English
Etymology
From folk + tale.
Pronunciation
Noun
folktale (plural folktales)
- A tale or story that is part of the oral tradition of a people or a place.
- Synonym: folk story
Translations
story that is part of the oral tradition of a people
- Arabic: حِكَايَة خُرَافِيَّة f (ḥikāya ḵurāfiyya)
- Belarusian: наро́дная ка́зка f (naródnaja kázka)
- Berber:
- Tashelhit: umiy m
- Catalan: rondalla (ca) f, cuento (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 民間故事 / 民间故事 (zh) (mínjiān gùshì), 民間傳說 / 民间传说 (zh) (mínjiān chuánshuō)
- Danish: folkesagn n
- Dutch: volksverhaal (nl) n
- Finnish: kansantaru (fi)
- French: conte (fr) f, conte populaire f
- Galician: conto popular m
- German: Volksmärchen (de) n, Märchen (de) n
- Alemannic German: Volksmäärli n
- Hungarian: népmese (hu)
- Indonesian: cerita rakyat (id)
- Japanese: 民間説話 (みんかんせつわ, minkan setsuwa), 民話 (ja) (みんわ, minwa), 昔話 (ja) (むかしばなし, mukashibanashi) (old tale)
- Korean: 동화(童話) (ko) (donghwa), 민화(民話) (ko) (minhwa), 민간 설화(民間說話) (min'gan seolhwa), 옛날이야기 (ko) (yennalliyagi) (old tale), 옛이야기 (ko) (yenniyagi) (old tale)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: meselok (ku) f
- Latin: fabula (la)
- Latvian: pasaka (lv) f, teika f
- Mizo: thawnthurochun
- Polish: bajka ludowa f
- Portuguese: conto popular m
- Romani: paramìsi f
- Russian: наро́дная ска́зка f (naródnaja skázka), ска́зка (ru) f (skázka)
- Spanish: leyenda (es) f
- Swedish: folksaga (sv) c
- Tagalog: kuwentong-bayan
- Thai: นิทานชาวบ้าน, นิทานพื้นบ้าน
- Ukrainian: наро́дна ка́зка f (naródna kázka)
- Vietnamese: truyện dân gian
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