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Here’s where a lot of fights break out. Where the hell did the word vampire come from. Best guesses suggest it might be from the Proto-Slavic *ǫpyrь which is itself derived - as near as anyone can tell - from a very old Turkish word for witch (ubyr or ubyrly) but this … I’m sadly not kidding, fights have happened over this. There’s an odd “thing” about claiming to be the place where vampires come from and tourism campaigns have waged a scholarly war over where the word vampire was first uttered. 
See: 
# http://www.melczarek.net/Wilson_History_Word_Vampire.pdf 
# https://www.britannica.com/topic/vampire 
# http://magiaposthuma.blogspot.com/2011/06/zopf-harleian.html 
# https://mg.co.za/article/2006-04-24-croatian-dracula-revived-to-lure-tourists/ 
# https://web.archive.org/web/20100217125732/http://boravak.hr/hr/full/istrazujemo/s/jure-grando-istarski-vampir-ili-ljudska-masta/56 
#Vampire as a Wanderword in Anatolian Dialects 
As near as I can figure out, though, the ancient Sumerians had a kind of vampire long before writing was developed. One of the earliest surviving books we know of was a handbook for expelling ghosts, household imps, magic spells for getting the baby to take a nap and to cure the common cold and listed ways to rid a village of vampires. And this book wasn’t a rough draft. It is organized and the descriptions are exact. This suggests to me that the stories and folk traditions in it were well told and fully developed long before we had a formal way to write them down. So vampires may have been with us from the very beginning. 
Now, this page isn’t for debating who said it first. This is one of my many lists of lists for general curiosity’s sake.
Creature Specific Names are on that creatures page.
=== Online Etymology Dictionary ===
vampire (n.)
spectral being in a human body who maintains semblance of life by leaving the grave at night to suck the warm blood of the living as they sleep, 1732, vampyre, from French vampire (18c.) or German Vampir (1732, like the English word first in an account of Hungarian vampires), from Hungarian vampir, from Old Church Slavonic opiri (source also of Serbian vampir, Bulgarian vapir, Ukrainian uper), said by Slavic linguist Franc Miklošič to be ultimtely from Kazan Tatar ubyr "witch," but Max Vasmer, an expert in this linguistic area, finds that phonetically doubtful.
An Eastern European creature popularized in English by late 19c. gothic novels, however there are scattered English accounts of night-walking, blood-gorged, plague-spreading undead corpses from as far back as 1196. Figurative sense of "person who preys on others" is from 1741. Applied 1774 by French biologist Buffon to a species of South American blood-sucking bat. Related: Vampiric.
MR. D'Anvers tells of a Conversation he had about a certain Prodigy, mention'd in the News Papers of March last, viz. that in the Village of Medreyga in Hungary, certain dead Bodies (call'd there Vampyres) had kill'd several Persons by sucking out all their Blood : That Arnold Paul, an Heyduke, having kill'd four Persons after he was dead, his Body was taken up 40 Days after, which bled at the Nose, Mouth and Ears : That, according to Custom, they drove a Stake thro' his Heart, at which he gave horrid Groan, and lost a great deal of Blood. And that all such as have been tormented or kill'd by Vampyres, become Vampyres when they are dead. [London Journal, May 20, 1732, quoted in Weekly Essays, May 1732]
The spread of the story about this time is perhaps traceable to a pamphlet published in 1732, the title page of which reads: Dissertationem De Hominibus Post Mortem Sanguisugis, Vulgo Sic Dictis Vampyren, Auctoritate Inclyti Philosophorum Ordinis, Publico Eruditorum Examini Die XXX. Aug. An. MDCCXXXII. Submittent M. Io. Christophorus Pohlius, Lignicens. Silesius Et Io. Gottlob Hertelius, Philos. Et Med. Stud. https://www.etymonline.com/word/vampire#etymonline_v_4625 
=== Dont think this page is finished. ===
some of these are questionable, some are up for debate. 
A few are absolutely modern (words created to deal with movies and tv) or were borrowed from a regions linguistic neighbor. 
One of them is in here just to have a kind of fun. You'll know it when you see it. 
