

→ Estonian: tragun

→ Gagauz: dragun

→ Georgian: დრაგუნი (draguni)

→ German: Dragoner
→ Dutch: dragonder

→ Greek: δραγόνος (dragónos)

→ Hebrew: דרגון (dragún)

→ Hungarian: dragonyos

→ Icelandic: dragoní

→ Ido: dragono

→ Irish: dragún

→ Japanese: ドラグーン (doragūn)

→ Kazakh: драгун (dragun)

→ Kyrgyz: драгун (dragun)

→ Latvian: dragūns

→ Lithuanian: dragūnas

→ Macedonian: драгун (dragun)

→ Mongolian: драгун (dragun)

→ Norwegian: dragon

→ Occitan: dragon

→ Polish: dragon

→ Romanian: dragon

→ Russian: драгун (dragun)

→ Carpathian Rusyn: драґун (dragun)

→ Serbo-Croatian: dragun / драгун

→ Slovak: dragún

→ Slovene: dragonec

→ Spanish: dragón

→ Swedish: dragon
→ Finnish: rakuuna

→ Tagalog: dragun

→ Tajik: драгун (dragun)

→ Tatar: драгун (drağun)

→ Turkish: dragon

→ Turkmen: dragun

→ Ukrainian: драгун (drahun)

→ Uzbek: dragun

→ Waray-Waray: dragun

→ Welsh: dragŵn

→ Zazaki: dragun

Inherited from Old French dragon, perhaps borrowed from Old Occitan dragon, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Doublet of drac.


gnome

gnome m (plural gnomes, feminine gnomide)

→ Danish: gnom

→ English: gnome

→ Norwegian Bokmål: gnom

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: gnom

From New Latin gnomus, not attested classically. .


lycanthrope

lycanthrope m or f by sense (plural lycanthropes)

From Ancient Greek λυκάνθρωπος (lukánthrōpos, “human-wolf”).


kraken

Borrowed from Norwegian kraken (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry), definite singular of krake (“sea monster”) (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry), both from Old Norse kraki (“sea monster”, literally “something twisted”), from Proto-Germanic *krankaz (“crooked”).


loup-garou

fr-noun

loup-garou m (plural loups-garous, feminine louve-garou)

loups-garous (plural)
louve-garou (feminine)

→ English: loup-garou

Inherited from Old French leu garoul, a pleonastic compound of leu (“wolf”) + garoul (“werewolf”); the latter from garulf, from Frankish *werawulf. Equivalent to loup + -garou.


troll

From Swedish troll, from Old Norse troll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą, from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂-.


troll

troll (inflammatory poster on the Internet)


fantasy

Unadapted borrowing from English fantasy. Doublet of fantaisie.


zombi

fr-noun

zombi m (plural zombis, feminine zombie)

Attested 1832, but the 1765 Encyclopédie (t. 11, p. 82a, s.v. nègre) already has zambys «dieux esprits des tribus africaines».
Borrowed from Haitian Creole zonbi, from a Bantu language.


griffon

Inherited from Old French grifon (grif + -on), from Latin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).

inh+

(mythology) griffin (legendary creature)


triton

Learned borrowing from Latin Trītōn, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek Τρίτων (Trítōn).


hippocampe

Learned borrowing from Latin hippocampus, from Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος (hippókampos), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + κάμπος (kámpos, “sea-monster”).


goule

Borrowed from Arabic غُول (ḡūl, “ghoul, demon”).


philtre

Borrowed from Latin philtrum, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek φίλτρον (phíltron). Unrelated to filtre.

Dans quel philtre, dans quel vin, dans quelle tisane, / Noierons-nous ce vieil ennemi, / Destructeur et gourmand comme la courtisane, / Patient comme la fourmi?

1857, Charles Baudelaire, “L'Irréparable”, in John Collings Squire, transl., Les Fleurs du mal:

What wine, what drug, what philtre known of man / Will drown this ancient foe, / Ruthless and ravenous as a courtesan, / Sure as an ant, and slow?

philter (a kind of potion, charm, or drug intended to make the drinker fall in love with the giver)


gobelin

fr-noun

gobelin m (plural gobelins, feminine gobeline)

Borrowed from Old Northern French gobelin (compare Norman goubelin, Walloon gobelin), possibly a blend of Old Dutch *kobeholdo (“goblin”) (compare Dutch kabouter, German Kobold) and Late Latin cobalus (“mountain sprite”), from Ancient Greek κόβαλος (kóbalos, “rogue, knave; goblin”).


