English
Noun
rusalka (plural rusalkas or rusalky or rusalki)
- (Slavic mythology) A female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths underwater.
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2009 March 1, Alastair Macaulay, “What Do Aquawomen Want?”, in New York Times:- She is now a rusalka, a water spirit; in revenge she sends their daughter, a rusalochka, to lure him into the water.
Hypernyms
Translations
female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths
- Arabic: رُوسَالْكَا f (rūsālkā)
- Belarusian: руса́лка f (rusálka)
- Bulgarian: руса́лка (bg) f (rusálka)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 魯薩爾卡, 鲁萨尔卡 (lǔsà'ěrkǎ)
- Czech: rusalka (cs) f
- Dutch: roesalka f, rusalka f
- Finnish: rusalka
- French: roussalka (fr) f
- German: Rusalka f, Russalka f
- Greek: ρουσάλκα f (rousálka)
- Italian: rusalka f
- Japanese: ルサールカ (rusāruka)
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Portuguese
Noun
rusalka f (plural rusalkas)
- (Slavic mythology) rusalka (female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths)