fiancé

fiancé

See also: fiance and fiancée

English

Alternative forms

• fiance

Etymology

Borrowed from French fiancé.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fiˈɑnseɪ/, /ˌfiɑnˈseɪ/, /fiɑnˈseɪ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fiˈɒ̃seɪ/, /fiˈɒnseɪ/, /fiˈɑːnseɪ/

• Audio (UK)

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• Homophone: fiancée

Noun

fiancé (plural fiancés, feminine fiancée)

1. A man who is engaged to be married; the man to whom one is engaged.
2. A person engaged to be married.
   • 2009, B. R. Laine, Tales from Suffolk County, page 107:

     West said that she was proud of their relationship and is looking forward to meeting his fiancé.

   • 2018, Christina J. Easley -, Disaster Free Survivor Strikes Back: Storms of Love & Loss, →ISBN, page 163:

     He could not bear to think about the idea that his fiancé could die in their dream home where they had shared so many unforgettable moments together.

   • 2018, T. K. Kohl, Quest of the Staff and the Sword, →ISBN, page 153:

     Matt called his fiancé and told her to come to the office.

Usage notes

• Traditionally, the spelling fiancé is used for a man who is engaged, with fiancée being the female counterpart (this is a reflection of the corresponding distinction in French). However, this distinction is not reliably followed today.

Translations

man who is engaged to be married

Afrikaans: verloofde Albanian: dhëndër (sq) m Arabic: خَطِيب‎ m (ḵaṭīb) Armenian: փեսա (hy) (pʿesa), փեսացու (hy) (pʿesacʿu) Azerbaijani: adaxlı Basque: senargai (eu), gizongai (eu) Belarusian: жані́х m (žaníx) Bengali: বাগ্দত্ত (bagdôttô) Bulgarian: годени́к (bg) m (godeník), жени́х (bg) m (ženíh) Burmese: သတို့သား (my) (sa.tui.sa:) (bridegroom) Chinese: Mandarin: 未婚夫 (zh) (wèihūnfū) Czech: snoubenec (cs) m, zasnoubený m Dalmatian: ninapto m Danish: forlovet, forlovede Dutch: verloofde (nl) m Esperanto: fianĉo (eo) Estonian: peigmees Finnish: sulhanen (fi) French: fiancé (fr) m Georgian: საქმრო (sakmro), ნეფე (nepe) German: Verlobter (de) m, der Verlobte (de) m Greek: αρραβωνιαστικός (el) m (arravoniastikós) Hebrew: אָרוּס‎ (he) m (arús) Hindi: दुलहा (hi) m (dulhā), मँगेतर (hi) m (maṅgetar), मंगेतर m (maṅgetar), वर (hi) m (var), वाग्दत्त (hi) m (vāgdatt) Hungarian: vőlegény (hu), (either gender) jegyes (hu) Icelandic: unnusti (is) m Ido: fiancitulo (io) Indonesian: tunangan (id) Italian: fidanzato (it) m Japanese: 婚約者 (ja) (こんやくしゃ, kon'yakusha) (both fiancé and fiancée), フィアンセ (ja) (fianse) Kazakh: күйеу (küieu) Khmer: បុរសសងសា (bo’rɑh sɑɑŋ saa), គូកំណាន់ (kuu kɑmnan) Korean: 약혼자(約婚者) (ko) (yakhonja) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: دەسگیران‎ (ku) (desgîran) Kyrgyz: куйоо (kuyoo), күйөөлөгүч (küyöölögüç) Ladino: Roman: espozado m, aprometido m, despozado m Lao: ເຈົ້າບ່າວ (chao bāo) Latin: sponsus m, fidentiatus Latvian: līgavainis m Lithuanian: sužadėtinis m Macedonian: сврше́ник m (svršénik) Malagasy: fofom-bady Malay: tunang n Malayalam: പ്രതിശ്രുത വരൻ (pratiśruta varaṉ) Maori: whaiāipo Mongolian: сүйт залуу (süjt zaluu) Norman: fianchi m Norwegian: Bokmål: forlovede m Pashto: وديزڼ‎ m (wǝdǝzãṇ), ودګڼی‎ m (wǝdgaṇay), چنغول‎ m (čanǧól), نامزاد‎ m (nāmzãd), زڼى‎ m (zᶕṇay), ژڼى‎ m (žǝ́ṇay) Persian: نامزد‎ (fa) (nâmzad) (fiancé or fiancée) Polish: narzeczony (pl) m Portuguese: noivo (pt) m Romanian: logodnic (ro) m Russian: жени́х (ru) m (ženíx), наречённый (ru) m (narečónnyj) Scottish Gaelic: suirgheach m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: вереник m, вјереник m, заручник m Roman: verenik (sh) m, vjerenik (sh) m, zaručnik (sh) m Sicilian: zitu (scn) m Slovak: snúbenec m, ženích m Slovene: zaročenec m Spanish: novio (es) m, prometido (es) m Swahili: mchumba (sw) Swedish: fästman (sv) c Tagalog: lalaking katikya, lalaking katipan Tajik: домод (tg) (domod) Thai: คู่หมั้น (th) (kûu-mân) (fiancé or fiancée) Turkish: nişanlı (tr) Turkmen: adagly (tk) Ukrainian: жени́х m (ženýx), наре́чений m (naréčenyj) Urdu: منگیتر‎ m (mangetar) Uyghur: يىگىت‎ (yigit), يۈرگىنى‎ (yürgini) Uzbek: qalliq (uz) Vietnamese: chồng chưa cưới, vị hôn phu Welsh: dyweddi m, darpar ŵr m Yiddish: חתן‎ m (khosn)

person engaged to be married

Dutch: verloofde (nl) Esperanto: gefianĉo Finnish: kihlattu (fi) Ido: fiancito (io) Latin: sponsus m, sponsa f Norwegian: Bokmål: forlovede m Swahili: mchumba (sw) Tagalog: katikya

See also

• engage
• marriage

Anagrams

• fancie

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French

Etymology

From fiancer (“to get engaged”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjɑ̃.se/, /fi.jɑ̃.se/

• audio

  (file)

Adjective

fiancé (feminine fiancée, masculine plural fiancés, feminine plural fiancées)

1. engaged

Noun

fiancé m (plural fiancés, feminine fiancée)

1. fiancé

Participle

fiancé (feminine fiancée, masculine plural fiancés, feminine plural fiancées)

1. past participle of fiancer

Further reading

• “fiancé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.