Ghoul

Noun

 * 1)  A spirit said to feed on corpses.
 * 2) * 1927 — H.P. Lovecraft, Pickman's Model
 * The other chamber had shown a pack of ghouls and witches over-running the world of our forefathers, but this one brought the horror right into our own daily life!.
 * 1) A graverobber; a person with an undue interest in death and corpses.

Synonyms

 * zombie
 * resurrectionist

Derived terms

 * ghoulish

Thesaurus
Baba Yaga, Dracula, Frankenstein, Lilith, Wolf-man, afreet, ape-man, barghest, body snatcher, bogey, bogeyman, booster, bugaboo, bugbear, cacodemon, chicken thief, con man, crook, daeva, demon, den of thieves, devil, devil incarnate, dybbuk, embezzler, evil genius, evil spirit, fee-faw-fum, fiend, fiend from hell, filcher, frightener, ganef, genie, genius, ghost, grafter, grave robber, gyre, harpy, hellhound, hellion, hellkite, hobgoblin, holy terror, horror, incubus, jewel thief, jinni, jinniyeh, lamia, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, larcener, larcenist, lifter, monster, nightmare, ogre, ogress, peculator, petty thief, phantom, pilferer, poacher, prowler, purloiner, rakshasa, revenant, robber, satan, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, scrounger, shedu, shoplifter, sneak thief, specter, stealer, succubus, swindler, terror, the undead, thief, vampire, werewolf, white-collar thief, yogini

Alternative forms

 * ghole

Etymology
Persian &mdash; an imaginary sylvan demon, supposed to devour men and animals. Cognate to Arabic غول: and French goule:, and to English alcohol:.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Chinese: 食屍鬼 (shí shī guǐ)
 * Czech: ghůl
 * Finnish: ghouli
 * French:
 * German: Ghul
 * Hebrew: ע'ול
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese: グール (gūru)
 * Ojibwe:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ghul, ghula
 * Portuguese:, ghul, ghol
 * Russian: гуль
 * Spanish: ,

Anagrams

 * lough