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fortune-telling

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The act or practice of predicting the future (especially for money), as by using a crystal ball, reading palms, reading tea leaves in a cup, etc.; prediction of future events, especially those of a personal nature.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

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Across languages

Translations

33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: عَرَافَة (ʕarāfa) — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Azerbaijani: fal — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Burmese: ဗေဒင် (bedang) — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Chinese Mandarin: 占卜 (zhānbǔ) — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Esperanto: aŭgurado — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Estonian: ennustamine — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Ewe: afakaka — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Finnish: ennustaminen — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • French: bonne aventure — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Georgian: მკითხაობა (mḳitxaoba) — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • German: Wahrsagen — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • German: Wahrsagerei — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Hausa: haɗɗī̀ — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Hungarian: jóslás — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Hungarian: jövendőmondás — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Italian: divinazione — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Japanese: 占い (uranai) — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Latin: hariolatio — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Polish: wróżbiarstwo — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Polish: wróżenie — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Portuguese: adivinhação — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Romanian: prezicere — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Russian: гада́ние (gadánije) — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Russian: ворожба́ (vorožbá) — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Swedish: spådom — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Telugu: సోదె (sōde) — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Turkish: fal — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Ottoman Turkish: فال (fal) — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Vietnamese: bói — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Vietnamese: bói toán — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Volapük: büosag — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Volapük: büosagam — fortunetelling, predicting one's future
  • Welsh: darogan — fortunetelling, predicting one's future