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Pinocchio
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pinocchio
English
thumb|Pinocchio in 1916.
Etymology
Borrowed from en it Pinocchio, possibly from the rare Tuscan form it pinocchio pine nut or constructed from it pino pine tree, pine wood, also similar to it Pino, diminutive of it Giuseppe Joseph, as is it Geppetto (the maker of Pinocchio).
Pronunciation
en /pɪˈnəʊ.kjəʊ/ /pɪˈnəʊ.kɪ.əʊ/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Pinocchio.wav Southern England
en /pɪˈnoʊ.ki.oʊ/ US
en əʊkiəʊ 4
Proper noun
The fictional boy made from wood whose nose gets longer with each lie he tells, protagonist of the story The Adventures of Pinocchio (1881–1883) by Carlo Collodi.
en Geppetto
The popular fairy tale about Pinocchio.
Derived terms
en Pinocchian
en Pinocchio illusion
Translations
protagonist
Albanian: sq Pinoku
Arabic: ar بِينُوكْيُو m
Armenian: hy Պինոկիո
Azerbaijani: az Pinokkio
Basque: eu Pinotxo
Belarusian: be Піно́кіа m
Bulgarian: bg Пинокио m
Catalan: ca Pinotxo m
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 皮諾曹 pei4 nok6 cou4, yue 皮諾丘 pei4 nok6 jau1
Mandarin: cmn 皮諾喬 Pínuòqiáo, cmn 皮諾曹 Pínuòcáo, cmn 匹諾曹 Pǐnuòcáo
Danish: da Pinocchio c
Dutch: nl Pinokkio m
Esperanto: eo Pinokjo
Finnish: fi Pinokkio
French: fr Pinocchio m
Galician: gl Pinocho
Georgian: ka პინოქიო
German: de Pinocchio m
Greek: el Πινόκιο m
Hebrew: he פִינוֹקִיוֹ m Pinókio
Hindi: hi पिनोकियो m
Hungarian: hu Pinokkió
Icelandic: is Gosi m
Indonesian: id Pinokio
Italian: it Pinocchio m
Japanese: ja ピノキオ Pinokio, ja ピノッキオ Pinokkio
Korean: ko ^피노키오
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb پینوکیو
Latin: la Pīnoculus m
Lithuanian: lt Pinocchio
Macedonian: mk Пино́кио m
Malay: ms Pinokio
Malayalam: ml പിനോക്യോ
Norwegian: no Pinocchio
Occitan: oc Pinòqui m
Persian: fa پینوکیو
Polish: pl Pinokio m
Portuguese: pt Pinóquio m, pt Pinocchio m
Romanian: ro Pinocchio m
Russian: ru Пино́ккио m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Пинокио m
Latin: sh Pinokio m
Sicilian: scn Pinocchiu m
Slovak: sk Pinocchio
Slovene: sl Ostržek m
Spanish: es Pinocho m
Swahili: sw Pinokyo
Swedish: sv Pinocchio
Tamil: ta பின்னோகியோ
Telugu: te పినోకియో
Thai: th ปิน็อกกีโอ bpì-nɔ́k-gii-oo
Turkish: tr Pinokyo
Ukrainian: uk Піно́ккіо m
Vietnamese: vi Pinocchio
fairy tale
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 匹諾曹 Pǐnuòcáo
Danish: da Pinocchio c
Dutch: nl Pinokkio m
Esperanto: eo Pinokjo
Finnish: fi Pinokkio
French: fr Pinocchio m
German: de Pinocchio m
Hebrew: he פִינוֹקִיוֹ m Pinókio
Icelandic: is Gosi m
Italian: it Pinocchio m
Latin: la Pīnoculus m
Macedonian: mk Пино́кио m
Malay: ms Pinokio
Polish: pl Pinokio m
Portuguese: pt Pinóquio m, pt Pinocchio m
Romanian: ro Pinocchio m
Spanish: es Pinocho m
Thai: th ปิน็อกกีโอ bpì-nɔ́k-gii-oo
Turkish: tr Pinokyo
Noun
One who lies often; a liar.
en liar
One who has difficulty hiding lies.
en
Translations
one who lies often liar
Portuguese: pt Pinóquio m, pt pinóquio m
Spanish: es pinocho m
one who has difficulty hiding lies
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr pînokyo
See also
mul 🤥
Further reading
en Fairy tale characters Fairy tales Fictional characters People
Italian
it:
Etymology
Possibly from the rare Tuscan form it pinocchio pine nut or from it pino pine tree, pine wood occhio.
Pronunciation
Pinòcchio
Proper noun
m
en Pinocchio character and fairy tale
Derived terms
it pinocchiesco
it pinocchietto
it Fairy tales Fictional characters
Portuguese
Proper noun
m
pt Pinóquio