Werewolf

Noun

 * 1)  A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to transform during a full moon.

Derived terms

 * werewolfish

Synonyms

 * wolfman
 * lycanthrope

Thesaurus
Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf-man, ape-man, bogey, bogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear, demon, devil, devil incarnate, fee-faw-fum, fiend, fiend from hell, frightener, ghost, ghoul, harpy, hellhound, hellkite, hobgoblin, holy terror, horror, incubus, jaguar-man, lamia, monster, nightmare, ogre, ogress, phantom, revenant, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, specter, succubus, terror, vampire, werecat, werecrocodile, werefox, werehyena, werejaguar, werelion, weretiger

Etymology
Late werewulf:, from wer: + wulf:. Other theories have been suggested; see Werewolf: Etymology. Cognate to garou in French loup-garou:, from Old French warous:, from Frankish wari wulf:.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: вълколак
 * Catalan: home llop
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: gourvlyth
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: varúlvur
 * Finnish:
 * French: ; ,
 * Galician: lobishome,
 * German:, Lykanthrop
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, vérfarkas
 * Icelandic: varúlfur
 * Italian:, lupo mannaro, uomo-lupo
 * Japanese: 狼男


 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latin: lycanthropus, lupinotuum
 * Latvian: vilkacis, vilkatis, vilkateks, kadars
 * Limburgish: waerwouf
 * Lithuanian: vilktakas, vilkolakis
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: گرگینه
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,  , вервольф
 * Scottish Gaelic: fear-faol
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, , lobizón
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: kurt adam
 * Vietnamese: người sói, ma sói
 * Walloon: leu-waerou, waerleu
 * Welsh: bleidd-ddyn