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English
Etymology
fortune + teller
Pronunciation
Noun
fortune-teller (plural fortune-tellers)
- A person who professes to predict the future in return for money.
"Cross my palm with silver and I'll tell you your fortune," said the fortune-teller.
- A cootie catcher.
2006, Andrew Wright, David Betteridge, Michael Buckby, Games for Language Learning, page 137:The usual exchange between English children is as follows: A: Who do you love? (referring to one of the names on the fortune-teller) B: Simon. A: S-I-M-O-N (alternately opens and shuts the device as he or she says each letter).
Translations
person who professes to predict the future in return for money
- Afrikaans: fortuinverteller, toekomsverteller
- Armenian: գուշակ (hy) (gušak)
- Azerbaijani: falçı
- Bashkir: күрәҙә (kürəźə), күрәҙәсе (kürəźəse)
- Bulgarian: врачка (bg) f (vračka)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 算命家 (zh) (suànmìngjiā), (business) 擇日館／择日馆 (zh) (zháirìguǎn)
- Dutch: wichelaar (nl) m, wichelaarster (nl) f, waarzegger (nl) m
- Esperanto: aŭguradisto, aŭguradistino, aŭguristo, divenisto
- Finnish: ennustaja (fi), povari (fi)
- French: diseur de bonne aventure (fr) m, diseuse de bonne aventure (fr) f
- Galician: vidente m or f, adiviño m, carteiro (gl) m
- Georgian: მკითხავი (mḳitxavi)
- German: Wahrsager (de) m, Wahrsagerin (de) f
- Greek: χαρτομάντης (el) m (chartomántis), χαρτομάντισσα (el) f (chartomántissa), μάντης (el) m (mántis), μάντισσα (el) f (mántissa), χειρομάντισσα (el) f (cheiromántissa), χειρομάντης (el) m (cheiromántis)
- Hebrew: מַגִּיד עֲתִידוֹת (he) m (magíd 'atidót), מַגֶּדֶת עֲתִידוֹת f (magédet 'atidót)
- Hungarian: jós (hu) m, jósnő (hu) f, jövendőmondó (hu) c
- Icelandic: (♂) spámaður m, (♀) spákona f
- Irish: bean feasa f (female)
- Italian: lettore della mano m
- Japanese: 占い師 (ja) (うらないし, uranaishi)
- Kazakh: жауырыншы (jauyrynşy)
- Kikuyu: mũragũri class 1
- Latin: hariolus m, hariola f
- Macedonian: га́тачка f (gátačka)
- Norman: dîs'resse f, d'vîn m
- Persian: پیشگو (fa) (pišgu)
- Plautdietsch: Woasaja m
- Polish: wróżbiarz (pl) m, wróżka (pl) f, wróżbita (pl) m, wróż (pl) m, jasnowidz (pl) m
- Portuguese: cartomante (pt) m or f, adivinho (pt) m
- Romanian: ghicitor (ro) m, ghicitoare (ro) f
- Russian: (♀ only) гада́лка (ru) f (gadálka), прорица́тель (ru) m (proricátelʹ), прорицательница (ru) f (proricatelʹnica)
- Sanskrit: ज्ञानिन् (sa) m (jñānin)
- Scots: (♂) spaeman, weirdman; (♀) spaewife, weirdwife
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гатар m, гатара f, врач m, врачара f
- Roman: gatar (sh) m, gatara (sh) f, vrač (sh) m, vračara (sh) f
- Spanish: vidente (es) m or f, adivino (es) m, adivina (es) f
- Swedish: spåman (sv) c, spåkvinna (sv) f
- Tocharian B: pälkaucäkka
- Turkish: falcı (tr)
- Ukrainian: воро́жка f (voróžka), ворожби́тка f (vorožbýtka), ворожби́т m (vorožbýt), ворожі́й m (vorožíj)
- Volapük: (♂♀) büosagan (vo), (♂) hibüosagan, (♀) jibüosagan (vo)
- West Frisian: wikker c
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