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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French fiancée.
Pronunciation
Noun
fiancée (plural fiancées, masculine fiancé)
- 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.
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Translations
woman who is engaged to be married
- Albanian: nuse (sq) f
- Arabic: خَطِيبَة f (ḵaṭība)
- Armenian: հարս (hy) (hars), հարսնացու (hy) (harsnacʻu)
- Azerbaijani: adaxlı, nişanlı
- Basque: emaztegai (eu), andregai (eu)
- Belarusian: няве́ста f (njavjésta)
- Bengali: বাগ্দত্তা (bn) (bagdotta)
- 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 (hu)
- 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 (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 (ms) 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
- Zazaki: vaşti, nışanın
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French
Etymology
From fiancé + -e.
Pronunciation
Participle
fiancée f sg
- feminine singular of fiancé
Noun
fiancée f (plural fiancées)
- female equivalent of fiancé (“fiancé”); a fiancée
- a large yellow underwing
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