fortune-telling

fortune-telling

See also: fortunetelling and fortune telling

English

Alternative forms

• fortunetelling
• fortune telling

Noun

fortune-telling (uncountable)

1. The act or practise of predicting the future (especially for money), as by using a crystal ball, reading palms, reading tea leaves in a cup, etc.; prediction of future events, especially those of a personal nature.

Translations

fortunetelling, predicting one's future

Arabic: عَرَافَة‎ f (ʿarāfa) Azerbaijani: fal (az) Burmese: ဗေဒင် (my) (bedang) Chinese: Mandarin: 占卜 (zh) (zhānbǔ) Esperanto: aŭgurado Estonian: ennustamine Finnish: ennustaminen (fi) French: bonne aventure (fr) f Georgian: მკითხაობა (mḳitxaoba) German: Wahrsagen n, Wahrsagerei (de) f Hausa: haɗɗī̀ m Italian: divinazione (it) f Japanese: 占い (ja) (うらない, uranai) Latin: hariolatio f Portuguese: adivinhação (pt) f Romanian: prezicere (ro) Russian: гада́ние (ru) n (gadánije), ворожба́ (ru) f (vorožbá) Swedish: spådom (sv) Telugu: సోదె (te) (sōde) Turkish: fal (tr) Vietnamese: bói (vi), bói toán (vi) Volapük: büosag (vo), büosagam Welsh: darogan (cy)

See also

connected with fortunetelling

• alectromancy
• astrology
• astromancy
• augury
• bibliomancy
• cartomancy
• ceromancy
• cheiromancy
• chronomancy
• clairvoyance
• cold reading
• crystallomancy
• extispicy
• face reading
• feng shui
• gastromancy
• geomancy
• haruspicy
• horary astrology
• hydromancy
• I Ching divination
• kau cim sticks
• lithomancy
• necromancy
• numerology
• oneiromancy
• onomancy
• palmistry
• paper fortune teller
• pendulum reading
• pyromancy
• rhabdomancy
• runecasting
• runic divination
• scrying
• ouija board
• planchette
• taromancy
• tasseography
• tasseomancy
• ventriloquism