fábula

See also: fabula, fabuła, fabulă, fabulá, fabúla, and fabułą

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fābula. Doublet of the inherited fala.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.bu.lɐ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.bu.lɐ/ [ˈfa.βu.lɐ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.bu.lɐ/ [ˈfa.βu.lɐ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.bu.lɐ/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Rhymes: -abulɐ
• Hyphenation: fá‧bu‧la

Noun

fábula f (plural fábulas)

1. fable, myth

   Synonym: mito

Related terms

• confabular
• fabulador
• fabular
• fabulário
• fabulista
• fabulizar
• fabuloso

Further reading

• “fábula”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “fábula”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fābula. Doublet of the inherited habla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfabula/ [ˈfa.β̞u.la]

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -abula
• Syllabification: fá‧bu‧la

Noun

fábula f (plural fábulas)

1. fable, myth, tale

   Synonyms: mito, cuento

2. rumor

   Synonym: rumor

3. (Costa Rica) animated cartoon

   Synonyms: dibujo animado, (Venezuela) comiquita

Derived terms

• de fábula
• fábula milesia
• fabulista

Related terms

• fabular
• fabuloso

Further reading

• “fábula”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “fábula”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010