elfe

Borrowed from Swedish älf, from Old Norse alfr, compare Old English ælf. Originated from Indo-European Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰós (“brilliant, shining white”) via Proto-Germanic *albiz (“elf”).


orque

Borrowed from English orc. Doublet of ogre.


centaure

fr-noun

centaure m (plural centaures, feminine centauresse)

centaures (plural)
centauresse (feminine)


chimère

(biology) chimera (organism with cells from two zygotes)


licorne

From Old French unicorne via reanalysis as une icorne (with indefinite article), followed by further reanalysis of the new definite form l'icorne, or from Italian alicorno, variant of liocorno.


régicide

régicide m or f by sense (plural régicides)


petite souris

petite souris f (usually uncountable, plural petites souris)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see petite, souris.


thérianthropie

thérianthropie f (plural thérianthropies)

From Ancient Greek θηρίον (thēríon, “animal”) + ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “human”).


zombifier

zombifier (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
zombifiant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
zombifié (participle past)
zombifie (first-person indicative present singular)
zombifies (indicative present second-person singular)
zombifie (indicative present singular third-person)
zombifions (first-person indicative plural present)
zombifiez (indicative plural present second-person)
zombifient (indicative plural present third-person)
zombifiais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
zombifiais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
zombifiait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
zombifiions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
zombifiiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
zombifiaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
zombifiai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
zombifias (historic indicative past second-person singular)
zombifia (historic indicative past singular third-person)
zombifiâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
zombifiâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
zombifièrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
zombifierai (first-person future indicative singular)
zombifieras (future indicative second-person singular)
zombifiera (future indicative singular third-person)
zombifierons (first-person future indicative plural)
zombifierez (future indicative plural second-person)
zombifieront (future indicative plural third-person)
zombifierais (conditional first-person singular)
zombifierais (conditional second-person singular)
zombifierait (conditional singular third-person)
zombifierions (conditional first-person plural)
zombifieriez (conditional plural second-person)
zombifieraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
zombifie (first-person present singular subjunctive)
zombifies (present second-person singular subjunctive)
zombifie (present singular subjunctive third-person)
zombifiions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
zombifiiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
zombifient (plural present subjunctive third-person)
zombifiasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
zombifiasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
zombifiât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
zombifiassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
zombifiassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
zombifiassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
zombifie (imperative second-person singular)
zombifions (first-person imperative plural)
zombifiez (imperative plural second-person)

From zombi (“zombie”) + -ifier (“-ify”).


harpie

From Latin harpȳia, from Ancient Greek ἅρπυια (hárpuia), from ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to snatch, seize”).

(derogatory) a shrew, a harridan, a harpy

Harpia harpyja
Harpia harpyja#Translingual


moldu

fr-noun

moldu m (plural moldus, feminine moldue)


naïade

From Ancient Greek Νᾱϊάς (Nāïás) (oblique stem Νᾱϊαδ-).


Poudlard

Coined by Jean-François Ménard in Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers (1998), his translation of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997). From pou (“louse”) + lard (“bacon”), based on Hogwarts (hog + wart).

Au collège Poudlard, on apprend la magie avec les manuels de Bathilda Tourdesac ou d’Adalbert Lasornette

1999, Marion Festraëts, Le triomphe de Harry Potter: L'Express:

At Hogwarts school, you learn magic with textbooks by Bathilda Bagshot or Adalbert Waffling

En clair, l’élite des pédagogues de Poudlard décide d’envoyer un mineur à une mort certaine.

2005, Serge Tisseron, Cruauté ordinaire: Le Monde diplomatique:

To put it plainly, the elite of Hogwarts teachers decide to send a minor to a certain death.

La "cape d’invisibilité" de l’apprenti sorcier pourrait bien un jour sortir des murs de l’école de sorcellerie Poudlard et se voir transposée dans notre réalité.

2012, Des physiciens conçoivent une cape d'"invisibilité temporelle": Le Monde:

The apprentice wizard's "invisibility cloak" could one day leave the walls of the school of sorcery Hogwarts and see itself transposed into our reality.

S’il n’y avait la mosquée jouxtant le bâtiment principal, on pourrait se croire à Poudlard, l’école de Harry Potter.

2013, Fabrice Tassel, Pakistan : Une école pour briser le silence: Libération:

If it weren't for the mosque adjoining the main building, one might think one was at Hogwarts, Harry Potter's school.

