fiancée

fiancée

See also: fiancee and fianceé

English

Alternative forms

• fiancee

Etymology

Borrowed from French fiancée.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

• Homophone: fiancé

Noun

fiancée (plural fiancées, masculine fiancé)

1. A woman who is engaged to be married; the woman to whom one is engaged.

Usage notes

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

Related terms

• fiancé

Translations

woman who is engaged to be married

Albanian: nuse (sq) f Arabic: خَطِيبَة‎ f (ḵaṭība) Armenian: հարս (hy) (hars), հարսնացու (hy) (harsnacʿu) Azerbaijani: adaxlı, nişanlı Basque: emaztegai (eu), andregai (eu) Belarusian: няве́ста f (njavjésta) Bengali: বাগ্দত্তা (bn) (bagdôtta) Bulgarian: годени́ца (bg) f (godeníca) Burmese: သတို့သမီး (my) (sa.tui.sa.mi:) (bride) Chinese: Mandarin: 未婚妻 (zh) (wèihūnqī) Chukchi: ӈэвъэнлыӄыл (ṇėvʺėnlyqyl) Czech: snoubenka (cs) f Dalmatian: ninapta f Danish: forlovet, kæreste (da) c Dutch: verloofde (nl) f Esperanto: fianĉino (eo) Estonian: mõrsja Finnish: morsian (fi) French: fiancée (fr) f Georgian: საცოლე (sacole) German: Verlobte (de) f; Braut (de) f Greek: αρραβωνιαστικιά (el) f (arravoniastikiá) Hebrew: אֲרוּסָה‎ f (arusa) Hindi: मँगेतर (hi) f (maṅgetar), मंगेतर f (maṅgetar), वाग्दत्ता (hi) f (vāgdattā), दुलहिन (hi) f (dulhin) Hungarian: menyasszony (hu), ara (hu), mátka Icelandic: unnusta (is) f Ido: fiancitino (io) Italian: fidanzata (it) f 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: қалыңдық (kk) (qalyñdyq) Khmer: គូកំណាន់ (kuu kɑmnan) Korean: 약혼녀(約婚女) (ko) (yakhonnyeo) Kyrgyz: колукту (koluktu) Ladino: espozada f Latin: sponsa f Latvian: līgava f Lithuanian: sužadėtinė f Macedonian: сврше́ница f (svršénica) Malagasy: fofom-bady Malay: tunang n Maori: whaiāipo Norman: fianchie f Norwegian: Bokmål: forlovede m Oromo: kaadhimaa Pashto: چنغاله‎ f (čenǧãla), چنغله‎ (ps) f (čenǧalá), کوژدن‎ f (koẑdǝn), کوېژده‎ f (kweždá), کوزده‎ f (kozdá) Persian: نامزد‎ (fa) (nâmzad) (fiancé or fiancée) Polish: narzeczona (pl) f Portuguese: noiva (pt) f Romani: piramnyi f Romanian: logodnică (ro) f Russian: неве́ста (ru) f (nevésta) Serbo-Croatian: zaručnica (sh) f Cyrillic: вереница f, вјереница f Roman: verenica (sh) f, vjerenica (sh) f Slovak: snúbenica f Slovene: zaročenka f Spanish: novia (es) f, prometida (es) f Swahili: mchumba (sw) Swedish: fästmö (sv) c Tagalog: babaeng katikya, babaeng katipan Tajik: номзад (nomzad) (fiancé or fiancée), арӯс (arüs), арус (tg) (arus) Thai: คู่หมั้น (th) (kûu-mân) (fiancé or fiancée) Turkish: nişanlı (tr) Ukrainian: наре́чена f (naréčena) Uyghur: بولغۇسى كېلىن‎ (bolghusi këlin), سۆيگەن قىزى‎ (söygen qizi), كېلىن‎ (këlin) Uzbek: kelin (uz) Vietnamese: vợ chưa cưới, vị hôn thê Walloon: mayon (wa) f, comere (wa) f Welsh: dyweddi f, darpar wraig f Westrobothnian: fässmejj f, fässmöy f, smala f Zazaki: vaşti, nışanın

See also

• engage
• marriage

Anagrams

• faience

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French

Etymology

fiancé +‎ -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjɑ̃.se/, /fi.jɑ̃.se/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophone: fiancé

Participle

fiancée f sg

1. feminine singular of the past participle of fiancer

Noun

fiancée f (plural fiancées)

1. female equivalent of fiancé (“fiancé”); a fiancée
2. a large yellow underwing

Descendants

• → English: fiancée
• → Japanese: フィアンセ (fianse)

Anagrams

• caféine, faïence