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English

Etymology

From Hebrew ???? \ ??????? (gólem).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????l?m/, /???l?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??o?l?m/, /???l?m/

Noun

golem (plural golems)

1. (mythology) A humanoid creature made from clay, animated by magic.
2. (by extension, fantasy) A humanoid creature made from any previously inanimate matter, such as wood or stone, animated by magic.

Translations

See also

• tulpa
• shikigami

Further reading

• golem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gomel, glome

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Hebrew ???? \ ??????? (gólem).

Noun

golem (plural golems)

1. (biblical) a formless mass; embrio
2. (mythology) golem; a creature made from mud and clay and brought to life through magic
3. an inept or helpless person

Czech

Etymology

From Hebrew ???? \ ??????? (gólem).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ol?m]
• Rhymes: -ol?m

Noun

golem m

1. golem (creature from clay)

Further reading

• golem in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• golem in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Hebrew ???? \ ??????? (gólem).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??o?.l?m/, /??o?.l?m/, (less common) /??o?.l?m/
• Hyphenation: go?lem

Noun

golem m (plural golems, diminutive golempje n)

1. (folklore, fiction) A golem, a clay automaton. [from 18th c.]

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.l?m/

Etymology 1

From Hebrew ???? \ ??????? (gólem).

Noun

golem m pers

1. (mythology) golem (creature)

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

golem

1. instrumental singular of gol

Further reading

• golem in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• golem in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gol?m?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lem/
• Hyphenation: go?lem

Adjective

gòlem (definite gòlem?, Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. huge, giant, mammoth

Declension

Synonyms

• ogroman
• gigantski
• divovski

Spanish

Etymology

From Hebrew ???? \ ??????? (gólem).

Noun

golem m (plural golems)

1. (mythology) golem

English

Alternative forms

• spright (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit (“spirit”), from Latin spiritus. Doublet of spirit.

(computer graphics): First used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s.

Pronunciation

• enPR: spr?t, IPA^(key): /sp?a?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Noun

sprite (plural sprites)

1. (mythology) A spirit; a soul; a shade
   • 1803, William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

     He who torments the chafer's sprite

     Weaves a bower in endless night.

2. An apparition; ghost
3. (mythology) An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
4. (computer graphics) A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
5. An electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm.
6. The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
7. (entomology) Any of various African damselflies of the genus Pseudagrion (of which, Australian species are named riverdamsels).
8. A spayed female ferret.
9. (obsolete) Alternative form of spright (“frame of mind, disposition”)

Synonyms

• (supernatural creature): See goblin (hostile)

Related terms

• sprightly

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (supuraito)

Translations

Anagrams

• Pitres, Presti, Priest, esprit, pierst, priest, re-tips, respit, retips, ripest, sitrep, stripe, tripes

Finnish

Etymology

From English sprite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sprite/, [?s?prit?e?]
• IPA^(key): /?spr?i?t?i/, [?s?pr?i?t??i] (approximating English pronunciation; inflects like risti)
• Rhymes: -ite
• Syllabification: spri?te

Noun

sprite

1. (computer graphics) sprite

Declension

Anagrams

• ripset