What does Ghoul mean in japanese?


I know what a Ghoul is in the context of the Tokyo Ghoul series, but I was
wondering what does Ghoul mean in japanese. Is it a made up word or it is the
same "Ghoul" from Arabic? What do the kanji which composes the word mean
separately?




If you look at the word for ghoul as it's written in the title of Tokyo Ghoul,
you can see that there's both kanji and furigana (pronunciation) for it. The
furigana is グール, which the katakana word for ghoul. It's a phonetic loanword,
pronounced guuru, which ([based on the Japanese Wikipedia page for
it](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB)) seems to have
been taken from the English "ghoul", which was of course taken from the Arabic
al ghûl.

The kanji, 喰種, doesn't seem to directly translate to anything, but 喰 means
[eat](https://jisho.org/search/%E5%96%B0%20%23kanji) and 種 translates to a
number of things, but the most relevant ones here are [species or
kind](https://jisho.org/search/%E7%A8%AE%20%23kanji). Basically, it can be
loosely translated to a species that eats.




If you look at the word for ghoul as it's written in the title of Tokyo Ghoul,
you can see that there's both kanji and furigana (pronunciation) for it. The
furigana is グール, which the katakana word for ghoul. It's a phonetic loanword,
pronounced guuru, which ([based on the Japanese Wikipedia page for
it](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB)) seems to have
been taken from the English "ghoul", which was of course taken from the Arabic
al ghûl.

The kanji, 喰種, doesn't seem to directly translate to anything, but 喰 means
[eat](https://jisho.org/search/%E5%96%B0%20%23kanji) and 種 translates to a
number of things, but the most relevant ones here are [species or
kind](https://jisho.org/search/%E7%A8%AE%20%23kanji). Basically, it can be
loosely translated to a species that eats.

