Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: verhaal
- Amharic: ደረጃ
- Arabic: حكاية
- Azerbaijani: nağıl
- Bashkir: әкиәт
- Belarusian: казка
- Bulgarian: приказка
- Bengali: কাহিনী
- Bosnian: priča
- Catalan: història
- Cebuano: sugilanon
- Czech: příběh
- Welsh: stori
- Danish: fortælling
- German: Märchen
- Greek: ιστορία
- Esperanto: rakonto
- Spanish: cuento
- Estonian: lugu
- Basque: ipuin
- Persian: داستان
- Finnish: tarina
- French: conte
- Irish: scéal
- Scottish Gaelic: sgeul
- Galician: conto
- Gujarati: ટેલ
- Hebrew: הסיפור
- Hindi: कहानी
- Croatian: bajka
- Haitian: istwa
- Hungarian: mese
- Armenian: հեքիաթ
- Indonesian: kisah
- Icelandic: saga
- Italian: racconto
- Japanese: 物語
- Javanese: dongeng
- Georgian: ზღაპარი
- Kazakh: ертегі
- Khmer: រឿងនិទាន
- Kannada: ಕಥೆ
- Korean: 화
- Kyrgyz: жомок
- Latin: fabula
- Luxembourgish: Mäerchen
- Lao: ]
- Lithuanian: pasaka
- Latvian: stāsts
- Malagasy: tantara
- Mari: йомак
- Maori: tale
- Macedonian: приказна
- Malayalam: കഥ
- Mongolian: үлгэрийн
- Marathi: कथा
- Hill Mari: ямак
- Malay: kisah
- Maltese: twissija
- Burmese: ပုံပြင်
- Nepali: कथा
- Dutch: verhaal
- Norwegian: fortelling
- Punjabi: ਕਹਾਣੀ
- Papiamento: historia
- Polish: bajka
- Portuguese: conto
- Romanian: poveste
- Russian: сказка
- Sinhalese: කතාවක
- Slovak: rozprávka
- Slovenian: zgodba
- Albanian: përrallë
- Serbian: бајка
- Sundanese: dongéng
- Swedish: berättelse
- Swahili: tale
- Tamil: கதை
- Telugu: కథ
- Tajik: афсонаи
- Thai: นิทาน
- Tagalog: kuwento
- Turkish: masal
- Tatar: әкият
- Udmurt: выжыкыл
- Ukrainian: казка
- Urdu: کہانی
- Uzbek: voqea
- Vietnamese: câu chuyện
- Xhosa: ibali
- Yiddish: מייַסע
- Chinese: 故事
Synonyms, close and similar words for tale
- fairy tale
- folktale
- fairytale
- tales
- yarn
- story
- narrative
- history
- fable
- short story
- anecdote
- narration
- fabrication
- fib
- canard
- novel
- novella
- novelette