Pinocchio

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• UK: /pɪˈnəʊ.kjəʊ/
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• UK: /pɪˈnəʊ.kɪ.əʊ/
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• US: /pɪˈnoʊ.ki.oʊ/
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• rhymes with -əʊkiəʊ
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• CMU ARPABET: P IH0 N OW1 K IY0 OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Italian Pinocchio, possibly from the rare Tuscan form pinocchio (“pine nut”) or constructed from pino (“pine tree, pine wood”), also similar to Pino, diminutive of Giuseppe (“Joseph”), as is Geppetto (the maker of Pinocchio).

82 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: Pinoku — protagonist
• Arabic: بِينُوكْيُو (bīnūkyū) — protagonist
• Armenian: Պինոկիո (Pinokio) — protagonist
• Azerbaijani: Pinokkio — protagonist
• Basque: Pinotxo — protagonist
• Belarusian: Піно́кіа (Pinókia) — protagonist
• Bulgarian: Пинокио (Pinokio) — protagonist
• Catalan: Pinotxo — protagonist
• Chinese Cantonese: 皮諾曹 /皮诺曹 (pei4 nok6 cou4) — protagonist
• Chinese Cantonese: 皮諾丘 /皮诺丘 (pei4 nok6 jau1) — protagonist
• Chinese Mandarin: 皮諾喬 /皮诺乔 (Pínuòqiáo) — protagonist
• Chinese Mandarin: 皮諾曹 /皮诺曹 (Pínuòcáo) — protagonist
• Chinese Mandarin: 匹諾曹 /匹诺曹 (Pǐnuòcáo) — protagonist
• Danish: Pinocchio — protagonist
• Dutch: Pinokkio — protagonist
• Esperanto: Pinokjo — protagonist
• Finnish: Pinokkio — protagonist
• French: Pinocchio — protagonist
• Galician: Pinocho — protagonist
• Georgian: პინოქიო (ṗinokio) — protagonist
• German: Pinocchio — protagonist
• Greek: Πινόκιο (Pinókio) — protagonist
• Hebrew: פִינוֹקִיוֹ (Pinókio) — protagonist
• Hindi: पिनोकियो (pinokiyo) — protagonist
• Hungarian: Pinokkió — protagonist
• Icelandic: Gosi — protagonist
• Indonesian: Pinokio — protagonist
• Italian: Pinocchio — protagonist
• Japanese: ピノキオ (Pinokio) — protagonist
• Japanese: ピノッキオ (Pinokkio) — protagonist
• Korean: 피노키오 (Pinokio) — protagonist
• Central Kurdish: پینوکیو (pînukîw) — protagonist
• Latin: Pīnoculus — protagonist
• Lithuanian: Pinocchio — protagonist
• Macedonian: Пино́кио (Pinókio) — protagonist
• Malay: Pinokio — protagonist
• Malayalam: പിനോക്യോ (pinōkyō) — protagonist
• Norwegian: Pinocchio — protagonist
• Occitan: Pinòqui — protagonist
• Persian: پینوکیو — protagonist
• Polish: Pinokio — protagonist
• Portuguese: Pinóquio — protagonist
• Portuguese: Pinocchio — protagonist
• Romanian: Pinocchio — protagonist
• Russian: Пино́ккио (Pinókkio) — protagonist
• Serbo-Croatian: Пинокио — protagonist
• Serbo-Croatian: Pinokio — protagonist
• Sicilian: Pinocchiu — protagonist
• Slovak: Pinocchio — protagonist
• Slovene: Ostržek — protagonist
• Spanish: Pinocho — protagonist
• Swahili: Pinokyo — protagonist
• Swedish: Pinocchio — protagonist
• Tamil: பின்னோகியோ (piṉṉōkiyō) — protagonist
• Telugu: పినోకియో (pinōkiyō) — protagonist
• Thai: ปิน็อกกีโอ (bpì-nɔ́k-gii-oo) — protagonist
• Turkish: Pinokyo — protagonist
• Ukrainian: Піно́ккіо (Pinókkio) — protagonist
• Vietnamese: Pinocchio — protagonist
• Chinese Mandarin: 匹諾曹 /匹诺曹 (Pǐnuòcáo) — fairy tale
• Danish: Pinocchio — fairy tale
• Dutch: Pinokkio — fairy tale
• Esperanto: Pinokjo — fairy tale
• Finnish: Pinokkio — fairy tale
• French: Pinocchio — fairy tale
• German: Pinocchio — fairy tale
• Hebrew: פִינוֹקִיוֹ (Pinókio) — fairy tale
• Icelandic: Gosi — fairy tale
• Italian: Pinocchio — fairy tale
• Latin: Pīnoculus — fairy tale
• Macedonian: Пино́кио (Pinókio) — fairy tale
• Malay: Pinokio — fairy tale
• Polish: Pinokio — fairy tale
• Portuguese: Pinóquio — fairy tale
• Portuguese: Pinocchio — fairy tale
• Romanian: Pinocchio — fairy tale
• Spanish: Pinocho — fairy tale
• Thai: ปิน็อกกีโอ (bpì-nɔ́k-gii-oo) — fairy tale
• Turkish: Pinokyo — fairy tale
• Portuguese: Pinóquio — one who lies often
• Portuguese: pinóquio — one who lies often
• Spanish: pinocho — one who lies often