The word for anything or anyone belonging to Transylvania, that mountainous, forested region of central Romania. It works two ways. As an adjective it describes things from there — Transylvanian villages, Transylvanian food, the Transylvanian Alps. As a noun it means a person from there: "her father is a Transylvanian." Both are perfectly ordinary, neutral words when you are talking about the real place and real people. But the same shadow falls over this word as over the place name. Because of *Dracula*, "Transylvanian" in casual English often carries a hint of the gothic — a Transylvanian accent means, to most English speakers, that theatrical rolling vampire voice from old films, which is not what people in Romania actually sound like. Writers use the word deliberately for that atmosphere. Notice too that the plural noun for people is usually "Transylvanians," and that many of them would describe themselves first as Romanian, or Hungarian, and only then as Transylvanian — regional identity there is layered and sometimes politically tender.

外西凡尼亞的、外西凡尼亞人（形容詞或名詞皆可用）