fabliau

English

Etymology

From Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable.

Noun

fabliau (plural fabliaux)

1. A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.
   • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, page 19:

     ‘I’m planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui . . .’

Translations

short farcical tale

• Bourguignon: fableâ m
• Bulgarian: фаблио́ (fablió)
• Catalan: fabliau
• Czech: fabliau
• Dutch: fabliau
• French: fabliau (fr) m
• German: Fabliau (de) n
• Italian: fabliau
• Old French: fabliau m
• Polish: fabliau
• Portuguese: fabliau m
• Russian: фаблио́ (ru) (fablió)
• Swedish: fabliau (sv)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.bli.jo/

Noun

fabliau m (plural fabliaux)

1. fabliau

See also

• fabliau on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Further reading

• “fabliau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Etymology

Diminutive form of fable in the Picard dialect, compare biau

Noun

fabliau oblique singular, m (oblique plural fabliaus, nominative singular fabliaus, nominative plural fabliau)

1. fabliau

Portuguese

Etymology

French fabliau

Noun

fabliau m (plural fabliaus)

1. (literature) fabliau (genre of short farcical tales)