fairy tale

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• General-American: /ˈfɛɹi ˌteɪl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfeəɹi ˌteɪl/
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Calque of French conte de fées, coined by French writer Madame d'Aulnoy in the late 17th century.

188 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: sprokie — folktale
• Albanian: përrallë — folktale
• Northern Altai: чӧрджек (čördžek) — folktale
• Southern Altai: чӧрчӧк (čörčök) — folktale
• Arabic: قِصَّة خُرَافِيَّة (qiṣṣa ḵurāfiyya) — folktale
• Arabic: خُرَافَة (ḵurāfa) — folktale
• Arabic: أُسْطُورَة (ʔusṭūra) — folktale
• Arabic: حِكَايَة رَمْزِيَّة (ḥikāya ramziyya) — folktale
• Aragonese: cuento de fadas — folktale
• Armenian: հեքիաթ (hekʻiatʻ) — folktale
• Azerbaijani: nağıl — folktale
• Bashkir: әкиәт (əkiət) — folktale
• Belarusian: ка́зка (kázka) — folktale
• Belarusian: ба́йка (bájka) — folktale
• Bengali: রূপকথা (rupkotha) — folktale
• Bulgarian: при́казка (príkazka) — folktale
• Burmese: ဒဏ္ဍာရီ (dandari) — folktale
• Burmese: သမိုင်း (sa.muing:) — folktale
• Carpathian Rusyn: приповідка (prypovidka) — folktale
• Catalan: conte de fades — folktale
• Chechen: туьйра (tüüra) — folktale
• Chinese Cantonese: 童話 /童话 — folktale
• Chinese Cantonese: 神話 /神话 — folktale
• Chinese: гўҗер (gwjiər) — folktale
• Chinese: 囡仔古 (gín-á-kó͘) — folktale
• Chinese: 童話 /童话 (zh-min-nan) — folktale
• Chinese: 神話 /神话 (zh-min-nan) — folktale
• Chinese Mandarin: 童話 /童话 (tónghuà) — folktale
• Chinese Mandarin: 民間故事 /民间故事 (folktale) — folktale
• Chinese Mandarin: 神話 /神话 (shénhuà) — folktale
• Chinese Mandarin: 精怪故事 (jīngguài gùshì) — folktale
• Wu Chinese: 童話 /童话 (6don-gho) — folktale
• Wu Chinese: 神話 /神话 (6zen-gho) — folktale
• Chuvash: юмах (jumah) — folktale
• Czech: pohádka — folktale
• Danish: eventyr — folktale
• Dutch: sprookje — folktale
• Esperanto: fabelo — folktale
• Estonian: muinasjutt — folktale
• Faroese: ævintýr — folktale
• Finnish: satu — folktale
• Finnish: kansansatu — folktale
• French: conte de fées — folktale
• French: conte de fée — folktale
• Galician: conto de fadas — folktale
• Georgian: ზღაპარი (zɣaṗari) — folktale
• German: Märchen — folktale
• German: Fabel — folktale
• German: Määrli — folktale
• Greek: παραμύθι (paramýthi) — folktale
• Pontic Greek: παραμύθι (paramýthi) — folktale
• Pontic Greek: παραμέθι (paraméthi) — folktale
• Greenlandic: oqaluttualiaq — folktale
• Hebrew: אַגָדָה (agadá) — folktale
• Hindi: परीकथा (parīkathā) — folktale
• Hindi: परियों की कहानी (pariyõ kī kahānī) — folktale
• Hungarian: tündérmese — folktale
• Hungarian: mese — folktale
• Icelandic: ævintýri — folktale
• Indonesian: dongeng — folktale
• Ingrian: kaaska — folktale
• Irish: síscéal — folktale
• Irish: scéal sí — folktale
• Irish: amaidí — folktale
• Irish: bréag — folktale
• Irish: seafóid — folktale
• Irish: finscéal — folktale
• Italian: favola — folktale
• Italian: fola — folktale
• Italian: fiaba — folktale
• Japanese: 童話 (dōwa) — folktale
• Japanese: おとぎ話 (otogibanashi) — folktale
• Japanese: 民話 (folktale) — folktale
• Japanese: 昔話 (mukashibanashi) — folktale
• Japanese: 神話 (shinwa) — folktale
• Japanese: メルヘン (meruhen) — folktale
• Kazakh: ертек (ertek) — folktale
• Kazakh: ертегі (ertegı) — folktale
• Khmer: ទេពនិទាន (teip nitiən) — folktale
• Khmer: រឿងព្រេង (rɨəng preing) — folktale
• Khmer: និទាន (nitiən) — folktale
• Khmer: រឿងដំណាល (rɨəng dɑmnaal) — folktale
• Komi-Zyrian: мойд (mojd) — folktale
• Korean: 동화 (donghwa) — folktale
• Korean: 민화 (minhwa) — folktale
• Korean: 신화 (sinhwa) — folktale
• Korean: 옛날이야기 (yennariyagi) — folktale
• Korean: 옛이야기 (yenniyagi) — folktale
• Korean: 메르헨 (mereuhen) — folktale
• Northern Kurdish: çîvanok — folktale
