Word.ws English Dictionary

rusalkas

rusalkas is the plural of rusalka.

Meaning of rusalka

Noun

rusalka (plural rusalkas or rusalky or rusalki)

  1. (Slavic mythology) A female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths underwater.
    • She is now a rusalka, a water spirit; in revenge she sends their daughter, a rusalochka, to lure him into the water.2009 March 1, Alastair Macaulay, “What Do Aquawomen Want?”, in New York Times

Questions about rusalkas

What is rusalkas the plural of?
Rusalkas is the plural of rusalka.

Words near rusalkas in the dictionary

  1. RUSAF
  2. Rusak
  3. rusakovite
  4. Rusaks
  5. rusalka
  6. rusalkas
  7. rusalki
  8. rusalky
  9. rusbank
  10. rusbanks
  11. Rusbridge

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rusalkas (page history and authors); rusalka (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “rusalkas.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rusalkas. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.