folklore

See also: Folklore and folk-lore

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊk.lɔː/

Noun

folklore (countable and uncountable, plural folklores)

1. The tales, legends and superstitions of a particular ethnic population.

Translations

tales, legends and superstitions of a particular ethnic population

• Albanian: folklor (sq) m
• Arabic: فُلْكْلُور‏‎ m (fulklūr)
• Armenian: ֆոլկլոր (hy) (folklor)
• Azeri: folklor
• Belarusian: фалькло́р m (falʹklór), фальклёр m (falʹkljór)
• Bengali: উপকথা (upôktha), লোকাচারবিদ্যা (lokacarôbidja)
• Bulgarian: фолкло́р (bg) m (folklór)
• Burmese: 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
• French: folklore (fr)
• Georgian: ფოლკლორი (ka) (polḳlori)
• German: Volkstradition (de), Volksüberlieferung (de); (the borrowing Folklore (de) f is somewhat different)
• Greek: λαογραφία (el) f (laografía), λαϊκή παράδοση f (laïkí parádosi)
• Guaraní: tavarandu
• Hebrew: פוֹלְקְלוֹר‏‎ (he) m (folklór)
• Hindi: लोकसाहित्य m (loksāhitya)
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: folclore (it) m
• Japanese: 民俗 (みんぞく, minzoku), 伝承 (でんしょう, denshō), 民話 (みんわ, minwa)
• Kazakh: фольклор (folʹklor)
• Khmer: រឿងព្រេង (rɨəŋ preeŋ)
• Korean: 민속 (ko) (minsok) (民俗 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: фольклор (ky) (folʹklor)

• Lao: ນິຍາຽ (ni nyāi)
• Latvian: folklora f, garamantas f pl
• Limburgish: vólksleirn (li)
• Lithuanian: folkloras m
• Macedonian: фо́лклор m (fólklor)
• Mizo: thurochun
• Mongolian: ардын аман зохиол (ardyn aman zohiol)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: folklore

• Persian: فولکلور‏‎ (fa) (folklor)
• Polish: folklor (pl) m
• Portuguese: folclore (pt) m
• Russian: фолькло́р (ru) m (folʹklór)
• Scottish Gaelic: beul-aithris f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фолклор m

  Roman: folklor (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ජනප්‍රවාද‌ (janap‍ravāda‌)
• Slovak: folklór m
• Slovene: folklor m
• Spanish: folclore (es) m, folclor (es) m, demosofía f
• Swahili: hadithi za kale
• Swedish: folklore (sv)
• Tajik: фолклор (folklor)
• 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)
• Uzbek: folklor (uz)
• Vietnamese: văn học dân gian
• Yiddish: פֿאָלקלאָר‏‎ m (folklor)

Related terms

• folkloric
• folklorist
• folkloristics

See also

• folk
• lore
• myth
• oral tradition

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Catalan

Noun

folklore m (uncountable)

1. folklore

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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

See also

• folklore on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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French

Etymology

From English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔl.klɔʁ/

Noun

folklore m (plural folklores)

1. folklore

Further reading

• “folklore” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• folclor

Noun

folklore m (plural folklores)

1. folklore