• Northern Kurdish: efsane — folktale
• Kyrgyz: жомок (jomok) — folktale
• Kyrgyz: жөө жомок (jöö jomok) — folktale
• Lao: ນິທານ (ni thān) — folktale
• Latin: fabula — folktale
• Latin: fabula divalis — folktale
• Latin: fabula mirabilis — folktale
• Latvian: pasaka — folktale
• Lithuanian: pãsaka — folktale
• Low German: Määrken — folktale
• Low German: Fabel — folktale
• Luxembourgish: Märchen — folktale
• Macedonian: бајка (bajka) — folktale
• Macedonian: сказна (skazna) — folktale
• Macedonian: приказна (prikazna) — folktale
• Malay: dongeng — folktale
• Mongolian: шидэт үлгэр (šidet ülger) — folktale
• Nepali: बालकथा (bālakathā) — folktale
• Norwegian Bokmål: eventyr — folktale
• Norwegian Nynorsk: eventyr — folktale
• Ossetian: аргъау (arǧaw) — folktale
• Pannonian Rusyn: сказка (skazka) — folktale
• Pashto: افسانه (afsāna) — folktale
• Persian: اَفْسَانَه (afsāna) — folktale
• Iranian Persian: اَفْسانِه (afsâne) — folktale
• Polish: bajka — folktale
• Polish: baśń — folktale
• Portuguese: conto de fadas — folktale
• Romani: paramìsi — folktale
• Romanian: basm — folktale
• Romansh: paraula — folktale
• Russian: ска́зка (skázka) — folktale
• Russian: миф (mif) — folktale
• Russian: леге́нда (legénda) — folktale
• Russian: ба́сня (básnja) — folktale
• Russian: при́тча (prítča) — folktale
• Russian: ба́йка (bájka) — folktale
• Serbo-Croatian: ба̑јка — folktale
• Serbo-Croatian: bȃjka — folktale
• Shor: ныбақ (nybaq) — folktale
• Slovak: rozprávka — folktale
• Slovene: pravljica — folktale
• Upper Sorbian: bajka — folktale
• Spanish: cuento de hadas — folktale
• Spanish: relato de fadas — folktale
• Swahili: hadithi ya vichimbakazi — folktale
• Swedish: saga — folktale
• Tagalog: kuwentong bibit — folktale
• Tagalog: kakana — folktale
• Tajik: афсона (afsona) — folktale
• Tajik: қисса (qissa) — folktale
• Tajik: матал (matal) — folktale
• Tashelhit: umiy — folktale
• Tatar: әкият (äkiyät) — folktale
• Thai: เทพนิยาย (têep-ní-yaai) — folktale
• Tigrinya: ጽውጽዋይ (ṣəwṣəway) — folktale
• Turkish: peri masalı — folktale
• Turkish: masal — folktale
• Ottoman Turkish: مثل (mes̱el) — folktale
• Turkmen: erteki — folktale
• Tuvan: тоол (tool) — folktale
• Ukrainian: ка́зка (kázka) — folktale
• Ukrainian: ба́йка (bájka) — folktale
• Urdu: پَری کَہانی (parī kahānī) — folktale
• Urdu: اَفْسانَہ (afsāna) — folktale
• Urdu: پَرْیوں کی کَہانی (paryõ kī kahānī) — folktale
• Uyghur: چۆچەك (chöchek) — folktale
• Uzbek: ertak — folktale
• Uzbek: choʻpchak — folktale
• Vietnamese: chuyện cổ tích — folktale
• Vietnamese: truyện cổ tích — folktale
• Vietnamese: đồng thoại — folktale
• Volapük: mär — folktale
• Welsh: chwedl — folktale
• Yakut: остуоруйа (ostuoruya) — folktale
• Yiddish: מייַסעלע (maysele) — folktale
• Zazaki: estanık — folktale
• Zhuang: gojgaeqfangz — folktale
• Zhuang: saenzvah — folktale
• Belarusian: небылі́ца (njebylíca) — unrealistic story
• Belarusian: не́быль (njébylʹ) — unrealistic story
• Belarusian: ба́йка (bájka) — unrealistic story
• Bulgarian: измислица (izmislica) — unrealistic story
• Chechen: туьйра (tüüra) — unrealistic story
• Chinese Mandarin: 誇張的故事 /夸张的故事 (kuāzhāng de gùshi) — unrealistic story
• Finnish: satu — unrealistic story
• German: Märchen — unrealistic story
• German: Määrli — unrealistic story
• Greek: παραμύθι (paramýthi) — unrealistic story
• Javanese: dongèngan — unrealistic story
• Norwegian Bokmål: eventyr — unrealistic story
• Polish: bajka — unrealistic story
• Russian: ска́зка (skázka) — unrealistic story
• Russian: ба́йка (bájka) — unrealistic story
• Russian: небыли́ца (nebylíca) — unrealistic story
• Spanish: fantasía — unrealistic story
• Ukrainian: небили́ця (nebylýcja) — unrealistic story
• Ukrainian: ба́йка (bájka) — unrealistic story