siren

Etymology
From, from and , , from. The mammalian sense was first attested in French in Dominique Bouhours, Les entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugène, in 1671. The aquatic salamander sense was originally introduced by Linnaeus in 1766, for a genus of his reptiles. .

Noun

 * 1)  One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks.
 * 2) One who sings sweetly and charms.
 * 3) A dangerously seductive woman.
 * 4) A member of, an order of mammals.
 * 5) A member of a genus of aquatic salamanders of the family, commonly used for all species in the family Sirenidae.
 * 6) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus.
 * 7) A device, either mechanical or electronic, that makes a piercingly loud sound as an alarm or signal, or the sound from such a device (first recorded 1879).
 * 8) * 1984, Steve Harris, "Aces High", Iron Maiden, Powerslave.
 * "en"
 * 1) * 1984, Steve Harris, "Aces High", Iron Maiden, Powerslave.
 * "en"

- There goes the siren that warns of the air raid / Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak / Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne / Got to get up for the coming attack.


 * 1)  A musical instrument, one of the few aerophones in the percussion section of the symphony orchestra (patented as Acme Siren in 1895).
 * 2) An instrument for demonstrating the laws of beats and combination tones.
 * 3)  An astrophysical event that can be used for calculating cosmic distances.

Translations

 * Arabic: سِيرَانَة
 * Asturian: serena, sirena
 * Azerbaijani: pəri
 * Belarusian: сірэ́на
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 女海妖, 賽蓮
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sireno
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient Greek: Σειρήν
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: Síréana
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: セイレーン
 * Kazakh: сирена
 * Korean: 세이렌
 * Kyrgyz: сирена
 * Latin: Sīrēn
 * Persian: سیرن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сирена
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: сире́на
 * Vietnamese: tiên chim
 * Welsh: cyfareddwraig, cyfareddwragedd


 * Arabic: صَفّارَة
 * Asturian: serena, sirena
 * Azerbaijani: sirena
 * Belarusian: сірэ́на
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sireno
 * Estonian: sireen
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სირენა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Kazakh: гудок
 * Korean: ,
 * Maltese: sirena
 * Maori: haona whakatūpato
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: dùdach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сирена
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: сире́на
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: còi máy, còi điện, xi-ren


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian: прелъстителка
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sireno
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: banchealgaire
 * Japanese: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сирена
 * Roman:


 * Finnish: mutalisko
 * French:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сирен
 * Roman:


 * Finnish: sireenieläin
 * Polish:

Verb

 * 1)  To make a noise with, or as if with, a siren.
 * 2)  To drive with a siren on.

Adjective

 * 1) Relating to or like a siren.

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * , alarm, klaxon
 * , alarm, klaxon

Etymology
From.