Hogwarts, the fictional school of magic in the Harry Potter series


serpopard

(Egyptian mythology, Mesopotamian mythology) serpopard (a mythical animal resembling a serpent-necked leopard, known from Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian depictions)


rougarou

(Louisiana, Cajun) Alternative spelling of loup-garou (“werewolf”)


lupeux

From Latin lupus (whence French loup (“wolf”)) + -eux.

suf

whence French <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">loup</i> (“wolf”)

Cette figure que je vous fais passer représente un côté de la face d’un lupeux que j’ai observé il y a quelques années à ma policlinique de Saint-Sauveur. Ce malade était, en outre, remarquable par l’apparition de tubercules lupeux autour de cicatrices d’anciennes gommes scrofuleuses et par l’aspect particulier (en vésicatoire) que présentait l’ulcération d’une partie de son lupus hypertrophique.

1890, Henri Fournier, Journal des maladies cutanées et syphilitiques, volume 2, page 213:

(medicine, obsolete) a person suffering from lupus


phoque-garou

From phoque (“seal”) + -garou (“were-”).


fée des dents

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À Gabriel qui croit encore au père Noël, mais pas à la fée des dents!

2006, Élaine Turgeon, Le père Noël travaille à mon école, Québec Amérique, dedication:

For Gabriel, who still believes in Father Christmas, but not in the tooth fairy!


lamie

From Latin lamia, from Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lámia).


chauve-souris-garou

fr-noun

chauve-souris-garou f (plural chauve-souris-garous)

From chauve-souris (“bat”) + -garou (“were-”), from analogy with loup-garou (“werewolf”).


animal-garou

From animal + -garou (“were-”), by association with loup-garou (“werewolf”).

(fantasy, mythology) wereanimal, werecreature


-garou

From loup-garou (“werewolf”). See also garou.


lion-garou

fr-noun

lion-garou m (plural lions-garous, feminine lionne-garou)

lions-garous (plural)
lionne-garou (feminine)


ours-garou

ours-garou m (plural ours-garous, feminine ourse-garou)

ours-garous (plural)
ourse-garou (feminine)


vache-garou

vache-garou f (plural vaches-garous, masculine bœuf-garou)

vaches-garous (plural)
bœuf-garou (masculine)


bœuf-garou

bœuf-garou m (plural bœufs-garous, feminine vache-garou)

bœufs-garous (plural)
vache-garou (feminine)


requin-garou

From requin (“shark”) + -garou (“were-”).


cochon-garou

cochon-garou m (plural cochons-garous, feminine cochonne-garou)

cochons-garous (plural)
cochonne-garou (feminine)


léopard-garou

léopard-garou m (plural léopards-garous)


louve-garou

louve-garou f (plural louves-garous, masculine loup-garou)

louves-garous (plural)
loup-garou (masculine)

From louve (“wolf”, feminine) + -garou (“were-”).


louveteau-garou

fr-noun

louveteau-garou m (plural louveteaux-garous, feminine louvetelle-garou)

louveteaux-garous (plural)
louvetelle-garou (feminine)

(fantasy, mythology) werewolf cub or pup


panthère-garou

panthère-garou f (plural panthères-garous)


rat-garou

rat-garou m (plural rats-garous, feminine rate-garou)

rats-garous (plural)
rate-garou (feminine)


louvetelle-garou

louvetelle-garou f (plural louvetelles-garous, masculine louveteau-garou)

louvetelles-garous (plural)
louveteau-garou (masculine)

(fantasy, mythology) female werewolf cub or pup


rate-garou

rate-garou f (plural rates-garous, masculine rat-garou)

rates-garous (plural)
rat-garou (masculine)


thérianthrope

thérianthrope m or f (plural thérianthropes)

From Ancient Greek θηρίον (thēríon, “wild beast, animal”) + ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “person, human being”).


thériomorphe

From Ancient Greek θηριόμορφος (thēriómorphos, from θηρίον (thēríon, “animal”) + μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”)). See also thérien and morphe.

der

Une divinité thériomorphe.


Ularu

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) A primordial snake-like creator deity


con tinh

The lustful ghost of a virgin woman (in Vietnamese folklore).


femme-renarde

fr-noun

femme-renarde f (plural femmes-renardes)


ma gia

(Vietnamese folklore) The murderous ghost of an unrecovered drowned person, trying to drown travelers and capsize boats.


ma troi

will o' the wisp (in Vietnamese folklore)


ma lai

A type of evil spirit of Vietnamese folklore


agathodémon

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀγαθοδαίμων (agathodaímōn).


heroic fantasy

Unadapted borrowing from English heroic fantasy.