Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: fable
- Amharic: fable
- Arabic: الخرافة
- Azerbaijani: bir əfsanə
- Bashkir: басня
- Belarusian: байка
- Bulgarian: басня
- Bengali: উপকথা
- Bosnian: bajka
- Catalan: la faula
- Cebuano: sugilanon
- Czech: bajka
- Welsh: chwedl
- Danish: fabel
- German: Fabel
- Greek: fable
- Esperanto: fablo
- Spanish: fábula
- Estonian: teisik
- Basque: fabula
- Persian: حکایت
- Finnish: fable
- French: fable
- Irish: fable
- Scottish Gaelic: bheil saoibhsgeul
- Galician: fábula
- Gujarati: આખ્યાન કોષ
- Hebrew: המשל
- Hindi: कल्पित कहानी
- Croatian: basne
- Haitian: fab
- Hungarian: mese
- Armenian: the առակ
- Indonesian: dongeng
- Icelandic: dæmisaga
- Italian: favola
- Japanese: 寓話"
- Javanese: fabel
- Georgian: იგავი
- Kazakh: мысал
- Khmer: រ្យេងល្បើក
- Kannada: ಫೇಬಲ್
- Korean: 페이블
- Kyrgyz: басня
- Latin: fabula
- Luxembourgish: Fabel
- Lao: ເອ
- Lithuanian: pasakėčia
- Latvian: fabula
- Malagasy: angano
- Mari: басне
- Maori: pakiwaitara
- Macedonian: приказна
- Malayalam: കെട്ടുകഥ
- Mongolian: егт
- Marathi: दंतकथा
- Hill Mari: ямак
- Malay: dongengan
- Maltese: - serje
- Burmese: ပုံပြင်
- Nepali: छोटो कथा
- Dutch: fable
- Norwegian: fable
- Punjabi: fable
- Papiamento: bula
- Polish: bajka
- Portuguese: fable
- Romanian: fabula
- Russian: басня
- Sinhalese: fable
- Slovak: fable
- Slovenian: basni
- Albanian: fabulën
- Serbian: бајка
- Sundanese: fabel
- Swedish: fabel
- Swahili: hadithi zilizotungwa
- Tamil: கட்டுக்கதை
- Telugu: fable
- Tajik: басня
- Thai: fable
- Tagalog: kuwentong nagbibigay-aral
- Turkish: fabl
- Tatar: басня
- Udmurt: басня
- Ukrainian: байка
- Urdu: افسانہ
- Uzbek: masal
- Vietnamese: truyền thuyết
- Xhosa: fable
- Yiddish: לעגענדע
- Chinese: 寓言
Synonyms, close and similar words for fable
- fish story
- fiction
- fabrication
- invention
- story
- tale
- fairytale
- tales
- fairy tale
- legend
- folktale
- fib
- falsehood
- mendacity
- proverb
- parable
- apologue
- allegory
- myth
- mythos