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.
An unrealistic story.
He's telling us another fairy tale about how great the software will be.

Translations

folktale

Afrikaans: sprokie
Albanian: përrallë (sq) f
Arabic: قِصَّة خُرَافِيَّة‎ f (qiṣṣa(t) ḵurāfiyya), خُرَافَة‎ (ar) f (ḵurāfa), أُسْطُورَة‎ f (ʾusṭūra), حِكَايَة رَمْزِيَّة‎ f (ḥikāya(t) ramziyya)
Aragonese: cuento de fadas m
Armenian: հեքիաթ (hy) (hekʿiatʿ)
Azerbaijani: nağıl (az)
Bashkir: әкиәт (äkiät)
Belarusian: ка́зка f (kázka)
Bengali: পরী কাহিনী (pôrī kahinī)
Berber:
Tashelhit: umiy m
Bulgarian: при́казка (bg) f (príkazka)
Burmese: ဒဏ္ဍာရီ (my) (dandari), သမိုင်း (my) (sa.muing:)
Catalan: conte de fades m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 童話 (zh), 童话 (zh) (tónghuà), (folktale) 民間故事 (zh), 民间故事 (zh) (mínjiān gùshi), (legend, myth) 神話 (zh), 神话 (zh) (shénhuà)
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
Greek: παραμύθι (el) n (paramýthi)
Greenlandic: oqaluttualiaq
Hebrew: אַגָדָה‎ (he) f (aggadah)
Hindi: परी कथा (parī kathā)
Hungarian: tündérmese (hu), mese (hu)
Icelandic: ævintýri (is) n
Indonesian: dongeng (id)
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)
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: ертек (kk) (ertek)
Khmer: ទេពនិទាន (teep nitiən), រឿងព្រេង (rɨəng preeng), និទាន (km) (nitiən), រឿងដំណាល (rɨəng dɑmnaal)
Komi-Zyrian: мойд (mojd)
Korean: 동화 (ko) (donghwa), 민화 (ko) (minhwa), 신화 (ko) (sinhwa)
Kyrgyz: жомок (ky) (comok), жөө жомок (cöö comok)
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: Mäerchen n
Macedonian: ба́јка f (bájka), ска́зна f (skázna), при́казна f (príkazna)
Malay: dongeng
Mongolian: шидэт үлгэр (šidet ülger)
Nepali: बालकथा (bālakathā)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: eventyr (no) n

Nynorsk: eventyr n
Ossetian: аргъау (arǧaw)
Persian: افسانه‎ (fa) (afsâne)
Polish: bajka (pl) f, baśń (pl) f
Portuguese: conto de fadas m
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: бајка f

Roman: bajka (sh) f
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) (äqiyat)
Thai: เทพนิยาย (th) (têep-ní-yaai)
Turkish: peri masalı (tr), masal (tr)
Turkmen: erteki
Ukrainian: ка́зка (uk) f (kázka)
Urdu: پری کہانی‎ (parī kahānī)
Uzbek: ertak (uz), choʻpchak (uz)
Vietnamese: chuyện cổ tích, truyện cổ tích, đồng thoại
Volapük: mär (vo)
Welsh: chwedl (cy) f
Yiddish: מייַסעלע‎ (maysele)
Zazaki: estanık
Zulu: please add this translation if you can

unrealistic story

Chinese:
Mandarin: 誇張的故事, 夸张的故事 (kuāzhāng de gùshi)
Finnish: satu (fi)
Greek: παραμύθι (el) n (paramýthi)

Javanese: dongèngan
Russian: ска́зка (ru) f (skázka), ба́йка (ru) f (bájka)
Spanish: please add this translation if you can