Meanings
nounwerehyena (plural werehyenas)
plural werehyenas
- fantasyA shapeshifter capable of assuming the form of a hyena.
People believed that the werewolves, or werehyenas, which they called buda, were too strong in those places to permit safe habitation by human beings.
1943, Thomas Alexander Lambie, Boot and saddle in Africa, page 48
Origin
Translations
French hyène-garou
- hyène-garoushapeshifter assuming the form of a hyena
Japanese ハイエナ人間
- ハイエナ人間 (haiena ningen)shapeshifter assuming the form of a hyena
Polish hienołak
- hienołakshapeshifter assuming the form of a hyena
Portuguese homem-hiena
- homem-hienashapeshifter assuming the form of a hyena
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