incubus

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  An evil spirit supposed to oppress people while asleep, especially to have sex with women as they sleep.
 * 2) A feeling of oppression during sleep, sleep paralysis; night terrors, a nightmare.
 * 3) * |R. Burton with W.H. Gass, The Anatomy of Melancholy, NYRB Classics ser. (New York: New York Review Books, 2001, orig. 1932), ISBN 978-0-940322-66-0, vol. 1, p. 249:
 * it increaseth fearful dreams, incubus, night-walking, crying out, and much unquietness.
 * 1)  Any oppressive thing or person; a burden.
 * 2) * August 1935,, , "The Treader of the Dust":
 * Again he felt the impulse of flight: but his body was a dry dead incubus that refused to obey his volition.
 * 1)  One of various of parasitic insects, especially subfamily.
 * 1) * August 1935,, , "The Treader of the Dust":
 * Again he felt the impulse of flight: but his body was a dry dead incubus that refused to obey his volition.
 * 1)  One of various of parasitic insects, especially subfamily.
 * 1)  One of various of parasitic insects, especially subfamily.
 * 1)  One of various of parasitic insects, especially subfamily.

Translations

 * Arabic: جَاثُوم,
 * Basque:
 * Bulgarian: инкуб
 * Catalan: íncub,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: incubus
 * Dutch: incubus
 * Esperanto: inkubo
 * Finnish:, miespuolinen demoni
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: inkubusz,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: インキュバス,
 * Korean: 몽마
 * Latin: incubus, incubo
 * Lithuanian: inkubai
 * Marathi: इंक्युबस
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , злой дух, злой ге́ний
 * Spanish:
 * Sumerian: 𒋼𒇲, 𒌜, 𒀉𒉺, 𒀀𒇲
 * Swedish: incubus
 * Turkish:


 * Arabic: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: íncub,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * French:, terreurs nocturnes,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: incubo, incubus
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, дурно́й сон
 * Spanish:


 * Arabic: باروك
 * Dutch:, ,
 * French:, , , , ,
 * German: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Russian: груз забо́т, ,
 * Spanish: ,

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) an incubus evil spirit
 * 2) a nightmare horrible dream
 * 3) a burden, obsession, yoke

Synonyms

 * (nightmare)

Etymology
From, perhaps via an alteration of the Classical.

Noun

 * 1)  the ,