fairy godmother

English

Illustration to Cinderella by Gustave Doré: the fairy godmother preparing an enchantment for her goddaughter.

Noun

fairy godmother (plural fairy godmothers)

In certain fairy tales, a fictional benevolent woman with magical powers who uses them to help the cause of the protagonist.
I thought it was clever the director cast the same woman to play both the Wicked Witch and Prince Charming's fairy godmother.
(by extension) Any generous benefactor.
- 2007, Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons, tr. Helen Constantine, Penguin 2007, p. 195:
  How lucky you are to have me for a friend! I am a fairy godmother to you!

Related terms

fairy godfather

Translations

benevolent magical female

Catalan: fada madrina f
Czech: dobrá víla
Dutch: goede fee f
Esperanto: feina baptopatrino
Estonian: haldjast ristiema
Finnish: hyvä haltiatar
French: fée marraine f
German: gute Fee f

Hungarian: jó tündér
Italian: fata madrina f
Japanese: フェアリー・ゴッドマザー (fearī goddomazā)
Kyrgyz: фея (ky) (feya)
Portuguese: fada madrinha f
Russian: до́брая фе́я f (dóbraja féja), фе́я-крёстная f (féja-krjóstnaja)
Spanish: hada madrina f
Swedish: god fe

generous benefactor

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 恩人 (zh) (ēnrén), 救星 (zh) (jiùxīng)
Dutch: weldoenster f
Finnish: hyvä haltiatar
French: donateur (fr) m
German: Wohltäter (de) m
Hungarian: jótevő (hu)

Italian: madrina (it) f, benefattore (it) m, benefattrice f
Japanese: 恩人 (ja) (onjin)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Portuguese: benfeitor (pt) m, filantropo (pt) m
Russian: покрови́тельница (ru) f (pokrovítelʹnica)
Spanish: benefactor (es) m
Swedish: välgörare
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

Macedonian: добра вила (dóbra víla) f

Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} dobra vila f

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.