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Sleeping Beauty
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sleeping beauty
English
Etymology
In the genetics sense, so called because the transposon was brought back to activity from a long evolutionary sleep.
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Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Sleeping Beauty.wav US
Proper noun
ies Sleeping Beauty
A fairy tale originally titled La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault.
The main character in this story, who is in unbroken slumber under a magical spell, awaiting the kiss of a prince.
en Vera Sonja Maass Finding Love That Lasts: Breaking the Pattern of Dead End Relationships w:Rowman & Littlefield 2012 81 978-1-4422-1278-7 How far have we come since the days of our favorite childhood fairy tales if women still need a rescuer like the Cinderellas, Sleeping Beauties, and other helpless maidens of the past?
en w:Kathryn Harrison Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured Doubleday 2014 978-0-385-53120-7 Womanly duties, as Joan thought of them, were fine for girls who imagined themselves as Cinderellas or Sleeping Beauties, good girls rewarded for menial housework and, in the case of Sleeping Beauty, a passivity so profound it was deaf, dumb, blind, and comatose.
en Nancy L. Canepa The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales & Their Tellers w:Wayne State University Press 2023 978-0-8143-3475-1 They emote and are long-winded about it; they express affection and passion and have sex and revel in it; they are cruel and vengeful; they whine and complain, gossip, browbeat, and nag—in short, everything that we have always suspected is behind the refractive exteriors of the more famous Cinderellas and Sleeping Beauties. It features a storyteller who, tired of telling the same old Cinderellas and Sleeping Beauties, meets up with some fairies in a wood as he is searching for new material.
en genetics A transposon used in genetic engineering.
en humorous One who is asleep at an inappropriate time.
en Wake up Sleeping Beauty, school starts in 10 minutes.
Derived terms
en Sleeping Beauty problem Sleeping Beauty syndrome
Translations
fairy tale
Albanian: sq Bukuroshja e Fjetur
Arabic: ar الْجَمِيلَة الْنَائِمَة f al-jamīla n-nāʔima
Armenian: hy Քնած գեղեցկուհին
Azerbaijani: az Yatmış gözəl
Basque: eu Loti ederra
Belarusian: be Спя́чая Прыгажу́ня f
Bulgarian: bg Спя́щата краса́вица f
Catalan: ca La Bella Dorment f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 睡公主 Shuìgōngzhǔ, cmn 睡美人 Shuìměirén
Czech: cs Šípková Růženka f
Danish: da Tornerose
Dutch: De nl Schone Slaapster, nl Doornroosje
Esperanto: eo La Dormanta Belulino, eo La dormanta belulo
Estonian: et Okasroosike
Finnish: fi Prinsessa Ruusunen
French: fr La Belle au bois dormant f
Georgian: ka Მძინარე მზეთუნახავი
German: de Dornröschen
Greek: el Ωραία Κοιμωμένη f
Hindi: hi स्लीपिंग ब्यूटी f
Hungarian: hu Csipkerózsika
Icelandic: is Þyrnirós f
Indonesian: id Putri Tidur
Italian: it La Bella addormentata
Japanese: ja 眠れる森の美女 ねむれるもりのびじょ, Nemureru Mori no Bijo
Kazakh: kk Ұйқыдағы сұлу, kk Ұйқыдағы ару
Korean: ko 잠자는 숲속의 공주, ko 잠자는 숲속의 미녀
Macedonian: mk Заспаната убавица f, mk Трнорушка f
Malay: ms Puteri Beradu
Maltese: mt Is-Sbejħa Rieqda
Mongolian: mn Нойрсож буй гүнж
Norwegian: no Tornerose
Persian: fa زیبای خفته zibâ-ye xofte
Polish: pl Śpiąca Królewna f
Portuguese: pt A Bela Adormecida
Romanian: ro Frumoasa adormită f, ro Frumoasa din pădure adormită f
Russian: ru Спя́щая Краса́вица f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Успавана лепотица f
Latin: sh Uspavana lepotica f
Slovak: sk Šípková Ruženka f
Slovene: sl Trnuljčica f
Spanish: es La Bella Durmiente
Swedish: sv Törnrosa
Thai: th เจ้าหญิงนิทรา
Turkish: tr Uyuyan Güzel
Ukrainian: uk Спля́ча Красу́ня f
Uyghur: ug ئۇيقۇدىكى ساھىبجامال
Uzbek: uz Uyqudagi malika
Vietnamese: vi Người đẹp ngủ trong rừng, vi Công chúa ngủ trong rừng
main character in this story
Afrikaans: af Doringrosie
Albanian: sq E Përhitura
Armenian: hy Քնած գեղեցկուհի
Bulgarian: bg Спя́ща краса́вица f
Catalan: ca Bella Dorment f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 睡公主 Shuìgōngzhǔ, cmn 睡美人 Shuìměirén
Danish: da Tornerose
Dutch: nl Doornroosje
Esperanto: eo Dormanta Belulino, eo Dornorozeto
Finnish: fi Prinsessa Ruusunen
French: fr Belle au bois dormant f
German: de Dornröschen
Greek: el Ωραία Κοιμωμένη f
Hungarian: hu Csipkerózsika
Icelandic: is Þyrnirós f
Japanese: ja 眠れる美女 ねむれるびじょ, Nemureru Bijo, ja 眠り姫 ねむりひめ, Nemurihime
Macedonian: mk Заспаната убавица f, mk Трнорушка f
Malay: ms Puteri Beradu
Manx: gv Caillin y Saveen Liauyr
Norwegian: no Tornerose
Polish: pl Śpiąca Królewna f
Portuguese: pt Bela Adormecida f
Romanian: ro Frumoasa adormită f
Russian: ru Спя́щая Краса́вица f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Успавана лепотица f
Latin: sh Uspavana lepotica f
Slovak: sk Šípková Ruženka f
Swedish: sv Törnrosa
Thai: th เจ้าหญิงนิทรา
Turkish: tr Uyuyan Güzel
See also
en Prince Charming
Noun
? 1
en sleeping beauty (Oxalis corniculata species).
Further reading
en endearing terms terms of address
en Brothers Grimm Fairy tale characters Fairy tales Fictional characters Genetic engineering Sleep