English
Pronunciation
Noun
short story (plural short stories )
A work of fiction that is shorter than a novella .
Translations
work of fiction
Afrikaans: kortverhaal
Albanian: histori e shkurtër f
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 ) , навэ́ла f ( navéla )
Bengali: ছোটগল্প ( choṭgôlpô )
Bulgarian: разка́з (bg) m ( razkáz )
Catalan: conte (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 短篇小說 / 短篇小说 (zh) ( duǎnpiān xiǎoshuō ) , 短篇小说 (zh) ( duǎnpiān xiǎoshuō )
Czech: povídka (cs) f , novela (cs) f
Danish: novelle (da) c
Dutch: kort verhaal 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 f
Indonesian: cerita pendek (id) , cerpen (id)
Irish: gearrscéal m
Italian: racconto (it) m
Japanese: 短編小説 ( たんぺんしょうせつ, tanpen shōsetsu ) , ショートストーリー ( shōtosutōrī )
Kazakh: әңгіме (kk) ( äñgıme )
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Khmer: រឿងខ្លី ( roeung khley )
Korean: 단편 소설 (ko) ( danpyeon soseol )
Kurdish:
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Kyrgyz: аңгеме (ky) ( aŋgeme )
Latvian: stāsts (lv) m , novele f
Lithuanian: apsakymas m , novelė f
Macedonian: расказ m ( raskaz )
Malay: cerpen (ms) , cerita pendek
Norwegian:
Bokmål: novelle (no) m or f
Nynorsk: novelle f
Persian: داستان کوتاه (fa) ( dâstân-e kutâh )
Polish: opowiadanie (pl) n , nowela f
Portuguese: conto (pt) m
Romanian: povestire (ro) f , nuvelă (ro) f
Russian: расска́з (ru) m ( rasskáz ) , нове́лла (ru) f ( novɛ́lla ) , по́весть (ru) f ( póvestʹ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: приповетка f , приповијетка f , новела f
Roman: pripovetka (sh) f , pripovijetka (sh) f , novela (sh) f
Slovak: poviedka f , novela f
Slovene: kratka zgodba f , novela f
Spanish: cuento (es) m , relato corto m , narrativa breve f
Swedish: novell (sv) c
Tagalog: maikling kuwento
Tajik: ҳикоя ( hikoya ) , нақл (tg) ( naql ) , баён (tg) ( bayon )
Tamil: (please verify ) சிறுகதை (ta) ( ciṟukatai )
Thai: เรื่องสั้น ( rʉ̂ʉang-sân )
Turkish: kısa öykü , kısa hikâye
Ukrainian: оповіда́ння n ( opovidánnja ) , нове́ла (uk) f ( novéla )
Uzbek: hikoya (uz)
Vietnamese: truyện ngắn (vi)
Welsh: stori fer (cy) f