Chimera

Etymology
As the mythological beast, a variant case form of, q.v. As an ancient mountain, directly from , from , attested in.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A supposed fire-breathing monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or snake, killed by the hero Bellerophon.
 * 2) * 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 184:
 * CHIMERA, a fabulous monſter...
 * 1)  A fire-spewing mountain in Lycia or Cilicia, presumed to be an ancient name for the Yanartaş region of Turkey's Antalya Province.
 * 2) * 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 184:
 * CHIMERA... The foundation of the fable was, that in Lycia there was a burning mountain, or vulcano, of this name; that the top of this mountain was ſeldom without lions, nor the middle, which had very good graſs, without goats; that ſerpents bred at the bottom, which was marſhy; and that Bellerophon rendered the mountain habitable.
 * , a port town in southern Albania.
 * 1) * 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 184:
 * CHIMÆRA, in geography, a port town of Turky in Europe, ſituated at the entrance of the gulph of Venice, in the province of Epirus, about thirty-two miles north of the city Corfu, near which are the mountains of Chimæra, which divide Epirus from Theſſaly...
 * , the Albanian mountain range near Himara.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: Ximera
 * Breton: Kimera
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 喀邁拉
 * Czech: Chiméra
 * Danish: Kimære, kimære
 * Esperanto: ĥimero
 * Estonian: Kimäär, kimäär
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: Quimera
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: Χίμαιρα, χίμαιρα
 * Greenlandic: Kimære
 * Hebrew: כימרה
 * Hungarian: Kiméra
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: Khimaira
 * Inuktitut: ᕿᒦᕋ
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: キメラ, キマイラ
 * Korean: 키메라, 키마이라
 * Latin: Chimaera
 * Macedonian: химера
 * Norwegian: Kimære, Khimaira
 * Persian: شیمر, کایْمِرا
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Quimera,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Химера, химера
 * Roman: Himera,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: chimaira, chimära, kimera, Chimaira
 * Tagalog: kimera
 * Thai: คิเมียรา
 * Turkish: Kimera

Etymology
, from.