dhampir

• dhampire, dhampyr, damphyr, dunpeal, dampiel

Borrowed from Albanian dhampir.

dhampir (plural dhampirs)

1. (mythology, fiction) A half-human, half-vampire hybrid.

Compound formation of dham, Gheg variant of dhëmb (“tooth”) + pir, participle of pi (“to drink”), literally meaning 'that who drinks through his/her teeth'.

Alternatively, Skok lists it as borrowed from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr, from Proto-Slavic *ǫpyrь.

• IPA^(key): /ðamˈpiɾ/, [ðamˈpiɹ]

dhampir m (definite singular dhampiri)

1. The child of a vampire father and human mother.

• → English: dhampir, dhampire, dhampyr, damphyr, dunpeal, dampiel

• Skok, Petar (1973) Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 3, Zagreb: JAZU, page 564