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 (h)waɪt/

Proper noun

Snow White

Walt Disney's version of Snow White, from the 1937 Snow White film

A fairy tale, the best-known version of Schneewittchen collected by the Brothers Grimm, in which a beautiful young girl is targeted 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)

Afrikaans: Sneeuwwitjie
Albanian: Borëbardha
Arabic: بَيْضَاء الثَّلْج‎ f (bayḍāʾ aṯ-ṯalj), بَيَاضُ الثَّلْج‎ f (bayāḍu ṯ-ṯalj)
Armenian: Սպիտակաձյունիկ (Spitakajyunik)
Basque: Edurnezuri
Belarusian: Беласне́жка f (Bjelasnjéžka)
Breton: Gwennerc'h
Bulgarian: Снежанка f (Snežanka)
Catalan: Blancaneus f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 白雪公主 (baak⁶ syut³ gung¹ zyu²), 雪姑 (syut³ gu¹) (dated)
Mandarin: 白雪 (zh) (Báixuě), 白雪公主 (zh) (Báixuě Gōngzhǔ)
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)
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)
Kapampangan: Maputing Niebi
Korean: 백설 (Baekseol), 백설 공주 (Baekseol gongju)
Latin: Albanix
Macedonian: Снежана f (Snežana)
Maltese: Bajda Silġ f
Mongolian: Цасан цагаан (Casan cagaan)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Snøhvit
Nynorsk: Snøkvit
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:
Cyrillic: Сњегуљица f, Снежана f, Сњежана f
Roman: Snjeguljica f, Snježana f
Slovak: Snehulienka
Slovene: Sneguljčica (sl) f
Spanish: Blancanieves
Swedish: Snövit (sv)
Thai: สโนว์ไวต์ (sà-noo-wái)
Turkish: Pamuk Prenses
Ukrainian: Білосні́жка f (Bilosnížka)
Uyghur: قار مەلىكە‎ (qar melike)
Vietnamese: Bạch Tuyết
Volapük: Nifavietil
Welsh: Eira Wen f, Gweneira f

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

Arabic: سْنُو وَايْت‎ f (snū wāyt)
Bengali: তুষারধবল (tuṣarôdhbôl)
Catalan: Blancaneus
Chinese:
Mandarin: 白雪 (zh) (Báixuě)
Czech: Sněhurka (cs)
Dutch: Sneeuwwitje (nl) n
Esperanto: Neĝulino
Estonian: Lumivalgeke
Finnish: Lumikki, Lumivalko
French: Blanche-Neige (fr) f
Galician: Brancaneves
German: Schneeweißchen n
Greek: Χιονούλα (el) f (Chionoúla)
Japanese: 白雪 (ja) (しらゆき, Shirayuki)
Kapampangan: Maputing Niebi
Korean: 백설 (Baekseol)
Macedonian: Снежана f (Snežana)
Polish: Białośnieżka f
Portuguese: Branca de Neve (pt) f
Russian: Беляно́чка f (Beljanóčka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Сњегуљица f
Roman: Snjeguljica f
Spanish: Blancanieves
Swedish: Snövit (sv)
Volapük: Jinifavietanil
Welsh: Eira Wen f, Gweneira f

Anagrams

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