short story (plural short stories)
- A work of fiction that is shorter than a novella.
work of fiction
- Afrikaans: kortverhaal
- Albanian: histori e shkurtër f, tregim (sq) m
- Arabic: قِصَّة قَصِيرَة f (qiṣṣa qaṣīra), أُقْصُوصَة f (ʔuqṣūṣa)
- Armenian: պատմվածք (hy) (patmvackʻ)
- Assamese: চুটিগল্প (sutigolpo)
- Azerbaijani: novella, qısa hekayə, hekayə (az)
- Bashkir: хикәйә (xikəyə)
- Belarusian: апавяда́нне n (apavjadánnje), апавяда́ньне n (apavjadánʹnje), навэ́ла f (navéla)
- Bengali: ছোটগল্প (chōṭgolpo)
- Bikol Central: rikas-usipon
- Bulgarian: ра́зказ (bg) m (rázkaz)
- Catalan: conte (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 短篇小說/短篇小说 (dyun2 pin1 siu2 syut3) (dyun2 pin1 siu2 syut3)
- Mandarin: 短篇小說/短篇小说 (zh) (duǎnpiān xiǎoshuō)
- Czech: povídka (cs) f, novela (cs) f
- Danish: novelle (da) c
- Dutch: kort verhaal (nl) n
- Esperanto: novelo
- Estonian: novell (et)
- Finnish: novelli (fi)
- French: nouvelle (fr) f, conte (fr) m, récit court m
- Georgian: მოთხრობა (motxroba)
- German: Kurzgeschichte (de) f, Erzählung (de) f, Novelle (de) f
- Greek: διήγημα (el) n (diígima)
- Gujarati: ટૂંકી વાર્તા (ṭū̃kī vārtā)
- Hebrew: סִפּוּר קָצָר / סיפור קצר (he) m (sipúr katsár)
- Hindi: लघुकथा m (laghukthā)
- Hungarian: elbeszélés (hu), novella (hu)
- Icelandic: smásaga (is) f
- Indonesian: cerita pendek (id), cerpen (id)
- Irish: gearrscéal m
- Italian: racconto (it) m
- Japanese: 短編小説 (ja) (たんぺんしょうせつ, tanpen shōsetsu), ショートストーリー (shōto sutōrī)
- Kashubian: òpòwiôdanié n
- Kazakh: әңгіме (äñgıme)
- Khmer: រឿងខ្លី (rɨəng khləy)
- Korean: 단편 소설(短篇小說) (ko) (danpyeon soseol)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: کورتە چیرۆک (kurte çîrok)
- Northern Kurdish: kurteçîrok (ku)
- Kyrgyz: аңгеме (ky) (aŋgeme)
- Latvian: stāsts (lv) m, novele f
- Lithuanian: apsakymas m, novelė f
- Macedonian: расказ m (raskaz)
- Malay: cerpen (ms), cerita pendek
- Maori: pakipoto
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: тууж (mn) (tuuž), өгүүллэг (mn) (ögüülleg), богино өгүүллэг (bogino ögüülleg)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: novelle (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: novelle f
- Pashto: داستان (ps) m (dāstãn)
- Persian: داستان کوتاه (fa) (dâstân-e kutâh), داستان (fa) (dâstân)
- Polish: opowiadanie (pl) n, opowiadanko n, opowiastka (pl) f, powiastka (pl) f
- Portuguese: conto (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਨਿੱਕੀ ਕਹਾਣੀ f (nikkī kahāṇī)
- Romanian: povestire (ro) f, nuvelă (ro) f
- Russian: расска́з (ru) m (rasskáz), нове́лла (ru) f (novɛ́lla), по́весть (ru) f (póvestʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: при̏пове̄тка f, при̏повије̄тка f, новѐла f, кратка прича f
- Roman: prȉpovētka (sh) f, prȉpovijētka (sh) f, novèla (sh) f, kratka priča f
- Slovak: poviedka f, novela f
- Slovene: kratka zgodba f, novela f
- Spanish: cuento (es) m, relato corto m, narrativa breve f
- Swahili: hadithi fupi
- Swedish: novell (sv) c
- Tagalog: maikling kuwento
- Tajik: ҳикоя (hikoya), нақл (tg) (naql), баён (tg) (bayon), достони кӯтоҳ (tg) (doston-i kütoh), достон (tg) (doston)
- Tamil: (please verify) சிறுகதை (ta) (ciṟukatai)
- Tatar: хикәя (tt) (xikäya)
- Thai: เรื่องสั้น (rʉ̂ʉang-sân)
- Turkish: kısa öykü, kısa hikâye, hikâye (tr), öykü (tr)
- Turkmen: hekaýa
- Ukrainian: оповіда́ння n (opovidánnja), нове́ла (uk) f (novéla)
- Uyghur: ھېكايە (hëkaye)
- Uzbek: hikoya (uz)
- Vietnamese: truyện ngắn (vi), chuyện (vi)
- Welsh: stori fer (cy) f
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