Snow White

See also: snow-white

English

Etymology

Calque of German Schneewittchen, meaning white as snow.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Snow White

Walt Disney's version of Snow White, from the 1937 Snow White film

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 (bayḍāʔ aṯ-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)

  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 (Baekseol), 백설 공주 (Baekseol gongju)
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• Latin: Albanix
• Macedonian: Снежана f (Snežana)
• Maltese: Bajda Silġ f
• Mongolian: Цасан цагаан (Casan cagaan)
• 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:

  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: Eirâ Gwyn

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

• Arabic: سْنُو وَايْت f (snū wāyt)
• Bengali: তুষারধবল (tuśardhobol)
• Catalan: Blancaneus
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白雪 (zh) (Báixuě)

• Czech: Sněhurka (cs)
• Dutch: Sneeuwwitje (nl) n
• Esperanto: Neĝulino
• Estonian: Lumivalgeke
• Finnish: Lumikki, Lumivalko
• French: Blanche-Neige (fr) f
• Galician: Brancaneves
• German: Schneeweißchen n
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• Greek: Χιονούλα (el) f (Chionoúla)
• Japanese: 白雪 (ja) (しらゆき, Shirayuki)
• Korean: 백설 (Baekseol)
• Macedonian: Снежана f (Snežana)
• Portuguese: Branca de Neve (pt) f
• Russian: Беляно́чка f (Beljanóčka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сњегуљица f

  Roman: Snjeguljica f

• Spanish: Blancanieves
• Swedish: Snövit (sv)
• Volapük: Jinifavietanil

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• white snow