Snow White

See also: snow-white

English

Etymology

Calque of German Schneewittchen, meaning white as snow.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /snəʊ waɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /snoʊ hwaɪt/

Proper noun

Snow White

1. 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.
2. The main character in that story.
3. 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)

• Albanian: Borëbardha
• Arabic: بَيْضَاء الثَّلْج‎ f (bayḍāʾ aṯ-ṯalj)
• Armenian: Սպիտակաձյունիկ (Spitakajyunik)
• Basque: Edurnezuri
• Breton: Gwennerc'h
• Bulgarian: Снежанка f (Snežanka)
• Catalan: Blancaneus f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白雪 (zh) (Báixuě)

• 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)

  Ancient: Χιονέα f (Khionéa)

• 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)

• Korean: 백설 (Baegseol)
• Latin: Albanix
• Macedonian: Снежана f (Snéžana)
• Maltese: Bajda Silġ f
• Mongolian: Цасан цагаан (Tsasan tsagaan)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Snøhvit

  Nynorsk: Snøkvit

• Old Norse: Snærhvítr f
• 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: Сњегуљица f (Snjeguljica)
• Slovak: Snehulienka
• Slovene: Sneguljčica (sl) f
• Spanish: Blancanieves
• Swedish: Snövit
• Turkish: Pamuk Prenses
• Ukrainian: Білосніжка f (Bilosnižka)
• Uyghur: قار مەلىكە‎ (qar melike)
• Vietnamese: Bạch Tuyết
• Volapük: Nifavietil
• Welsh: Eirâ Gwyn

character from Snow-White and Rose-Red (Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot)

• Arabic: سنو وايت‎
• Belarusian: Беласнежка (Bielasniežka)
• Bengali: তুষারধবল (Tuṣāradhabala)
• Catalan: Blancaneus
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白雪公主 (zh) (Báixuě gōngzhǔ)

• Czech: Sněhurka (cs)
• Dutch: Sneeuwwitje (nl) n
• Esperanto: Neĝulino
• Estonian: Lumivalgeke
• Finnish: Lumikki, Lumivalko

• French: Blanche-Neige (fr) f
• German: Schneeweißchen n
• Greek: Χιονούλα f (Chionoúla)
• Macedonian: Снежана f (Snéžana)
• Portuguese: Branca de Neve (pt) f
• Russian: Беляно́чка f (Beljanóčka)
• Serbo-Croatian: Snjeguljica f
• Spanish: Blancanieves
• Swedish: Snövit
• Volapük: Jinifavietanil

Further reading

• Snow White on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Snow-White and Rose-Red on Wikipedia.Wikipedia