short story

English

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Noun

short story (plural short stories)

1. A work of fiction that is shorter than a novella.

Related terms

• short short story

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:

  Sorani:

• 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