English

Alternative forms

• dhampire, dhampyr, damphyr
• dunpeal, dampiel

Noun

dhampir ‎(plural dhampirs)

1. (mythology, fiction) A half-human, half-vampire hybrid.

Albanian

Etymology

Compound formation of dham, Gheg variant of dhëmb ‎(“tooth”) + pir, participle of pi ‎(“to drink”), literally meaning 'that who drinks through his/her teeth'.

Alternatively, Skok lists it as a borrowing from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr, from Proto-Slavic *ǫpyrь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ðamˈpiɾ/, [ðamˈpiɹ]

Noun

dhampir m (definite singular dhampiri)

1. The child of a vampire father and human mother.

References

• Skok, Petar (1973) Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 3, Zagreb: JAZU, page 564