superman

Etymology
A ;. The German word was introduced by the philosopher (1844–1900) in his work Also sprach Zarathustra (', 1883), and rendered in English as superman by Irish playwright  (1856–1950) in the play ' (1903) and by  (1850–1919) in his 1909 translation of Nietzsche’s work. Some scholars regard this word as not properly conveying the meaning of Übermensch, and prefer to use the German word or.

The “person of extraordinary powers” sense was reinforced by the ’ character Superman, who first appeared in Action Comics #1 dated June 1938.

Noun

 * 1)  An imagined superior type of human being representing a new stage of human development; an übermensch, an overman.
 * 2) * 1909, ;, transl., “Zarathustra's Prologue”, in Thus Spake Zarathustra; a Book for All and None (Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche; 4), Edinburgh, T. N. Foulis, 1210069 ; republished as Thus Spake Zarathustra, New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, [1940s?],  11993131 , page 6:
 * And Zarathustra spake thus unto the people: / I teach you the Superman. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man? / [...] What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame.
 * 1) A man of extraordinary or seemingly superhuman powers.
 * And Zarathustra spake thus unto the people: / I teach you the Superman. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man? / [...] What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame.
 * 1) A man of extraordinary or seemingly superhuman powers.
 * 1) A man of extraordinary or seemingly superhuman powers.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: звышчалавек, надчалавек
 * Bulgarian: свръхчовек
 * Catalan: superhome
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: nadčlověk
 * Esperanto: superhomo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Irish: osduine
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: натчовек
 * Mingrelian: ზეადამიანი
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: надчовек, натчовек
 * Roman: nadčovek,
 * Spanish: superhombre
 * Tagalog: higtao
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: (超人)


 * Arabic:
 * Belarusian: супермэн, супермен
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: superman
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hindi:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: កំពូលមនុស្ស
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, supermêr, supermirov, superjin
 * Macedonian: натчовек
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: supermán
 * Tagalog: higtao
 * Vietnamese: (超人)

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Noun

 * 1)  man with superpowers
 * 1)  man with superpowers

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