""Zombie" in other languages" Topic

What's the word?
Please do not make one up. For my own amusement, I would like the CORRECT word for "zombie" in as many languages as TMPers feel qualified to supply.
For extra credit, use it in a sentence, such as "The zombies are coming! Run for your lives!"
If it is in a language that, ahem, takes liberties with the way English speakers use the alphabet, kindly supply pronunciation keys too.
I feel halfway competent to pronounce French, German and Latin, but then I am at sea.

Now, I am off to sell Comcast door to door the day after 16" of snow fell in NE PA, and expect to find this thread brimming with admonitions to avoid zeds by the time I get home.

Well, it's 'zombi' in French, and 'zombie' in German.

French would be 'les zombis vienne! Courez pour vos vies'. I think.

I don't think the Romans were too bothered by them, so good luck with finding a Latin translation. I suspect it will have an awkward construct along the lines of 'the walking dead, but not dead' in it

Romans called ghosts "lemurs." Is that any help?

Well, the term has entered to the political world…

So from English to Dutch, Babelfish gives us, "De zombieën luisteren aan glennwenk."

Allen

Seeing that the myth about zombies stemming from the voodoo tradition is what has given rise to the modern zombie, it is not surprising that, as in english, the west african loan word is used.

In swedish we get:
Zombierna kommer! Spring för livet!
(The) zombie: Zombie(n)
(The) zombies: zombie(rna)

And in spanish:
¡Los zombis vienen! ¡Corre por tu vida!
(I'm not certain that is entirely idomatically correct, perhaps a native spanish speaker would express it slightly different.)
(The) zombie: (el) zombi
(The) Zombies: (los) zombis

The Czechs use the word zombie too, although it is sometimes given in its diminutive form zombík. There is an indigenous word nedomrlec, but I can't say I've ever heard it used.
As for your phrase, it'd probably be something like "Zombíci prijdou! Utikejte/Zachrante si, kdo muže."
(Zombeetsee przheedough. Ooteekayteh / Zakranteh see gdo moozheh – oh for the IPA)

EDIT: TMP doesn't like some Czech diacritics.

Mr Pubmlechook tells me Drauger is the viking term for Zombie

considering a Zombie is dead, but with a semblance of life, could the latin term semianimus for half alive be an appropriate term?

Draugr is an entirely different species of undead, and is more akin to wight (or even a ghost).

They are autonomous and generally vengeful, not shambling and mindless, and inhabit their burial cairns or mounds, guarding their treasures.
Often immune to weapons, they have to be wrestled back into their graves.

Zombie is Zombie in every language.

"Barkeep! Bring me another Zombie".
-Kle.

I'm just curious. Why is this on the food board?

Because we don't have a drink board?
-Kle.

While in German the term Zombi is usually used, there are two other words with the same meaning – Die lebenden Toten (the living dead) and Untote (the undead).

Examples:

Die lebenden Toten erheben sich aus ihren Gräbern (The living dead rise from their graves)
Die Untoten erheben sich aus ihren Gräbern. (The undead rise from their graves.)

Italian seems to have borrowed "zombie" from English, but I see that "cretino" is a zombie-equivalent when you mean someone is like a zombie, an idiot.

My Scots Gaelic dictionary does not, alas, have an entry for zombie, which makes me very sad.

Mais alors, les zombis ont arrivé! Merde! Sauve qui peut, toute le monde!

Hmm. Tout le monde?

In Japanese, zombie is either ゾンビ (zonbi) or, if you need to be polite to a zombie in a situation where you are meeting for the first time or the zombie is your social superior:　生ける屍　（ikeru shikabane). This means "living corpse."