Names of Dragons
AFD's Names of Dragons


 

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), äðàêîí (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, Dráèek (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.: Angulóce: generic, Ramalóce: winged dragon, Urulóce: 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: dragón, El Draque, Brujah


Swedish: drake, lindorm


Swedish (Ancient): flugdrake, floghdraki


Swiss German: Drachä


Tagalog: drakón


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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