Snow White

See also: snow-white

English

Etymology

Calque of German Schneewittchen, meaning white as snow.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /snəʊ waɪt/
(US) IPA^(key): /snoʊ hwaɪt/

Proper noun

A fairy tale, the best-known version of Schneewittchen collected by the Brothers Grimm, in which a beautiful young girl is poisoned by a jealous queen and tended by dwarfs.
The main character in that story.
A fictional character in the fairy tale Snow-White and Rose-Red, from Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot collected by the Brothers Grimm.

Translations

character from Snow White (Schneewittchen)

Albanian: Borëbardha
Arabic: بَيْضَاء الثَّلْج‎ f (bayḍāʾ aṯ-ṯalj)
Armenian: Սպիտակաձյունիկ (Spitakajyunik)
Basque: Edurnezuri
Breton: Gwennerc'h
Bulgarian: Снежанка f (Snežanka)
Catalan: Blancaneus f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 白雪 (zh) (Báixuě)
Czech: Sněhurka (cs) f
Danish: Snehvide
Dutch: Sneeuwwitje (nl) n
Esperanto: Neĝulino
Estonian: Lumivalgeke
Finnish: Lumikki
French: Blanche-Neige (fr) f
Galician: Brancaneves
Georgian: ფიფქია (pipkia)
German: Schneewittchen (de) n
Greek: Χιονάτη (el) f (Chionáti)
Ancient: Χιονέα f (Khionéa)
Hebrew: שלגייה‎ f (Shilgiyá), שִׁלְגִּיָּה‎ f (Shilgiyá)
Hungarian: Hófehérke (hu)
Icelandic: Mjallhvít (is) f
Indonesian: Salju (id)
Italian: Biancaneve f
Japanese: 白雪姫 (しらゆきひめ, Shirayukihime)

Korean: 백설 (Baegseol)
Latin: Albanix
Macedonian: Снежана f (Snéžana)
Maltese: Bajda Silġ f
Mongolian: Цасан цагаан (Tsasan tsagaan)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Snøhvit

Nynorsk: Snøkvit
Old Norse: Snærhvítr f
Persian: سفیدبرفی‎
Polish: Śnieżka (pl) f
Portuguese: Branca de Neve (pt) f
Romanian: Albă ca Zăpada (ro) f
Russian: Белосне́жка (ru) f (Belosnéžka)
Scots: Snaw White
Scottish Gaelic: Ròs Bhàn f
Serbo-Croatian: Сњегуљица f (Snjeguljica)
Slovak: Snehulienka
Slovene: Sneguljčica (sl) f
Spanish: Blancanieves
Swedish: Snövit (sv)
Turkish: Pamuk Prenses
Ukrainian: Білосніжка f (Bilosnižka)
Uyghur: قار مەلىكە‎ (qar melike)
Vietnamese: Bạch Tuyết
Volapük: Nifavietil
Welsh: Eirâ Gwyn

character from Snow-White and Rose-Red (Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot)

Arabic: سنو وايت‎
Belarusian: Беласнежка (Bielasniežka)
Bengali: তুষারধবল (Tuṣāradhabala)
Catalan: Blancaneus
Chinese:
Mandarin: 白雪公主 (zh) (Báixuě gōngzhǔ)
Czech: Sněhurka (cs)
Dutch: Sneeuwwitje (nl) n
Esperanto: Neĝulino
Estonian: Lumivalgeke
Finnish: Lumikki, Lumivalko

French: Blanche-Neige (fr) f
German: Schneeweißchen n
Greek: Χιονούλα f (Chionoúla)
Macedonian: Снежана f (Snéžana)
Portuguese: Branca de Neve (pt) f
Russian: Беляно́чка f (Beljanóčka)
Serbo-Croatian: Snjeguljica f
Spanish: Blancanieves
Swedish: Snövit (sv)
Volapük: Jinifavietanil

Further reading

Snow White on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Snow-White and Rose-Red on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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