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Etymology
From Ancient Greek Αἴσωπος (Aísōpos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈiːsɒp/
- Homophone: ESOP
Proper noun
Aesop
- An Ancient Greek author, famous for the fables ascribed to him.
1912, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov, published 1880, Book II, chapter 8:I'll win them by politeness, and... and... show them that I've nothing to do with that Aesop, that buffoon, that Pierrot, and have merely been taken in over this affair, just as they have.
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Translations
ancient Greek author
- Arabic: عَيْسُوب m (ʕaysūb), إِيسُوب m (ʔīsūb)
- Armenian: Եզոպոս (Ezopos)
- Old Armenian: Եսովպոս (Esovpos)
- Belarusian: Эзо́п m (Ezóp)
- Bengali: ঈসপ (iśop)
- Bulgarian: Езо́п m (Ezóp)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 伊索 (zh) (Yīsuǒ)
- Czech: Ezop m
- Danish: Aesop
- Finnish: Aisopos (fi)
- French: Ésope (fr) m
- Middle French: Æsope
- German: Äsop (de) m
- Greek: Αίσωπος (el) m (Aísopos)
- Ancient: Αἴσωπος m (Aísōpos)
- Hindi: ईसप m (īsap)
- Hungarian: (as a historical figure) Aiszóposz (hu), (in set phrases with “fables”) Ezópus
- Icelandic: Esóp m
- Italian: Esopo m
- Japanese: イソップ (Isoppu), アイソーポス (Aisōposu)
- Korean: 이솝 (Isop), 아이소포스 (Aisoposeu)
- Latin: Aesōpus (la) m
- Macedonian: Езоп m (Ezop)
- Marathi: ईसाप m (īsāp)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Æsop
- Nynorsk: Æsop
- Persian: ازوپ (ezop)
- Polish: Ezop (pl) m
- Portuguese: Esopo m
- Russian: Эзо́п (ru) m (Ezóp)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Езоп m
- Roman: Ezop m
- Slovak: Ezop m
- Spanish: Esopo m
- Swedish: Aisopos
- Thai: อีสป
- Turkish: Ezop
- Ukrainian: Езо́п m (Ezóp)
- Urdu: ایسپ m (īsap)
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