Rumpelstiltskin

English

Alternative forms

• Rumplestiltskin

Etymology

German Rumpelstilzchen

Proper noun

Rumpelstiltskin

1. A fairy tale about a dwarf who saves the miller’s daughter by spinning straw into gold in exchange for her first-born child, but is foiled when she guesses his name.
2. The fictional dwarf who is the title character of that story.

Synonyms

• English: Tom Tit Tot (from English Fairy Tales, collected & edited by Joseph Jacobs, 1884)

Translations

the fairy tale

• Albanian: Shkurtashtrembaluqi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 名字古怪的小矮人兒／名字古怪的小矮人儿 (Míngzì gǔguài de xiǎo ǎirénr)

• Czech: Rampelník (cs) m
• Dutch: Repelsteeltje n
• Finnish: Tittelintuure, Rompanruoja, Hopskukkeli
• French: Grigrigredinmenufretin (fr) m, Nain Tracassin
• Galician: please add this translation if you can
• German: Rumpelstilzchen n
• Greek: Ρουμπελστίλτσκιν m (Roumpelstíltskin)
• Hungarian: Tűzmanócska
• Italian: Tremotino m
• Japanese: ルンペルシュティルツキン (Runperushutirutsukin)
• Korean: 룸펠슈틸츠헨 (Rumpelsyutilcheuhen)
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: रम्पेलस्टिल्टस्किन f (rampelasṭilṭaskin)
• Polish: Hałasik m
• Portuguese: Rumpelstiltskin m, Rumpelstilzchen m, Rumpelstichen m
• Russian: Румпельшти́льцхен m (Rumpelʹštílʹcxen)
• Ukrainian: Румпельштільцхен m (Rumpelʹštilʹcxen)

the fictional dwarf

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 龍佩爾施迪爾欽／龙佩尔施迪尔钦 (Lóngpèi'ěrshīdí'ěrqīn), 侏儒妖 (Zhūrúyāo), 侏儒怪 (Zhūrúguài)

• Czech: Rumplcimprcampr (cs) m, Rampelník (cs) m
• Dutch: Repelsteeltje n
• Finnish: Tittelintuure, Rompanruoja, Hopskukkeli
• French: Grigrigredinmenufretin (fr) m, Barbichu (fr) m, Broumpristoche (fr) m, Outroupistache (fr) m, Perlimpinpin (fr) m, Tracassin (fr) m
• Galician: please add this translation if you can
• German: Rumpelstilzchen n
• Greek: Ρουμπελστίλτσκιν m (Roumpelstíltskin)
• Italian: Tremotino m
• Japanese: ルンペルシュティルツキン (Runperushutirutsukin)
• Korean: 룸펠슈틸츠헨 (Rumpelsyutilcheuhen)
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: रम्पेलस्टिल्टस्किन m (rampelasṭilṭaskin)
• Polish: Titelitury, Rumpelsztyk m, Hałasik m, Rupiec-Kopeć m
• Portuguese: Rumpelstiltskin m, Rumpelstilzchen m, Rumpelstichen m
• Russian: Румпельшти́льцхен m (Rumpelʹštílʹcxen)
• Slovak: Martinko Klingáč m
• Ukrainian: Румпельштільцхен m (Rumpelʹštilʹcxen)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} עוץ לי גוץ לי (utz li gutz li)
• Spanish: (literal translation: the jumping midget) ^{(please verify)} El enano saltarín m

Further reading

• Rumpelstiltskin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Rumplestiltskin