Names of Dragons
From Dragons Valley Wiki
The following are as many languages as we could find for the word DRAGON. Thanks to all the dragons on Alt.Fan.Dragons, and various people around the world, and books like "Things That Never Were" for their input! Note: some of these are Phonetic and not actual spellings.
African: nrgwenya Afrikaans: Draak Arabic: ah-teen (pl. tah-neen), (Al)Tineen, Plural: (Al)Tananeen Athebascin (Alasken): Manchu Austrian: Drach`n, Lindwurm Bulgarian: drakon (phonetic), äðàêî? (Actual spelling) Catalan (N/E Spain): drac Chinese: lung/long, Liung (Hakka dialect) Chinese: old & new: Croatian/Serbian: zmaj (pronounced "zmai" means Dragon), azdaja (pronounced "azhdaya" means Hydra) Czech: Drak, Dr?èek (Draaachek) Danish: drage Dansk: drage Draconian: Khoth, (pl. Khothu) Driigaran (music language): C4 G4 C5 D5 B5 C5 Double-Dutch: dridi-gag-dridi-gen Dutch: draak Elven/Drow: Tagnik'zur Egg-Latin: Dreggageggon English: dragon English (Middle): dragun, dragoun English (Old): draca Enochian: Vovin (Voh-een) Esperanto: drako, dragono Estonian: draakon, lohe, lohemadu or tuuleuss (Wind Snake), lendav madu Euskera (dialect of the Basque Country): Erensuge Faeroese: eitt dreki, eitt flogdreki, ein fraenarormur Finnish: lohikäärme, draakki, dragoni Fire Witch tongue: Katash wei' vorki (kah-TASH whey VOR-key) Flambian: kazyeeqen (comes from kazyee-aqen, fire lizard) Flemmish: Draeke French: dragon,dragun, dargon Gealic: Arach German: drache (pl. Drachen), Lindwurm, drake (pl. draken) Greek: drakon, drako. Male: drakos (or thrakos), Female: drakena (or thrakena) Greek (ancient): Male: drakkon (or thrakon), Female: drakkina (or thrakena) Hawaiian: Kelekona, (plural) Na Kelekona Hebrew: drakon (plural) drakonim, Tanniym Hungarian: sarkany Icelandic: dreki Indonesian: Naga Iranian: Ejdeha Islamic: th'uban, tinnin Italian: drago, dragone, volante, dragonessa Japanese: ryu, tatsu Jibberish: gidadraggidaen (pronunced "gid-a-drag-gid-ah-en") Klingon: lung'a' puv (pronounced loong-AH poov) "Flying Great Lizard" Korean: yong Latin: draco, dracon, draco, dragon, dragoon, serpent,serpens Luxembourgian: Draach Middle earth Ency.: Angul?ce: generic, Ramal?ce: winged dragon, Urul?ce: fire breath dragon Malay: Naga Milanese (Italy): Dragh, Draguun,Dragoon New Zeland (Maori): tarakona Norse: ormr Norsk: drake, dragonet, liten drake Norwegian: drage Oppish: dropagoponop (pronounced drop-ag-op-an-op) Ourainic Barb: Duxobum Philippines: male: dragon short o, female: Dragona with a short o and a Pig-Latin: Agon-dray Polish: smok Portuguese: dragão Quenya (elven): Loke, winged: Ramaloke, sea: Lingwiloke, fire: Uruloke Reinitian (of Reinita): Dralaghajh Roman: draco Romanian: Dragon, (pl. Dragoni), Zmeu (pl. Zmei), dracul, drakul Russian: drakon Sanskrit: naga (type of snake-human-dragon) Slovenia: Zmaj = Dragon, Hidra = Hydra. Spanish: drag?n, El Draque, Brujah Swedish: drake, lindorm Swedish (Ancient): flugdrake, floghdraki Swiss German: Drachä Tagalog: drak?n Thai: mung-korn Tibetan: Brug (this is pronounced in several ways depending on dialect, DROOK, being the most common. Only in Ladakh is it ever pronounced BRUG.) Turkish: ejderha Ukraine: drakon Vietnamese: Rong (poetic), rng (regular) Welsh: Ddraig Yugoslav: Zmaj, Azdaja Zulu: uzekamanzi
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