== Vampire ==
Albanian = gjakpirës vampire | vurdalak vampire | pirja e gjakut blood drinker | dhampir vampire, 
Amharic = ቫምፓየር vamipayeri vampire
Arabic =  مَصَّاص‎ maṣṣāṣ male vampire | مَصَّاصَة‎ maṣṣāṣa female vampire |  رعب raeb horror or fright | مصاص دماء masas dima' vampire | خفاش khafaash bat, vampire, harpy | خفاش يمتص الدما khafaash yamtasu aldamaa a bat that drinks blood | النزافة حشرة مصاصة دماء alnazafat hasharat musasat dima' medicinal use of leaches
Armenian = վամպիր vampir | սատակ satak ghoul | հոգեգեշ hogegesh evil soul
Asturian: vampiru 
Azerbaijani = qaniçən bloodthirsty, vampire | xunxar bloody or blood drinker | qanıq blood lust, saturated with revenge | qansoran Blood drinking parasite, leech | xortdan vampire, to frighten
Basque = banpiroa vampire | banpiro vampire
Belarusian = вампір vampire borrowed from either Russian or Ukrainian  |  ўпір upir ghoul | кажа́н kažán bats
Bengali = রক্তচোষা Raktacōṣā vampire, leech | রক্ত শোষক পিশাচ Rakta śōṣaka piśāca blood sucking vampire | রক্তচোষা বাদুড়  Raktacōṣā bāduṛa vampire bats | বলপূর্বক অর্থ গ্রহণকারী Balapūrbaka artha grahaṇakārī vicious extortionist | ভ্যাম্পায়ার bhêmpayar vampire
Bosnian = vampir
Bulgarian = вампи́р vampire borrowed from either Russian or Ukrainian | кръвопиец krŭvopiets bloodsucker, vampire | krʺvopiec blood sucker borrowed from Polish 
Burmese: သွေးစုပ်ဖုတ်ကောင် cuphputkaung vampire | သွေးစုပ်လင်းဆွဲ sway hcote lainn swal blood drinking bats
Catalan: vampir 
Chechen: убар ubar vampire
Chinese (Simplified) =  吸血鬼 Xīxuèguǐ vampire, bloodsucking, leech | 蛭 Zhì leech | 剥削者 Bōxuè zhě bloodsucker, exploiter
Czech = upír vampire, incubus, vampire | vampýr 
Danish: vampyr
Dutch = vampier vampire | uitzuiger thing that extracts blood, vampire | bloedzuiger leech, bloodsucker, vampire
Eliphas Levi = "le somnambule de la tombe.” 
Esperanto = vampiro
Estonian = vampiir | vereimeja bloodsucker
Finish = vampyyri | verenimijä bloodsucker, leech, harpy | verivampyyri blood of vampire
Galician: vampiro 
Georgian: ვამპირი vamṗiri vampire
German =  Vampir | Blutsauger blood sucking corpse, vampire |  Vampirin female vampire
Greek = βρυκόλακας vrykólakas vampire, zombie | νυκτερίδα nykterída vampire | Greek: βαμπίρ vampire | δράκουλας drákoulas Dracula
Gujarati = વેમ્પાયર  Vēmpāyara vampire | સૂતેલાઓનું લોહી ચૂસી લેનાર ભૂત અથવા જીવંત થયેલું મડદુ  Sūtēlā'ōnuṁ lōhī cūsī lēnāra bhūta athavā jīvanta thayēluṁ maḍadu The blood-sucking ghost of the bedridden or the living dead
Hatian Creole = vanpir
Hawaiian = dont really have a word for vampire but sometimes we see attempts with “make e ola nei” to mean the living dead
Hebrew = ערפד leech, vampire | עֲלוּקָה leech, horseleech | עַרְפָּד‎ erfd vampire 
Hindi = पिशाच pishaach vampire, ghoul, boogey, demon | शव भोजी प्रेत shav bhojee pret ghoul, dead body
Hungarian = vámpír | kísértet ghost, vampire, boogey
Icelandic: vampíra 
Ido: vampiro 
Indonesian = mayat pengisap darah vampire | mayat penghisap darah blood sucking corpse | penggoda wanita female vampire, temptress | vampir
Irish: vaimpír | deamhan fola blood demon | súmaire fola bloodsucker |
Japanese = バンパイア Banpaia vampire | 吸血鬼 Kyūketsuki vampire, bloodsucker | 天魔 Tenma monster, demon, vampire, evil spirit きゅうけつき kyūketsuki vampire | ヴァンパイア vuanpaia vampire | 
Kannada = ರಕ್ತಪಿಶಾಚಿ | ಮಾಟಗಾರ = Raktapiśāci| māṭagāra = vampire | witch
Kazakh = вампир vampire
Khmer: ខ្មោចអាប khmaochaeab evil ghost | បិសាច besach = monster, demon, devil, vampire
Klingon: 'iw tlhutlh veqlargh blood drinking devil
Korean: 흡혈귀 heubhyeolgwi vampire | 흡혈동물 heubhyeoldongmul vampire, bloodsucker | 흡혈 박쥐 heubhyeol bagjwi vampire | 흡혈귀 같은 착취자  heubhyeolgwi gat-eun chagchwija to bleed someone dry 
Kyrgyz: вампир vampir
Lao = ຜີດິບ phidib zombie, vampire | ຜີເປົ້າ phi pao demon which eats only raw flesh  |  ຜີປອບ phipob demon, possessed corpse | ແວມໄພ aeuam phai, vampire
Latin = lamia | suco | hirudo leech | sanguisuga blood drinker, leech | vampyrus | cadaver sanguine blood drinking corpse
Latvian = vampīrs | asinssūcējs vampire | plāksnīte Lamia | slānis vampire below | lamina
Lakota = MODERN weyágopela | vampire movie or character
Lithuanian = vampyras male vampire | avantiūristė vampire hunter? vampire adventurer? | kraugerys leech, vampire | suviliotoja vampire, blood sucker | suvedžiotoja vampire, leech | vampyrė female vampire 
Luxembourgish: Vampir 
Macedonian = вампир 
Malagasy: vampira 
Malay = Pontianak / Kuntilanak
Malayalam = വാമ്പയർ vāmpayar 
Marathi = पिशाच pishaach vampire, ghoul, boogey | रक्‍तशोषक rak‍tashoshak chronic anemia | वटवाघूळ  Vaṭavāghūḷa spook, ghost vampire | व्हॅम्पायर  Vhĕmpāyara vampire
Mongolian = цус сорогч tsus sorogch vampire
Myanmar (Burmese) = သွေးစုပ်ဖုတ်ကောင် swayhcotehpotekaung
Navajo: Modern hastiin tsʼíʼiitsoh
Nepali = पिशाच  Piśāca vampire, ghoul | शव भोजी प्रेत shav bhojee pret dead body, ghoul
Norwegian: Modern vampyr 
Persian = خون آشا vampire, bloodsucker, leech, lamia | موجود خون دوست vampire, blood-loving creature | روح sadist, ghoul, monster
Philip Macleod = “Farkaskoldus” occult review v18 n3 sep 1913
Philip Macleod = "Precolitsch" occult review v18 n3 sep 1913
Polish = strzyga vampire | upiór vampire, ghost, bat | wampir vampire | upiorny ghastly, spooky, vampire | wampirzyca female vampire  |  wąpierz male vampire
Portuguese = vampira female | vampiro male | mulher fatal femme fatale
Punjabi = ਪਿਸ਼ਾਚ  Piśāca vampire | ਜਾਲ Jāla Leech | ਲਾਸ਼ ਭੂਤ Lāśa bhūta Corpse ghost
Roman: vampir male, vampirka female, vampirica female
Romanian = strigoi ghost, vampire | vârcolac werewolf, vampire, spoon | vampir male | vampiră female | vampiri male | strigoaie female | drăcuşor little vevil | strigoaică undead 
Russian = вампир vampire, vampire bat, ghoul | упырь upyr ghoul, vampire | вурдалак vurdalák vampire | вампи́рша vampírša borrowed from Ukrainian | вымогатель vymogatel' extortionist, vampire, leech | кровопийца krovopiytsa bloodsucker, leech, vampire | еретик yeretik heretic | живые мертвецы zhivyye mertvetsy living dead | одержимый труп oderzhimyy trup possessed corpse | нетленныйтруп netlennyytrup corpse that doesn't rot | отлучен otluchen the excommunicated
Scottish Gaelic: bhampair ? | deoch-làidir fala blood drinker | mharbhan beò living dead 
Serbian = вампир vampire | зомбији living dead, zombie | пијавица pijavica leech, vampire | гуликожа guli-koža bloodsucker 
Sesotho = phela shoeleng living dead | moea o noang mali blood drinking ghost/spirit 
Sindhi = ویمپائر vampire, borrowed from Urdu | رت چوسيندڙ گھوٽ blood sucking ghost | رت جو شيطان Demon/Devil of blood
Sinhala = වැම්පයර්  væmpayar | ලේ පානය කරන්නා lē pānaya karannā blood drinker | කූඩැල්ල kūḍælla leech | කෝපාවිෂ්ට අවතාරය kōpāviṣṭa avatāraya | ගොල්  gol ghoul, vampire | පිසාචයින් pisācayin
Slovak = upír | vydierač vampire, blackmailer | pijavica tick, leech, vampier 
Slovene: vampír | pijavka leech, vampire | živih mrtvecev zombie, living dead | sesaleckrvi blood sucker ?
