Sleeping Beauty

See also: sleeping beauty

English

Etymology

In the genetics sense, so called because the transposon was brought back to activity from a long evolutionary sleep.

The prince found the Sleeping Beauty

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Sleeping Beauty (plural Sleeping Beauties)

1. A fairy tale originally titled La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault.
2. The main character in this story, who is in unbroken slumber under a magical spell, awaiting the kiss of a prince.
   • 2012, Vera Sonja Maass, Finding Love That Lasts: Breaking the Pattern of Dead End Relationships, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 81:

     How far have we come since the days of our favorite childhood fairy tales if women still need a rescuer like the Cinderellas, Sleeping Beauties, and other helpless maidens of the past?

   • 2014, Kathryn Harrison, Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured, Doubleday, →ISBN:

     Womanly duties, as Joan thought of them, were fine for girls who imagined themselves as Cinderellas or Sleeping Beauties, good girls rewarded for menial housework and, in the case of Sleeping Beauty, a passivity so profound it was deaf, dumb, blind, and comatose.

   • 2023, Nancy L. Canepa, transl., The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales & Their Tellers, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN:

     They emote and are long-winded about it; they express affection and passion and have sex and revel in it; they are cruel and vengeful; they whine and complain, gossip, browbeat, and nag—in short, everything that we have always suspected is behind the refractive exteriors of the more famous Cinderellas and Sleeping Beauties. […] It features a storyteller who, tired of telling the same old Cinderellas and Sleeping Beauties, meets up with some fairies in a wood as he is searching for new material.

3. (genetics) A transposon used in genetic engineering.

Derived terms

• Sleeping Beauty problem
• Sleeping Beauty syndrome

Translations

fairy tale

Albanian: Bukuroshja e Fjetur Arabic: الْجَمِيلَة الْنَائِمَة f (al-jamīla n-nāʔima) Armenian: Քնած գեղեցկուհին (Kʻnac geġecʻkuhin) Azerbaijani: Yatmış gözəl Basque: Loti ederra Belarusian: Спя́чая Прыгажу́ня f (Spjáčaja Pryhažúnja) Bulgarian: Спя́щата краса́вица f (Spjáštata krasávica) Catalan: La Bella Dorment f Chinese: Mandarin: 睡公主 (Shuìgōngzhǔ), 睡美人 (zh) (Shuìměirén) Czech: Šípková Růženka (cs) f Danish: Tornerose (da) Dutch: De Schone Slaapster, Doornroosje Esperanto: La Dormanta Belulino, La dormanta belulo Estonian: Okasroosike Finnish: Prinsessa Ruusunen French: La Belle au bois dormant f Georgian: Მძინარე მზეთუნახავი (Mʒinare mzetunaxavi) German: Dornröschen (de) Greek: Ωραία Κοιμωμένη (el) f (Oraía Koimoméni) Hindi: स्लीपिंग ब्यूटी f (slīpiṅg byūṭī) Hungarian: Csipkerózsika (hu) Icelandic: Þyrnirós (is) f Indonesian: Putri Tidur Italian: La Bella addormentata Japanese: 眠れる森の美女 (ねむれるもりのびじょ, Nemureru Mori no Bijo) Kazakh: Ұйқыдағы сұлу (Ūiqydağy sūlu), Ұйқыдағы ару (Ūiqydağy aru) Korean: 잠자는 숲속의 공주 (jamjaneun supsogui gongju), 잠자는 숲속의 미녀 (jamjaneun supsogui minyeo) Macedonian: Заспаната убавица f (Zaspanata ubavica), Трнорушка f (Trnoruška) Malay: Puteri Beradu Maltese: Is-Sbejħa Rieqda Mongolian: Нойрсож буй гүнж (Nojrsož buj günž) Norwegian: Tornerose (no) Persian: زیبای خفته (zibâ-ye xofte) Polish: Śpiąca Królewna f Portuguese: A Bela Adormecida Romanian: Frumoasa adormită f, Frumoasa din pădure adormită f Russian: Спя́щая Краса́вица (ru) f (Spjáščaja Krasávica) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Успавана лепотица f Roman: Uspavana lepotica f Slovak: Šípková Ruženka f Slovene: Trnuljčica (sl) f Spanish: La Bella Durmiente Swedish: Törnrosa (sv) Thai: เจ้าหญิงนิทรา (th) (jâo-yǐng-nít-traa) Turkish: Uyuyan Güzel (tr) Ukrainian: Спля́ча Красу́ня f (Spljáča Krasúnja) Uyghur: ئۇيقۇدىكى ساھىبجامال (uyqudiki sahibjamal) Uzbek: Uyqudagi malika Vietnamese: Người đẹp ngủ trong rừng, Công chúa ngủ trong rừng

main character in this story

Afrikaans: Doringrosie Albanian: E Përhitura Armenian: Քնած գեղեցկուհի (Kʻnac geġecʻkuhi) Bulgarian: Спя́ща краса́вица f (Spjášta krasávica) Catalan: Bella Dorment f Chinese: Mandarin: 睡公主 (Shuìgōngzhǔ), 睡美人 (zh) (Shuìměirén) Danish: Tornerose (da) Dutch: Doornroosje Esperanto: Dormanta Belulino, Dornorozeto Finnish: Prinsessa Ruusunen French: Belle au bois dormant (fr) f German: Dornröschen (de) Greek: Ωραία Κοιμωμένη (el) f (Oraía Koimoméni) Hungarian: Csipkerózsika (hu) Icelandic: Þyrnirós (is) f Japanese: 眠れる美女 (ねむれるびじょ, Nemureru Bijo), 眠り姫 (ねむりひめ, Nemurihime) Macedonian: Заспаната убавица f (Zaspanata ubavica), Трнорушка f (Trnoruška) Malay: Puteri Beradu Manx: Caillin y Saveen Liauyr Norwegian: Tornerose (no) Polish: Śpiąca Królewna f Portuguese: Bela Adormecida f Romanian: Frumoasa adormită f Russian: Спя́щая Краса́вица (ru) f (Spjáščaja Krasávica) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Успавана лепотица f Roman: Uspavana lepotica f Slovak: Šípková Ruženka f Swedish: Törnrosa (sv) Thai: เจ้าหญิงนิทรา (th) (jâo-yǐng-nít-traa) Turkish: Uyuyan Güzel (tr)

See also

• Prince Charming

Noun

Sleeping Beauty

1. Alternative form of sleeping beauty (Oxalis corniculata).

Further reading

• Sleeping Beauty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia