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Balaur is a creature in Romanian folklore, similar to a dragon
European dragon

European dragons are legendary creatures in folklore and mythology among the overlapping culture of Europe. The word for dragon in Germanic mythology and its descendants is wiktionary:worm , meaning snake or serpent....
. A balaur is quite large, has fins, feet, and is polycephalous
Polycephaly

Polycephaly is a condition of having supernumerary body part head. The term is derived from the word stem poly- meaning 'many' and kephal- meaning "head", and encompasses bicephaly and dicephaly ....
 (it usually has three, sometimes seven, or even twelve serpent heads). As a traditional character which is found in most Romanian fairy tales, it represents Evil and must be defeated by Fat-Frumos
Fat-Frumos

Fat-Frumos is a knight hero in Romanian folklore, usually present in fairy tales.Akin to Prince Charming, he possesses such essential attributes as courage, purity, justness, physical and spiritual strength, cleverness, passion, and unshakable love....
 in order to release the Princess (see also Zmeu
Zmeu

The Zmeu is a fantastic creature of Romanian folklore and Romanian mythology. Sometimes compared to other fantastic creatures, such as the balaur or the v?rcolac, the zmeu is nevertheless distinct, because it usually has clear anthropomorphic traits: it is humanoid and has legs, arms, the ability to create and use artifacts such...
).

Balaur seems to derive from Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-European language

The Proto-Indo-European language is the unattested, linguistic reconstruction common ancestor of the Indo-European languages, spoken by the Proto-Indo-Europeans....
 words *bel-, "strong", or *bhel-, "to swell".






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Balaur is a creature in Romanian folklore, similar to a dragon
European dragon

European dragons are legendary creatures in folklore and mythology among the overlapping culture of Europe. The word for dragon in Germanic mythology and its descendants is wiktionary:worm , meaning snake or serpent....
. A balaur is quite large, has fins, feet, and is polycephalous
Polycephaly

Polycephaly is a condition of having supernumerary body part head. The term is derived from the word stem poly- meaning 'many' and kephal- meaning "head", and encompasses bicephaly and dicephaly ....
 (it usually has three, sometimes seven, or even twelve serpent heads). As a traditional character which is found in most Romanian fairy tales, it represents Evil and must be defeated by Fat-Frumos
Fat-Frumos

Fat-Frumos is a knight hero in Romanian folklore, usually present in fairy tales.Akin to Prince Charming, he possesses such essential attributes as courage, purity, justness, physical and spiritual strength, cleverness, passion, and unshakable love....
 in order to release the Princess (see also Zmeu
Zmeu

The Zmeu is a fantastic creature of Romanian folklore and Romanian mythology. Sometimes compared to other fantastic creatures, such as the balaur or the v?rcolac, the zmeu is nevertheless distinct, because it usually has clear anthropomorphic traits: it is humanoid and has legs, arms, the ability to create and use artifacts such...
).

Balaur seems to derive from Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-European language

The Proto-Indo-European language is the unattested, linguistic reconstruction common ancestor of the Indo-European languages, spoken by the Proto-Indo-Europeans....
 words *bel-, "strong", or *bhel-, "to swell". It is considered to be a pre-Roman conquest
Roman Dacia

The Roman province of Dacia on the Balkans included the modern Romanian regions of Transylvania, Banat and Oltenia, and temporarily Muntenia and southern Moldova, but not the nearby regions of Moesia....
 word from the Romanian substratum (see also List of Romanian words of possible Dacian origin).