Somali: maydka dhiigga nuugo blood drinking corpe? | dixiri dhiig cuna leech
Sumerian / Akkadian: aḫḫaru | UDUG | utukku
Sundanese: lintah leech | roh jahat evil ghost | hantu getih blood ghost
Swahili: mumiani vampiri | mnyonya-damu blood-drinking | ruba leech
Swedish = blodsugare blood drinker, leech, vampire | vampyr
Tajik = вампир vampire | зирк zirk leech | нӯшандаи хун nūşandai xun blood drinker | дракула dracula "he's a dracula"
Tagalog = bampira
Tamil = காட்டேரி  Kāṭṭēri vampire | ஜாம்பி Jāmpi zombie, vampire
Tartar = вурдалак мәет vurdalak cemetery | вампир vampire | кан арбак эчү blood drinking ghost or a ghoul | үтерүарбак corpse killer ?
Telugu = పిశాచ Piśāca vampire |  రక్త పిశాచి rakta piśāci vampire | రక్త దెయ్యం Rakta deyyaṁ blood ghost
Thai = แทตย์  Thæty̒monster, vampire, demon | ค้างคาวดูดเลือด Kĥāngkhāw dūd leụ̄xd vampire, vampire bat | ผู้ดูดเลือด | แวมไพร์  P̄hū̂ dūd leụ̄xd blood sucker, vampire | ผีดูดเลือด  P̄hī dūd leụ̄xd vampire | ผีดิบ  P̄hīdib undead, zombie, vampire  |  
Turkish = vampir | vupkan ? | ubır | obur
Turkmen =  wampir, gan içýän blood drinker | sülek leech
Ukrainian = вампір vampire | вимагач vymahach extortionist, vampire | кажан  bat, vampire | п'явка p'yavka leech, blood sucker
Urdu = vampire ویمپائر |  پشاچ‎ vampire | leech جونک | blood drinker خون پینے والا
Uyghur = | قان ئىچكۈچى blood drinker | كۈدە leech | قاقتى-سوقتى قىلغۇچىلار extortionist, abuser, vampire 
Uzbek = katta ko'rshapalak vampir, giant bat, ghoul | zolim tyrant, vampire, oppressor | qon ichadigan arvoh blood-drinking ghost
Vietnamese = ma cà rồng vampire, ghoul | người hút máu vampire | con đỉa leech, vampire
Volapük: vampir | hivampir | jivampir
Welsh = fampiriaid vampires | fampir vampire | gele leech | yfwr gwaed blood drinker
Xhosa = olisela igazi blood drinker, vampire | umphangi extortionist, vampire | impundulu A kind of striges that's a witch's familiar that consumes life/blood 
Yiddish = vamprie וואַמפּיר | zombie, vampire זאַמבי | horseleech האָרסעק 
Yoruba = Fanpaya vampire | ẹniti o mu ẹjẹ those who drink blood
Zulu = ingwe vampire, leech | isipoki esibi evil ghost | impundulu A kind of striges that's a witch's familiar that consumes life/blood 
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