short story

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129 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: kortverhaal — work of fiction
• Albanian: histori e shkurtër — work of fiction
• Albanian: tregim — work of fiction
• Arabic: قِصَّة قَصِيرَة (qiṣṣa qaṣīra) — work of fiction
• Arabic: أُقْصُوصَة (ʔuqṣūṣa) — work of fiction
• Armenian: պատմվածք (patmvackʻ) — work of fiction
• Assamese: চুটিগল্প (sutigolpo) — work of fiction
• Azerbaijani: novella — work of fiction
• Azerbaijani: qısa hekayə — work of fiction
• Azerbaijani: hekayə — work of fiction
• Bashkir: хикәйә (xikəyə) — work of fiction
• Belarusian: апавяда́нне (apavjadánnje) — work of fiction
• Belarusian: апавяда́ньне (apavjadánʹnje) — work of fiction
• Belarusian: навэ́ла (navéla) — work of fiction
• Belarusian: апо́весць (apóvjescʹ) — work of fiction
• Belarusian: апо́весьць (apóvjesʹcʹ) — work of fiction
• Belarusian: по́весць (póvjescʹ) — work of fiction
• Belarusian: по́весьць (póvjesʹcʹ) — work of fiction
• Bengali: ছোটগল্প (chōṭgolpo) — work of fiction
• Central Bikol: rikas-usipon — work of fiction
• Bulgarian: ра́зказ (rázkaz) — work of fiction
• Catalan: conte — work of fiction
• Chinese Cantonese: 短篇小說 /短篇小说 (dyun2 pin1 siu2 syut3) — work of fiction
• Chinese Mandarin: 短篇小說 /短篇小说 (duǎnpiān xiǎoshuō) — work of fiction
• Czech: povídka — work of fiction
• Czech: novela — work of fiction
• Danish: novelle — work of fiction
• Dutch: kort verhaal — work of fiction
• Esperanto: novelo — work of fiction
• Estonian: novell — work of fiction
• Finnish: novelli — work of fiction
• French: nouvelle — work of fiction
• French: conte — work of fiction
• French: récit court — work of fiction
• Georgian: მოთხრობა (motxroba) — work of fiction
• German: Kurzgeschichte — work of fiction
• German: Erzählung — work of fiction
• German: Novelle — work of fiction
• Greek: διήγημα (diígima) — work of fiction
• Gujarati: ટૂંકી વાર્તા (ṭū̃kī vārtā) — work of fiction
• Hebrew: סִפּוּר קָצָר — work of fiction
• Hebrew: סיפור קצר (sipúr katsár) — work of fiction
• Hindi: लघुकथा (laghukthā) — work of fiction
• Hungarian: elbeszélés — work of fiction
• Hungarian: novella — work of fiction
• Icelandic: smásaga — work of fiction
• Indonesian: cerita pendek — work of fiction
• Indonesian: cerpen — work of fiction
• Irish: gearrscéal — work of fiction
• Italian: racconto — work of fiction
• Japanese: 短編小説 (tanpen shōsetsu) — work of fiction
• Japanese: ショートストーリー (shōto sutōrī) — work of fiction
• Japanese: 短編 (tanpen) — work of fiction
• Kashubian: òpòwiôdanié — work of fiction
• Kazakh: әңгіме (äñgıme) — work of fiction
• Khmer: រឿងខ្លី (rɨəng khləy) — work of fiction
• Korean: 단편 소설 (danpyeon soseol) — work of fiction
• Korean: 단편 (danpyeon) — work of fiction
• Central Kurdish: کورتە چیرۆک (kurte çîrok) — work of fiction
• Northern Kurdish: kurteçîrok — work of fiction
• Kyrgyz: аңгеме (aŋgeme) — work of fiction
• Latvian: stāsts — work of fiction
• Latvian: novele — work of fiction
• Lithuanian: apsakymas — work of fiction
• Lithuanian: novelė — work of fiction
• Macedonian: расказ (raskaz) — work of fiction
• Malay: cerpen — work of fiction
• Malay: cerita pendek — work of fiction
• Māori: pakipoto — work of fiction
• Mongolian: тууж (tuuž) — work of fiction
• Mongolian: өгүүллэг (ögüülleg) — work of fiction
• Mongolian: богино өгүүллэг (bogino ögüülleg) — work of fiction
• Norwegian Bokmål: novelle — work of fiction
• Norwegian Nynorsk: novelle — work of fiction
• Pashto: داستان (dāstãn) — work of fiction
• Pashto: لنډه کيسه (lanḍa kisa) — work of fiction
• Iranian Persian: داسْتانِ کوتاه (dâstân-e kutâh) — work of fiction
• Iranian Persian: داسْتان (dâstân) — work of fiction
• Polish: opowiadanie — work of fiction
• Polish: opowiadanko — work of fiction
• Polish: opowiastka — work of fiction
• Polish: powiastka — work of fiction
• Portuguese: conto — work of fiction
• Punjabi: ਨਿੱਕੀ ਕਹਾਣੀ (nikkī kahāṇī) — work of fiction
• Romanian: povestire — work of fiction
• Romanian: nuvelă — work of fiction
• Russian: расска́з (rasskáz) — work of fiction
• Russian: нове́лла (novɛ́lla) — work of fiction
• Russian: по́весть (póvestʹ) — work of fiction
• Serbo-Croatian: при̏пове̄тка — work of fiction
• Serbo-Croatian: при̏повије̄тка — work of fiction
• Serbo-Croatian: новѐла — work of fiction
• Serbo-Croatian: кратка прича — work of fiction
• Serbo-Croatian: prȉpovētka — work of fiction
• Serbo-Croatian: prȉpovijētka — work of fiction
• Serbo-Croatian: novèla — work of fiction
• Serbo-Croatian: kratka priča — work of fiction
• Slovak: poviedka — work of fiction
• Slovak: novela — work of fiction
• Slovene: kratka zgodba — work of fiction
• Slovene: novela — work of fiction
• Spanish: cuento — work of fiction
• Spanish: relato corto — work of fiction
• Spanish: narrativa breve — work of fiction
• Swahili: hadithi fupi — work of fiction
• Swedish: novell — work of fiction
• Tagalog: maikling kuwento — work of fiction
• Tajik: ҳикоя (hikoya) — work of fiction
• Tajik: нақл (naql) — work of fiction
• Tajik: баён (bayon) — work of fiction
• Tajik: достони кӯтоҳ (doston-i kütoh) — work of fiction
• Tajik: достон (doston) — work of fiction
• Tamil: சிறுகதை (ciṟukatai) — work of fiction
• Tatar: хикәя (xikäyä) — work of fiction
• Thai: เรื่องสั้น (rʉ̂ʉang-sân) — work of fiction
• Turkish: kısa hikâye — work of fiction
• Turkish: kısa öykü — work of fiction
• Turkmen: hekaýa — work of fiction
• Udmurt: выльверос (vyľveros) — work of fiction
• Ukrainian: оповіда́ння (opovidánnja) — work of fiction
• Ukrainian: нове́ла (novéla) — work of fiction
• Ukrainian: по́вість (póvistʹ) — work of fiction
• Urdu: اَفْسانَہ (afsāna) — work of fiction
• Urdu: مُخْتَصَر کَہانی (muxtasar kahānī) — work of fiction
• Uyghur: ھېكايە (hëkaye) — work of fiction
• Uzbek: hikoya — work of fiction
• Vietnamese: truyện ngắn — work of fiction
• Vietnamese: chuyện — work of fiction
• Welsh: stori fer — work of fiction