English
Etymology
Calque of German Schneewittchen , meaning white as snow .
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Snow White
Walt Disney 's version of Snow White , from the 1937 Snow White film
A fairy tale , the best-known version of Schneewittchen collected by the Brothers Grimm , in which a beautiful young girl is poisoned by a jealous queen and tended by dwarfs.
The main character in that story.
A fictional character in the fairy tale Snow-White and Rose-Red , from Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot collected by the Brothers Grimm .
Translations
character from Snow White (Schneewittchen)
Afrikaans: Sneeuwwitjie
Albanian: Borëbardha
Arabic: بَيْضَاء الثَّلْج f ( bayḍāʔ aṯ-ṯalj ) , بَيَاضُ الثَّلْج f ( bayāḍu ṯ-ṯalj )
Armenian: Սպիտակաձյունիկ ( Spitakajyunik )
Basque: Edurnezuri
Belarusian: Беласне́жка f ( Bjelasnjéžka )
Breton: Gwennerc'h
Bulgarian: Снежанка f ( Snežanka )
Catalan: Blancaneus f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 白雪公主 ( baak6 syut3 gung1 zyu2 ) , 雪姑 ( syut3 gu1 ) ( dated )
Mandarin: 白雪 (zh) ( Báixuě ) , 白雪公主 (zh) ( Báixuě Gōngzhǔ )
Czech: Sněhurka (cs) f
Danish: Snehvide
Dutch: Sneeuwwitje (nl) n
Esperanto: Neĝulino
Estonian: Lumivalgeke
Finnish: Lumikki
French: Blanche-Neige (fr) f
Galician: Brancaneves
Georgian: ფიფქია ( pipkia )
German: Schneewittchen (de) n
Greek: Χιονάτη (el) f ( Chionáti )
Hebrew: שלגייה f ( shilgiyá ) , שִׁלְגִּיָּה f ( shilgiyá )
Hungarian: Hófehérke (hu)
Icelandic: Mjallhvít (is) f
Indonesian: Salju (id)
Italian: Biancaneve f
Japanese: 白雪姫 ( しらゆきひめ, Shirayukihime )
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Kapampangan: Maputing Niebi
Korean: 백설 ( Baekseol ) , 백설 공주 ( Baekseol gongju )
Latin: Albanix
Macedonian: Снежана f ( Snežana )
Maltese: Bajda Silġ f
Mongolian: Цасан цагаан ( Casan cagaan )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Snøhvit
Nynorsk: Snøkvit
Persian: سفیدبرفی
Polish: Śnieżka (pl) f
Portuguese: Branca de Neve (pt) f
Romanian: Albă ca Zăpada (ro) f
Russian: Белосне́жка (ru) f ( Belosnéžka )
Scots: Snaw White
Scottish Gaelic: Ròs Bhàn f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Сњегуљица f , Снежана f , Сњежана f
Roman: Snjeguljica f , Snježana f
Slovak: Snehulienka
Slovene: Sneguljčica (sl) f
Spanish: Blancanieves
Swedish: Snövit (sv)
Thai: สโนว์ไวต์ ( sà-noo-wái )
Turkish: Pamuk Prenses
Ukrainian: Білосні́жка f ( Bilosnížka )
Uyghur: قار مەلىكە ( qar melike )
Vietnamese: Bạch Tuyết
Volapük: Nifavietil
Welsh: Eira Wen f , Gweneira f
character from Snow-White and Rose-Red (Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot)
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