English
Alternative forms
Noun
fiancé (plural fiancés, feminine fiancée)
- A man who is engaged to be married.
- A person engaged to be married.
- 2009, B. R. Laine, Tales from Suffolk County, page 107:
- West said that she was proud of their relationship and is looking forward to meeting his fiancé.
Usage notes
- Traditionally, the spelling fiancé is used for a man who is engaged, with fiancée being the female counterpart. (This is a reflection of the corresponding distinction in French.) However, this distinction is not reliably followed today.
Translations
man who is engaged to be married
- Afrikaans: verloofde
- Albanian: dhëndër (sq) m
- Arabic: خَطِيب m (ḵaṭīb)
- Armenian: փեսա (hy) (pʿesa), փեսացու (hy) (pʿesacʿu)
- Azeri: adaxlı
- Basque: senargai (eu), gizongai (eu)
- Belarusian: жані́х m (žaníx)
- Bengali: বাগ্দত্ত (bagdôtt)
- Bulgarian: годени́к (bg) m (godeník), жени́х (bg) m (ženíh)
- Burmese: သတို့သား (my) (sa.tui.sa:) (bridegroom)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 未婚夫 (zh) (wèihūnfū)
- Czech: snoubenec m, zasnoubený m
- Dalmatian: ninapto m
- Danish: forlovet, forlovede
- Dutch: verloofde (nl) m
- Esperanto: fianĉo
- Estonian: peigmees
- Finnish: sulhanen (fi)
- French: fiancé (fr) m
- Georgian: საქმრო (sakmro), ნეფე (nepe)
- German: Verlobter (de) m, der Verlobte (de) m
- Greek: αρραβωνιαστικός (el) m (arravoniastikós)
- Hebrew: אָרוּס (he) m (arús)
- Hindi: दुलहा (hi) m (dulhā), मँगेतर (hi) m (mãgetar), मंगेतर m (maṅgetar), वर (hi) m (var), वाग्दत्त (hi) m (vāgdatt)
- Hungarian: vőlegény (hu), (either gender) jegyes (hu)
- Icelandic: unnusti (is) m
- Ido: fiancitulo (io)
- Indonesian: tunangan (id)
- Italian: fidanzato (it) m
- 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: күйеу (küyew)
- Khmer: បុរសសងសា (bo’rɑh sɑɑŋ saa), គូកំណាន់ (kuu kɑmnan)
- Korean: 약혼자 (ko) (yakhonja) (約婚者 (ko))
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: دهسگیران
- Kyrgyz: куйоо (kuyoo), күйөөлөгүч (küyöölögüç)
- Ladino:
- Roman: espozado m
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- Lao: ເຈົ້າບ່າວ (chao bāo)
- Latin: sponsus, fidentiatus
- Latvian: līgavainis m
- Lithuanian: sužadėtinis m
- Macedonian: сврше́ник m (svršénik)
- Malagasy: fofom-bady (mg)
- Malay: tunang n
- Malayalam: പ്രതിശ്രുത വരൻ (pratiśruta varan)
- Maori: whaiāipo
- Mongolian: сүйт залуу (süjt zaluu)
- Norman: fianchi m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forlovede m
- Persian: نامزد (fa) (nâmzad) (fiancé or fiancée)
- Polish: narzeczony (pl) m
- Portuguese: noivo (pt) m
- Romanian: logodnic (ro) m
- Russian: жени́х (ru) m (ženíx), наречённый (ru) m (narečónnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: suirgheach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вереник m, вјереник m, заручник m
- Roman: verenik (sh) m, vjerenik (sh) m, zaručnik (sh) m
- Sicilian: zitu (scn) m
- Slovak: snúbenec m, ženích m
- Slovene: zaročenec m
- Spanish: novio (es) m, prometido (es) m
- Swahili: mchumba (sw)
- Swedish: fästman (sv) c
- Tagalog: lalaking katikya, lalaking katipan
- Tajik: домод (tg) (domod)
- Thai: คู่หมั้น (th) (kûu-mân) (fiancé or fiancée)
- Turkish: nişanlı (tr)
- Turkmen: adagly (tk)
- Ukrainian: жени́х m (ženýx), наре́чений m (naréčenyj)
- Urdu: منگیتر m (mangetar)
- Uzbek: qalliq (uz)
- Vietnamese: chồng chưa cưới, vị hôn phu
- Welsh: dyweddi m, darpar ŵr m
- Yiddish: חתן m (khosn)
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person engaged to be married
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