short story

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Noun

short story (plural short stories)

A work of fiction that is shorter than a novella.

Related terms

short short story

Translations

work of fiction

Afrikaans: kortverhaal
Albanian: histori e shkurtër f, tregim (sq) m
Arabic: قِصَّة قَصِيرَة‎ f (qiṣṣa qaṣīra), أُقْصُوصَة‎ f (ʔuqṣūṣa)
Armenian: պատմվածք (hy) (patmvackʿ)
Assamese: চুটিগল্প (sutigolpo)
Azerbaijani: novella, qısa hekayə, hekayə (az)
Bashkir: хикәйә (xikäyä)
Belarusian: апавяда́нне n (apavjadánnje), апавяда́ньне n (apavjadánʹnje), навэ́ла f (navéla)
Bengali: ছোটগল্প (chōṭogolpo)
Bikol Central: rikas-usipon
Bulgarian: разка́з (bg) m (razkáz)
Catalan: conte (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 短篇小說／短篇小说 (dyun² pin¹ siu² syut³) (dyun2 pin1 siu2 syut3)

Mandarin: 短篇小說／短篇小说 (zh) (duǎnpiān xiǎoshuō)
Czech: povídka (cs) f, novela (cs) f
Danish: novelle (da) c
Dutch: kort verhaal (nl) n
Esperanto: novelo
Estonian: novell (et)
Finnish: novelli (fi)
French: nouvelle (fr) f, conte (fr) m, récit court m
Georgian: მოთხრობა (motxroba)
German: Kurzgeschichte (de) f, Erzählung (de) f, Novelle (de) f
Greek: διήγημα (el) n (diígima)
Gujarati: ટૂંકી વાર્તા (ṭū̃kī vārtā)
Hebrew: סִפּוּר קָצָר / סיפור קצר‎ (he) m (sipúr katsár)
Hindi: लघुकथा m (laghukthā)
Hungarian: elbeszélés (hu), novella (hu)
Icelandic: smásaga f
Indonesian: cerita pendek (id), cerpen (id)
Irish: gearrscéal m
Italian: racconto (it) m
Japanese: 短編小説 (たんぺんしょうせつ, tanpen shōsetsu), ショートストーリー (shōto sutōrī)
Kazakh: әңгіме (kk) (äñgıme)
Khmer: រឿងខ្លី (rɨəng khləy)
Korean: 단편 소설(短篇小說) (ko) (danpyeon soseol)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: کورتە چیرۆک‎ (kurte çîrok)

Northern Kurdish: kurteçîrok (ku)
Kyrgyz: аңгеме (ky) (aŋgeme)
Latvian: stāsts (lv) m, novele f
Lithuanian: apsakymas m, novelė f
Macedonian: расказ m (raskaz)
Malay: cerpen (ms), cerita pendek
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: тууж (mn) (tuuž), өгүүллэг (mn) (ögüülleg), богино өгүүллэг (bogino ögüülleg)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: novelle (no) m or f

Nynorsk: novelle f
Pashto: داستان‎ (ps) m (dāstãn)
Persian: داستان کوتاه‎ (fa) (dâstân-e kutâh), داستان‎ (fa) (dâstân)
Polish: opowiadanie (pl) n, opowiadanko n, opowiastka (pl) f, powiastka (pl) f
Portuguese: conto (pt) m
Punjabi: ਨਿੱਕੀ ਕਹਾਣੀ f (nikkī kahāṇī)
Romanian: povestire (ro) f, nuvelă (ro) f
Russian: расска́з (ru) m (rasskáz), нове́лла (ru) f (novɛ́lla), по́весть (ru) f (póvestʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: при̏пове̄тка f, при̏повије̄тка f, новѐла f, кратка прича f

Roman: prȉpovētka (sh) f, prȉpovijētka (sh) f, novèla (sh) f, kratka priča f
Slovak: poviedka f, novela f
Slovene: kratka zgodba f, novela f
Spanish: cuento (es) m, relato corto m, narrativa breve f
Swedish: novell (sv) c
Tagalog: maikling kuwento
Tajik: ҳикоя (hikoya), нақл (tg) (naql), баён (tg) (bayon), достони кӯтоҳ (tg) (dostoni kütoh), достон (tg) (doston)
Tamil: ^{(please verify)} சிறுகதை (ta) (ciṟukatai)
Tatar: хикәя (tt) (xikäya)
Thai: เรื่องสั้น (rʉ̂ʉang-sân)
Turkish: kısa öykü, kısa hikâye, hikâye (tr), öykü (tr)
Turkmen: hekaýa
Ukrainian: оповіда́ння n (opovidánnja), нове́ла (uk) f (novéla)
Uyghur: ھېكايە‎ (hëkaye)
Uzbek: hikoya (uz)
Vietnamese: truyện ngắn (vi), chuyện (vi)
Welsh: stori fer (cy) f

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