fairy tale

See also: fairytale and fairy-tale

English

Alternative forms

Noun

fairy tale (plural fairy tales)

A folktale featuring fairies or similar fantasy characters.
I used to love reading fairy tales when I was a child.
A story presented as true that is not believable.
He's telling us another fairy tale about how great the software will be.
A delightful and ideal situation of a kind attained by very few.
I've been living in a fairy tale since I met Joe.

Translations

folktale

Afrikaans: sprokie
Albanian: përrallë (sq) f
Arabic: قِصَّة خُرَافِيَّة‎ f (qiṣṣa ḵurāfiyya), خُرَافَة‎ (ar) f (ḵurāfa), أُسْطُورَة‎ f (ʔusṭūra), حِكَايَة رَمْزِيَّة‎ f (ḥikāya ramziyya)
Aragonese: cuento de fadas m
Armenian: հեքիաթ (hy) (hekʿiatʿ)
Azerbaijani: nağıl (az)
Bashkir: әкиәт (äkiät)
Belarusian: ка́зка f (kázka), ба́йка (be) f (bájka)
Bengali: পরী কাহিনী (pori kahini), রূপকথা (rupkotha)
Berber:
Tashelhit: umiy m
Bulgarian: при́казка (bg) f (príkazka)
Burmese: ဒဏ္ဍာရီ (my) (dandari), သမိုင်း (my) (sa.muing:)
Catalan: conte de fades m
Chechen: туьйра (tüjra)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 童話／童话 (tung⁴ waa^6-2, tung⁴ waa⁶)

Dungan: гўҗер (gwži͡ər)

Mandarin: 童話／童话 (zh) (tónghuà), (folktale) 民間故事／民间故事 (zh) (mínjiān gùshi), (legend, myth) 神話／神话 (zh) (shénhuà)

Min Nan: 囡仔古 (gín-á-kó͘)

Wu: 童話／童话 (don hho)
Chuvash: юмах (jumah)
Czech: pohádka (cs) f
Danish: eventyr (da) n
Dutch: sprookje (nl) n
Esperanto: fabelo
Estonian: muinasjutt (et)
Faroese: ævintýr n
Finnish: satu (fi), kansansatu (fi)
French: conte de fées (fr) m, conte de fée (fr) m
Galician: conto de fadas
Georgian: ზღაპარი (zɣaṗari)
German: Märchen (de) n, Fabel (de) f
Alemannic German: Määrli n
Greek: παραμύθι (el) n (paramýthi)
Greenlandic: oqaluttualiaq
Hebrew: אַגָדָה‎ (he) f (agadá)
Hindi: परीकथा f (parīkathā)
Hungarian: tündérmese (hu), mese (hu)
Icelandic: ævintýri (is) n
Indonesian: dongeng (id)
Ingrian: kaaska
Irish: síscéal m, scéal sí m, amaidí f, bréag (ga) f, seafóid f, finscéal m
Italian: favola (it) f, fola (it) f, fiaba (it) f
Japanese: 童話 (ja) (どうわ, dōwa), おとぎ話 (おとぎばなし, otogibanashi), (folktale) 民話 (みんわ, minwa), (legend) 昔話 (むかしばなし, mukashibanashi), (legend, myth) 神話 (ja) (しんわ, shinwa), メルヘン (meruhen)
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: ертек (kk) (ertek), ертегі (ertegı)
Khmer: ទេពនិទាន (teip nitiən), រឿងព្រេង (rɨəng preing), និទាន (km) (nitiən), រឿងដំណាល (rɨəng dɑmnaal)
Komi-Zyrian: мойд (mojd)
Korean: 동화(童話) (ko) (donghwa), 민화(民話) (ko) (minhwa), 신화(神話) (ko) (sinhwa), 옛날이야기 (ko) (yennariyagi), 옛이야기 (ko) (yenniyagi), 메르헨 (mereuhen) (rare)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: çîvanok (ku), efsane (ku)
Kyrgyz: жомок (ky) (jomok), жөө жомок (jöö jomok)
Lao: ນິທານ (ni thān)
Latin: fabula (la) f, fabula divalis, fabula divalis, fabula mirabilis
Latvian: pasaka (lv) f
Lithuanian: pãsaka (lt) f
Low German: Määrken n, Fabel f
Luxembourgish: Märchen n
Macedonian: бајка f (bajka), сказна f (skazna), приказна f (prikazna)
Malay: dongeng
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: шидэт үлгэр (šidet ülger)
Nepali: बालकथा (bālakathā)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: eventyr (no) n

Nynorsk: eventyr n
Ossetian: аргъау (arǧaw)
Pashto: افسانه‎ (ps) f (afsāná)
Persian: افسانه‎ (fa) (afsâne)
Polish: bajka (pl) f, baśń (pl) f
Pontic Greek: παραμύθι (paramýthi), παραμέθι (paraméthi)
Portuguese: conto de fadas m
Romani: paramìsi f
Romanian: basm (ro) n
Romansch: paraula f
Russian: ска́зка (ru) f (skázka), (myth) миф (ru) m (mif), (legend) леге́нда (ru) f (legénda), (fable) ба́сня (ru) f (básnja), при́тча (ru) f (prítča), (unrealistic story, fable) ба́йка (ru) f (bájka)
Rusyn: приповідка f (prypovidka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ба̑јка f

Roman: bȃjka (sh) f
Shor: ныбақ (nybaq)
Slovak: rozprávka f
Slovene: pravljica (sl) f
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: bajka f
Spanish: cuento de hadas m
Swahili: hadithi ya vichimbakazi
Swedish: saga (sv) c
Tagalog: kuwentong bibit, kakana
Tajik: афсона (tg) (afsona), қисса (tg) (qissa), матал (matal)
Tatar: әкият (tt) (äkiyat)
Thai: เทพนิยาย (th) (têep-ní-yaai)
Tigrinya: ጽውጽዋይ (ṣəwṣəway)
Turkish: peri masalı (tr), masal (tr)
Turkmen: erteki
Tuvan: тоол (tool)
Ukrainian: ка́зка (uk) f (kázka), ба́йка (uk) f (bájka)
Urdu: پری کہانی‎ (parī kahānī)
Uyghur: چۆچەك‎ (chöchek)
Uzbek: ertak (uz), choʻpchak (uz)
Vietnamese: chuyện cổ tích (𡀯古跡), truyện cổ tích (傳古跡), đồng thoại (vi) (童話)
Volapük: mär (vo)
Welsh: chwedl (cy) f
Yakut: остуоруйа (ostuoruya)
Yiddish: מייַסעלע‎ (maysele)
Zazaki: estanık
Zhuang: gojgaeqfangz, saenzvah
Zulu: please add this translation if you can

unrealistic story

Belarusian: небылі́ца f (njebylíca), не́быль f (njébylʹ), ба́йка (be) f (bájka)
Bulgarian: измислица (bg) f (izmislica)
Chechen: туьйра (tüjra)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 誇張的故事／夸张的故事 (kuāzhāng de gùshi)
Finnish: satu (fi)
German: Märchen (de) n
Alemannic German: Määrli n
Greek: παραμύθι (el) n (paramýthi)
Javanese: dongèngan
Norwegian:
Bokmål: eventyr (no) n
Russian: ска́зка (ru) f (skázka), ба́йка (ru) f (bájka), небыли́ца (ru) f (nebylíca)
Spanish: fantasía (es) f
Ukrainian: небили́ця f (nebylýcja), ба́йка (uk) f (bájka)