Rumpelstiltskin

English

Alternative forms

• Rumplestiltskin

Etymology

German Rumpelstilzchen

Proper noun

Rumpelstiltskin

1. A fairy tale about a dwarf who saves the miller’s daughter by spinning straw into gold in exchange for her first-born child, but is foiled when she guesses his name.
2. The fictional dwarf who is the title character of that story.

Synonyms

• English: Tom Tit Tot (from English Fairy Tales, collected & edited by Joseph Jacobs, 1884)

Translations

the fairy tale

Albanian: Shkurtashtrembaluqi Chinese: Mandarin: 名字古怪的小矮人兒／名字古怪的小矮人儿 (Míngzì gǔguài de xiǎo ǎirénr) Czech: Rampelník (cs) m Dutch: Repelsteeltje n Finnish: Tittelintuure, Rompanruoja, Hopskukkeli French: Grigrigredinmenufretin (fr) m, Nain Tracassin Galician: please add this translation if you can German: Rumpelstilzchen n Greek: Ρουμπελστίλτσκιν m (Roumpelstíltskin) Hungarian: Tűzmanócska Italian: Tremotino m Japanese: ルンペルシュティルツキン (Runperushutirutsukin) Korean: 룸펠슈틸츠헨 (Rumpelsyutilcheuhen) Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Marathi: रम्पेलस्टिल्टस्किन f (rampelasṭilṭaskin) Polish: Hałasik m Portuguese: Rumpelstiltskin m, Rumpelstilzchen m, Rumpelstichen m Russian: Румпельшти́льцхен m (Rumpelʹštílʹcxen) Ukrainian: Румпельштільцхен m (Rumpelʹštilʹcxen)

the fictional dwarf

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 龍佩爾施迪爾欽／龙佩尔施迪尔钦 (Lóngpèi'ěrshīdí'ěrqīn), 侏儒妖 (Zhūrúyāo), 侏儒怪 (Zhūrúguài) Czech: Rumplcimprcampr (cs) m, Rampelník (cs) m Dutch: Repelsteeltje n Finnish: Tittelintuure, Rompanruoja, Hopskukkeli French: Grigrigredinmenufretin (fr) m, Barbichu (fr) m, Broumpristoche (fr) m, Outroupistache (fr) m, Perlimpinpin (fr) m, Tracassin (fr) m Galician: please add this translation if you can German: Rumpelstilzchen n Greek: Ρουμπελστίλτσκιν m (Roumpelstíltskin) Italian: Tremotino m Japanese: ルンペルシュティルツキン (Runperushutirutsukin) Korean: 룸펠슈틸츠헨 (Rumpelsyutilcheuhen) Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Marathi: रम्पेलस्टिल्टस्किन m (rampelasṭilṭaskin) Polish: Titelitury, Rumpelsztyk m, Hałasik m, Rupiec-Kopeć m Portuguese: Rumpelstiltskin m, Rumpelstilzchen m, Rumpelstichen m Russian: Румпельшти́льцхен m (Rumpelʹštílʹcxen) Slovak: Martinko Klingáč m Ukrainian: Румпельштільцхен m (Rumpelʹštilʹcxen)

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Translations to be checked

Hebrew: (please verify) עוץ לי גוץ לי (utz li gutz li) Spanish: (literal translation: the jumping midget) (please verify) El enano saltarín m

Further reading

• Rumpelstiltskin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Rumplestiltskin