fiancé

English

Alternative forms

• fiance

Etymology

From French fiancé.

Pronunciation

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Noun

fiancé (plural fiancés)

1. A man who is engaged to be married.
2. A person engaged to be married.
   • 2009, B. R. Laine, Tales from Suffolk County, page 107:

     West said that she was proud of their relationship and is looking forward to meeting his fiancé.

Related terms

• If one follows French spelling, a fiancée is a woman who is engaged to be married. Fiancé is the male equivalent.

Translations

man who is engaged to be married

• Arabic: خطيب (ar) (xaṭīb) m
• Armenian: փեսա (hy) (p'esa), փեսացու (hy) (p'esac'u)
• Belarusian: жаніх (be) (žaníx) m
• Bulgarian: годеник (bg) (godeník) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 未婚夫 (cmn) (wèihūnfū)

• Czech: snoubenec (cs) m
• Dalmatian: ninapto m
• Danish: forlovet (da), forlovede (da)
• Dutch: verloofde (nl) m
• Esperanto: fianĉo (eo)
• Finnish: sulhanen (fi)
• French: fiancé (fr) m
• German: Verlobter (de) m / der Verlobte (de) m
• Hebrew: אָרוּס (he) (arús) m
• Hungarian: vőlegény (hu), (either gender) jegyes (hu)
• Indonesian: tunangan (id)
• Italian: fidanzato (it) m
• Japanese: 婚約者 (ja) (こんやくしゃ, kon'yakusha) (both fiancé and fiancée), フィアンセ (ja) (fianse)
• Jèrriais: fianchi m
• Korean: 약혼자 (ko) (yakhonja) (約婚者 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ده‌سگیران

• Ladino:

  Roman: espozado m

• Latin: sponsus, fidentiatus
• Latvian: līgavainis (lv) m
• Macedonian: свршеник (mk) (svršénik) m
• Malagasy: fofom-bady (mg)
• Malay: tunang (ms) n
• Persian: نامزد (fa) (nâmzad) (fiancé or fiancée)
• Polish: narzeczony (pl) m
• Portuguese: noivo (pt) m
• Romanian: logodnic (ro) m
• Russian: жених (ru) (ženíx) m, наречённый (ru) (narečónnyj) m
• Scottish Gaelic: suirgheach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вереник (sh) m, вјереник (sh) m, заручник (sh) m

  Roman: verenik (sh) m, vjerenik (sh) m, zaručnik (sh) m

• Sicilian: zitu m
• Slovak: snúbenec (sk) m, ženích (sk) m
• Slovene: zaročenec (sl) m
• Spanish: novio (es) m, prometido (es) m
• Thai: คู่หมั้น (th) (kôo-mân) (fiancé or fiancée)
• Turkish: nişanlı (tr)
• Ukrainian: жених (uk) (ženýx) m, наречений (uk) (naréčenyj) m
• Vietnamese: chồng chưa cưới (vi)
• Welsh: dyweddi (cy) m, darpar ŵr (cy) m
• Yiddish: חתן (yi) (khosn) m

person engaged to be married

• Finnish: kihlattu (fi)

See also

• engage
• marriage

Anagrams

• fancie

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Pronunciation

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Verb

fiancé m (feminine fiancée, masculine plural fiancés, feminine plural fiancées)

1. Past participle of fiancer

Adjective

fiancé m (feminine fiancée, masculine plural fiancés, feminine plural fiancées)

1. engaged

Noun

fiancé m (plural fiancés)

1. fiancé