Chinese		Chinese mythology
Bi	north
Changcheng	Great Wall	Chongming	a Chinese mythological bird
changzui	long beak
chibang	wing
chu	early
Confuciusornis	Confucius, the greatest thinker and educator in Chinese history	Kunpengopterus	Kun Peng, an ancient mythological figure from China regarded as being a very strange flying animal
fei	flying
Ganjiang	male
Gege	princess in Chinese Qing Dynasty
Gui	malevolent ghost in Chinese Culture
huji	huji represents an abbreviation in Chinese pinyin and refers to the lacustrine deposits characteristic of Jiufotang and Yixian Formations in western Liaoning Province
Huoshan	volcano
jingou	female warrior
Ju chi	sawtooth
Jun	beautiful
lin	forest
linglong	exquisite
Liushu	willow tree
long	Dragon
Mengciusornis	ancient Chinese philosopher Mengzi
Menglong	vigorous dragon
mao	fur
mogu	demon
Moye	female
pang	fat
Pangu	creator of the universe
Shangyang	Chinese mythological bird ('rain bird')
Shan wei miao	fan-tailed bird
shen	deity, divinity or cleaver
shenmi	mysterious
shi	stone
shou	creature, animal or beast
shu	old name for the Sichuan Province, China
Weichang	encircled field
wugui	turtle
xingzhe	walker
xi	lizard
xiang	free flight
Xiao	dawn
xihai	western sea
yu	character that is the short form for Henan Province
zhong	middle or intermediate
Arabic
Al Anga		"a Phoenix"-like mythological flying creature
Al Affa		classical Arabic name for all snakes
Al Thoban		an Arabic name for snakes
derson		cheek tooth
dir		armor
hamada		a stony plateau
Haramiya		trickster, petty theif
Haramiyavia		trickster, petty theif
maghreb		western
qadim		ancient
Sahara		Desert
tuban		basilisk, dragon
Zarafa		giraffe
zolhafa		turtle
Aonikenk language
Kookne		Mythological swan companion of the Aonikenk hero Elal
yeut		mountain
French
atavismus		evolutionary throwback
melusinae		the name of a mythical woman who is a serpent or fish from the waist down. Melusine is part of European folklore and is said to have been married to Count Siegfried, considered the first count of Luxenburg
yelmo		helment
Guarani Indian
rani		first
yacare		crocodile
Hebrew
Najash		the legged biblical snake
Japanese
"kappa"		a ghost in Japanese folklore
Sakura		cherry blossom
Kazakhistan
kum		sand
ot		campfire
sai		gully, dry river bed
Samruk		the mythological Kazakh Phoenix
sor		salt pan
su		water
Kyrgyzstan
azhdarcho		dragon
Malagasay
adala		crazy
adino		hidden
ampinga		shield
antitra		old
ay-grou		frog
fanambinana		good fortune
fisaka		flat
kalanoro		an ape-like being from Malagasy legend
kely		small
kongona		bug
konka		very old
lasa		from past
Lavanify		long tooth
mahalana		scarce
mena		red
menarana		snake
Miolaka		curved
nosy		island
sokatra		turtle
Tsangatsangana		just out for a walk
vintana		luck
voay		crocodile
Vorona		bird
Mapuche
uzi		fast
wenu		sky
Mongolia
altai		aimag ("province"), Gobi-Altai, in which the Shar Teg Beds
Baaatar		hero
baruun-		west
Darkhan		celebrated
Els		sand
erdenete		precious
gurvel		lizard
Mangas		transliteration from Mongolian: Mangas is a mythological monster of Mongolian folklore
nuur-		lake
ovoo		a heap or carin
saichan-		beautiful
Tom		big
zara		hedgehog
Nahuatl
pexic		split
tetl		stone
Native American Indian
Baena		speculated to mean turtle in a native American language
Navajo
Ch'e'e'h digha'hii		turtle
Norse
Anar (“the other”)		a dwarf in Norse mythology (Voluspa 11 & 15)
Biarmia or Bjarmaland		Norse name from the area east of the White Sea (akin to the Finnish Permian
Polish
smok		dragon
Portuguese
banguela		edentulous
Quechua language
Inti		sun
Sanskrit
apsara		winged consorts prominent in Buddhist and Hindu art
avashisht		that which survives
Bharat		India
jeh		gape
kaakshinaatya		of the south
kurma		turtle
pantha		traveller
sankuch		compressed
Spanish
el lagarto (alligator)		lizard
Caiman		alligator or crocodile
Diablo		devil
gordo		fat
llano		plains
Swahili
abaju		wonderful, amazing
nakuna		nail
nunda		predator
nyama		beast
Tupi (Brazil native language)
Anhanga		devil
aymbere		small lizard
Caupe		goddess of beauty in the Tupi Culture
nera		what was, old
Tapejara		The ancient being
Tupan or Tupa		god of the thunder
Tupuxuara		a male familiar sprit (house-hold servant)
ybaka		sky
Uzbekistan
Ashdaar		Uzbekistan name for a dragon in Uzbek mythology
bobo		grandfather
Zulu
elikhulu		large