warlock

Etymology
From, , , from , from , equivalent to (from ; whence also 🇨🇬) + , from , related to Old English  (whence English ). The hard -ck ending originated in Scottish and Northern English, like the sense "male magic-user" (from the notion that such men were in league with the Devil and had thus broken their baptismal vows / betrayed Christianity). Cognate with 🇨🇬.

A few writers alternatively propose a derivation from 🇨🇬, but as the OED notes, this is implausible due to the extreme rarity of the Norse word, the semantic difference, and because forms without hard -k, which are consistent with the Old English etymology (“traitor”), are attested earlier than forms with -k, and forms with -ð- are not attested.

Noun

 * 1) A male magic-user; a male witch.
 * 2)  A magic-user (regardless of gender).
 * 1)  A magic-user (regardless of gender).
 * 1)  A magic-user (regardless of gender).

Usage notes

 * Because of its etymology, the term is not used by some male witches, who prefer other terms like witch instead.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: سَاحِر, مُشَعْوِذ, عَرَّاف, مُحْتال, مُشْتَغِلٌ بِالسّحْر, ساحرة
 * Belarusian: вядзьма́р, чараўні́к, чарадзе́й, вядзьма́к, маг, чарнакні́жнік
 * Breton: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Classical Nahuatl: nāhualli
 * Cornish: pystrier
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: heksemester, troldkarl, troldmand, magiker
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sorĉisto
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Hexer
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:, tukang sihir
 * Irish: fiaghruagach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin: veneficus, magus, fascinator,
 * Macedonian: ве́штер, ма́ѓепсник
 * Manx: fer obbee
 * Maori: ruānuku, tohunga ruānuku
 * Mapudungun: kalku
 * Norwegian:
 * Nynorsk: trollkall, trollmann, runekall, tauvrekall
 * Occitan: brouch
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Scots: juglour, sorcerar, varlet, warlock, weird
 * Serbo-Croatian:, чаробњак
 * Slovak: strigôň, bosorák, černokňažník
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: чаклу́н, чарівни́к, характе́рник,, чорнокни́жник
 * Welsh: dewin
 * Xhosa: igqwirha
 * Yucatec Maya: waay

Etymology
From, , , from , from (from ; compare ) + , from , related to Old English  (whence English ).

Noun

 * 1) the Devil
 * 2) a devil; a fiend
 * 3) warlock; a man who is thought to be in league with the powers of darkness and to have supernatural knowledge and means of bewitching and harming others
 * 4)  witch
 * 5)  sorcerer, wizard, magician
 * 6) * "sco"

- He wis hissel a warlock or a wicht, whit thay kent by thit he teuk 'e witch's pairt.


 * 1)  bewitched, magical, supernatural; malevolent, mischievous
 * 2)  an old, ugly or misanthropic man; a mischievous or troublesome fellow