Rumpelstiltskin

English

Alternative forms

Rumplestiltskin

Etymology

From German Rumpelstilzchen; Wikipedia discusses the hypotheses.

Proper noun

Rumpelstiltskin

A fairy tale about a dwarf who saves the miller’s daughter by spinning straw into gold in exchange for her first-born child, but is foiled when she guesses his name.
The fictional dwarf who is the title character of that story.

Synonyms

English: Tom Tit Tot (from English Fairy Tales, collected & edited by Joseph Jacobs, 1884)

Translations

the fairy tale

Albanian: Shkurtashtrembaluqi
Chinese:
Mandarin: 名字古怪的小矮人兒 / 名字古怪的小矮人儿 (Míngzì gǔguài de xiǎo ǎirénr)
Czech: Rampelník (cs) m
Dutch: Repelsteeltje n
Finnish: Tittelintuure, Rompanruoja, Hopskukkeli
French: Grigrigredinmenufretin (fr) m, Nain Tracassin
Galician: please add this translation if you can
German: Rumpelstilzchen n
Greek: Ρουμπελστίλτσκιν m (Roumpelstíltskin)
Hungarian: Tűzmanócska
Italian: Tremotino m
Japanese: ルンペルシュティルツキン (Runperushutirutsukin)
Korean: 룸펠슈틸츠헨 (Rumpelsyutilcheuhen)
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Marathi: रम्पेलस्टिल्टस्किन f (rampelasṭilṭaskin)
Polish: Hałasik m
Portuguese: Rumpelstiltskin m, Rumpelstilzchen m, Rumpelstichen m
Russian: Румпельшти́льцхен m (Rumpelʹštílʹcxen)
Ukrainian: Румпельштільцхен m (Rumpelʹštilʹcxen)

the fictional dwarf

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 龍佩爾施迪爾欽 / 龙佩尔施迪尔钦 (Lóngpèi'ěrshīdí'ěrqīn), 侏儒妖 (Zhūrúyāo), 侏儒怪 (Zhūrúguài)
Czech: Rumplcimprcampr (cs) m, Rampelník (cs) m
Dutch: Repelsteeltje n
Finnish: Tittelintuure, Rompanruoja, Hopskukkeli
French: Grigrigredinmenufretin (fr) m, Barbichu (fr) m, Broumpristoche (fr) m, Outroupistache (fr) m, Perlimpinpin (fr) m, Tracassin (fr) m
Galician: please add this translation if you can
German: Rumpelstilzchen n
Greek: Ρουμπελστίλτσκιν m (Roumpelstíltskin)
Italian: Tremotino m
Japanese: ルンペルシュティルツキン (Runperushutirutsukin)
Korean: 룸펠슈틸츠헨 (Rumpelsyutilcheuhen)
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Marathi: रम्पेलस्टिल्टस्किन m (rampelasṭilṭaskin)
Polish: Titelitury, Rumpelsztyk m, Hałasik m, Rupiec-Kopeć m
Portuguese: Rumpelstiltskin m, Rumpelstilzchen m, Rumpelstichen m
Russian: Румпельшти́льцхен m (Rumpelʹštílʹcxen)
Slovak: Martinko Klingáč m
Ukrainian: Румпельштільцхен m (Rumpelʹštilʹcxen)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} עוץ לי גוץ לי (utz li gutz li)
Spanish: (literal translation: the jumping midget) ^{(please verify)} El enano saltarín m

Anagrams

Rumplestiltskin