folklore

See also: Folklore and folk-lore

English

Etymology

From folk +‎ lore, coined by British writer William Thoms in 1846 to replace terms such as "popular antiquities". Thoms imitated German terms such as Volklehre (“people's customs”) and Volksüberlieferung ("popular tradition"). Compare also Old English folclar ("popular instruction; homily") and West Frisian folkloare (“folklore”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊk.lɔː/

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Noun

folklore (countable and uncountable, plural folklores)

1. The tales, legends and superstitions of a particular ethnic population.
   • 2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Foxes boss Rodgers had a smile that illuminated Wembley as he joined Leicester's players in joyous scenes of celebration after the manager and his players had written their name into the club's folklore.

Derived terms

• folkloric
• folklorish
• folklorism
• folklorist

Related terms

• folkloristics

Descendants

• → Catalan: folklore
• → Danish: folklore
• → Esperanto: folkloro
• → French: folklore
• → Galician: folclore
• → German: Folklore
• → Hungarian: folklór
• → Italian: folclore
• → Polish: folklor
• → Portuguese: folclore
• → Russian: фолькло́р (folʹklór)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фо̀лкло̄р

  Latin: fòlklōr

• → Spanish: folclore, folclor, folklore, folklor
• → Swedish: folklore
• → Turkish: folklor
• → Yiddish: פֿאָלקלאָר‎ (folklor)

Translations

tales, legends and superstitions of a particular ethnic population

• Albanian: folklor (sq) m
• Arabic: فُولْكْلُور‎ m (folklōr), فُولْكُلُور‎ m (folkolōr), فُلْكْلُور‎ m (folklōr), فُلْكُلُور‎ m (folkolōr)
• Armenian: ֆոլկլոր (hy) (folklor)
• Azerbaijani: folklor
• Belarusian: фалькло́р m (falʹklór), фальклёр m (falʹkljór)
• Bengali: উপকথা (bn) (upôktha), লোকাচারবিদ্যা (lokacarôbidja)
• Bulgarian: фолкло́р (bg) m (folklór)
• Burmese: ^{(please verify)} လူထုပုံပြင်များ (luhtu.pumprangmya:)
• Catalan: folklore (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 民俗 (zh) (mínsú)

• Czech: folklór (cs) m
• Danish: folklore c
• Dutch: folklore (nl) f
• Esperanto: folkloro
• Estonian: rahvaluule, folkloor
• Finnish: kansanperinne (fi)
• French: folklore (fr) m
• Galician: folclore (gl) m
• Georgian: ფოლკლორი (ka) (polḳlori)
• German: Volkstradition, Volksüberlieferung; (the borrowing Folklore (de) f is somewhat different), Volkskunde (de) f
• Greek: λαογραφία (el) f (laografía), λαϊκή παράδοση f (laïkí parádosi)
• Guaraní: tavarandu
• Hebrew: פוֹלְקְלוֹר‎ (he) m (folklór)
• Hindi: लोकसाहित्य m (loksāhitya) (folk literature)
• Hungarian: néphagyomány, folklór (hu)
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: folklor (id)
• Italian: folclore (it) m
• Japanese: 民俗 (みんぞく, minzoku), 伝承 (ja) (でんしょう, denshō), 民話 (みんわ, minwa)
• Kazakh: фольклор (folʹklor)
• Khmer: រឿងព្រេង (rɨəng preing)
• Korean: 민속(民俗) (ko) (minsok)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: folklor (ku)

• Kyrgyz: фольклор (ky) (folʹklor)

• Lao: ນິຍາຽ (ni nyāi)
• Latvian: folklora f, garamantas f pl
• Limburgish: vólksleirn
• Lithuanian: folkloras m
• Macedonian: фолклор m (folklor)
• Malagasy: angano (mg), arira (mg)
• Malay: budaya rakyat, cerita rakyat
• Mizo: thurochun
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: ардын аман зохиол (ardyn aman zokhiol), аман зохиол (aman zokhiol)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: folklore m

• Pashto: فولکلور‎ (ps) m (folklōr)
• Persian: فولکلور‎ (fa) (folkolôr)
• Polish: folklor (pl) m, tradycja ludowa f
• Portuguese: folclore (pt) m
• Romanian: folclor (ro) n
• Russian: фолькло́р (ru) m (folʹklór)
• Scottish Gaelic: beul-aithris f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фо̀лкло̄р m

  Roman: fòlklōr (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ජනප්‍රවාද‌ (janaprawāda‌)
• Slovak: folklór m
• Slovene: folklor m
• Spanish: folclore (es) m, folclor (es) m, demosofía f
• Swahili: hadithi za kale
• Swedish: folklore (sv) c
• Tagalog: kuwentong bayan
• Tajik: фолклор (folklor)
• Tatar: фольклор (tt) (fol’klor)
• Thai: นิทาน (th) (ní-taan), คติชน (ká-dtì-chon), คติชาวบ้าน (th) (ká-dtì-chaao-bâan)
• Turkish: folklor (tr)
• Turkmen: folklor
• Ukrainian: фолькло́р (uk) m (folʹklór)
• Urdu: لوک کَہانی‎ f (lok kahānī) (folk literature)
• Uyghur: فولكلور‎ (folklor)
• Uzbek: folklor (uz)
• Vietnamese: văn học dân gian
• Yiddish: פֿאָלקלאָר‎ m (folklor)

See also

• folk
• lore
• myth
• oral tradition
• intangible cultural heritage

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Catalan

Etymology

From English folklore.

Noun

folklore m (uncountable)

1. folklore

Derived terms

• folklòric

Further reading

• “folklore” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “folklore”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
• “folklore” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “folklore” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Danish

Etymology

From English folklore, from folk + lore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔlkloːrə/, [fʌlɡ̊ˈloːɐ], [fʌlˈkʰloːɐ]

Noun

folklore c (singular definite folkloren, not used in plural form)

1. folklore

Further reading

• “folklore” in Den Danske Ordbog
• folklore on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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French

Etymology

From English folklore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔl.klɔʁ/

Noun

folklore m (plural folklores)

1. folklore

Further reading

• “folklore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English folklore.

Noun

folklore m (definite singular folkloren, indefinite plural folklorer, definite plural folklorene)

1. folklore

References

• “folklore” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English folklore.

Noun

folklore m (definite singular folkloren, indefinite plural folklorar, definite plural folklorane)

1. folklore

References

• “folklore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Spanish

Noun

folklore m (plural folklores)

1. Alternative spelling of folclore