banshee

Etymology
, from. The term entered English in 1771.

Noun

 * 1)  A female spirit, usually taking the form of a woman whose mournful wailing warns of an impending death.
 * 2)  A noisy or ill-tempered woman.
 * 1)  A noisy or ill-tempered woman.

Usage notes

 * A banshee was originally merely a fairy woman who sang a caoineadh (lament) for recently-deceased members of certain families. Translations of Irish works into English made a distinction between the banshee and other fairy folk that the original language and original stories do not seem to have, but from which sprung the current image of the banshee.

Translations

 * Arabic: بَانْشِي
 * Armenian: բանշի
 * Catalan: banshee
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:,  ,
 * Danish: bansheen
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: banŝio
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian: sikítószellem
 * Irish: bean sí
 * Japanese: バンシー
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: banşî
 * Manx: ben shee
 * Old Irish: ben síde, baintsíde
 * Polish: szyszymora
 * Portuguese: banshee
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scots: banshee
 * Scottish Gaelic: bean-shìdh
 * Spanish: banshee,
 * Ukrainian: банші
 * Welsh: cyhyraeth

Noun

 * 1)   a female spirit who warns of impending death

Etymology
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