ogre

Etymology
First attested in the 18th century, borrowed from, from , from , the personified demon of oaths who inflicts punishment upon oath-breakers. .

Noun

 * 1)  A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh.
 * 2)  A cruel person.
 * 1)  A cruel person.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Asturian: ogru
 * Bulgarian: великан човекоядец
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 食人魔
 * Czech: obr lidožrout, zlobr
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: orco,, ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kikuyu: irimũ
 * Korean: 오거
 * Latvian: cilvēkēdājs
 * Luhya: okundu
 * Malayalam: ഓഗർ
 * Maori: kākarepō
 * Marathi: राक्षस, दानव
 * Mòcheno: ork
 * Ngazidja Comorian: dzimku
 * Ojibwe: wiindigoo
 * Oromo: bulguu
 * Persian: غول پیکر,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: велика́н-людое́д, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: ogrezlo
 * Shan:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: pandikizi la mtu
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: огр


 * Arabic: غَشِيم
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:, Brutalo
 * Marathi: राक्षस
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , , скоти,
 * Swedish: ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Korean: 오거
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: ,

Etymology
, itself probably an alteration, with influence from words like, of an earlier form , from , with. According to the Trésor de la langue française informatisé, first attested in the late 12th century meaning 'fierce non-Christian', and ca. 1300 meaning 'human-eating giant' (in fairy tales). Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. .

See also, possibly from , derived from , and also and , both inherited forms of. A sermon by Merovingian French bishop St. Eligius (died 659) advises people against belief in Neptune, Diana, Orcus and Minerva.