mandrake

English

From mandragora, with -dragora reinterpreted as related to dragon and replaced with native drake.

mandrake (plural mandrakes)

(mythology) A mandragora, a kind of tiny demon immune to fire.
Any plant of the genus Mandragora, certain of which are said to have medicinal properties; the curiously shaped root of these plants has been likened to the shape of a little man, and thus, has attained some mythic significance.

mythology

botany

Arabic: يَبْرُوح‎ (yabrūḥ), لُفَّاح‎ m (luffāḥ), بَيْض الْجِنّ‎ m (bayḍ al-jinn), تُفَّاح الْمَجَانِين‎ m (tuffāḥ al-majānīn), مَانْدْرَاكُورَا‎ (māndrākōrā)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܝܲܒܼܪܘܼܚܵܐ‎ m (yaḇrūḥā)

Hebrew: יַבְרוּחָא‎ m (yaḇrūḥā)
Armenian: մանրագոր (hy) (manragor)
Catalan: mandràgora
Chinese:
Mandarin: 風茄, 风茄 (fēngjiā), 曼德拉草 (màndélācǎo)
Czech: pokřín, pekřín
Danish: alrune
Dutch: mandragora
Finnish: alruuna (fi)
French: mandragore (fr) f
German: Alraune (de) f
Greek: μανδραγόρας (el) m (mandragóras)
Ancient Greek: μανδραγόρας m (mandragóras)
Hebrew: דּוּדָא‎ (he) m (dúda)

Hungarian: mandragóra (hu)
Italian: mandragora
Japanese: マンドラゴラ (ja) (mandoragora)
Latin: mandragora
Maori: manitareki
Norwegian: alruner
Polish: mandragora (pl) f, alrauna (pl) f
Portuguese: mandrágora (pt) f
Romanian: mandragoră (ro) f
Russian: мандраго́ра (ru) f (mandragóra)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мандрагора f, алрауна f, буновина f, надлишка f

Roman: mandragora (sh) f, alrauna (sh) f, bunovina (sh) f, nadliška (sh) f
Spanish: mandrágora (es) f
Swedish: alruna (sv) c
Turkish: adam otu (tr)
Ukrainian: мандраго́ра f (mandrahóra)

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