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Day 26: Urban Ferris Wheel

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Translation and Tongues - "Mermaid" Around the World

Afrikaans: meermin
Albanian: sirenë
Arabic: حورية البحر (bint al-bahr) - which literally translates to "daughter of the sea," also: "arouset el-bar," and "houryah al-bahr"
Armenian: ջրահարս (ǰrahars)
Azerbaijan: supərisi (Phonetic translation please)
Bulgarian: морска сирена (morska sirena)
Chinese: 美人鱼 (mei ren yu)
Czech: mořská panna (more-skah pah-nah)
Danish & Norweigian: havfrue (half-fru)
Dutch: zeemeermin
English: mermaid
Estonian: merineitsi
Farsi: زن ماهی (Pronunciation, please)
Filipino: sirena (mermaid) and siyokoy (merman)
Finnish: merenneito
French: sirène (see-ren)
Galician: serea
Georgian: ქალთევზა (k'alt'evza)
German: meerjungfrau (mir-yung-frahw)
Greek: γοργόνα (ghor-ghoh-nah)
Hawaiian: maheli~heli
Hebrew: סירונית (baat-yam) - which translates to daughter of the sea
Hindi: जलपरी(jal pari) or मत्स्यांगना(Matsyāṅganā)
Hungarian: hableány or sellő
Icelandic: hafmeyjan (haf-may-yan)
Igbo: mami wata (Though, this is more the mythological figure)
Indonesian & Malayan: ikan duyung betina
Irish: maighdean mhara, mhuruch
Japanese: 人魚 or にんぎょ (ningyo) or マーメイド(ma-meido)
Korean: 인어 (in-neoh)
Latvian: nāra, sirēna
Lithuanian: undinė (like the story, perhaps?)
Persian: افسونگر(Phonetic translation please)
Pig Latin: ermaid-may
Polish: syrena
Portuguese: sireia
Romanian: sirenã
Russian, Belarusian, & Ukranian: русалка (rusálka)
Scottish-Gaelic: maighdeann-mhara
Serbo-Croation, Basque, Spanish, & Italian: sirena
Swedish: sjöjungfru (syoh-yung-frue)
Telugu: మత్స్యకన్య (matsyakanya)
Thai: เงือก (Ngeụ̄xk)
Turkish: deniz kizi (deh-niz keh-zuh) - which translates to "sea daughter"
Urdu: متسیانگنا (Phonetic translation please)
Vietnamese: mỹ nhân ngư (mee nyang nghu - with the ng sound coming from curling your tongue in your mouth. NOT - 'nu' sound, which means "stupid") - which translates to "beautiful lady in ocean"
Welsh: môr-forwyn (more fore-win)
Yiddish: מערמייד (yam-meydl)
Yoruba: yemôja (yeh-moh-jah)

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