Bluebeard

See also: bluebeard

English

Bluebeard by Harry Clarke

Etymology

Calque of French Barbe-Bleue (literally “blue beard”).

Proper noun

Bluebeard

1. A famous fairy tale written by Charles Perrault in 1697 about a violent nobleman who has the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of his current wife to avoid the same fate.
2. The nobleman who is the title character of the story.

Translations

the famous fairy tale

• Arabic: اَللِّحْيَة الزَّرْقَاء f (al-liḥya z-zarqāʔ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藍鬍子 / 蓝胡子 (Lán Húzi)

• Dutch: Blauwbaard (nl)
• Esperanto: Blubarbulo
• Finnish: Ritari Siniparta
• French: Barbe-Bleue (fr) m
• German: Blaubart m
• Greek: Κυανοπώγων m (Kyanopógon)
• Italian: Barbablù m
• Japanese: 青ひげ (あおひげ, Aohige) (青髭 (あおひげ, Aohige))
• Kazakh: Көк сақал (Kök saqal)
• Mongolian: Хөх сахалт (Xöx saxalt)
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: Sinobrody m
• Romanian: Barbă Albastră
• Russian: Си́няя Борода́ (ru) f (Sínjaja Borodá)
• Swedish: Blåskägg
• Turkish: Mavi Sakal

the title character

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: Синята Брада (Sinjata Brada)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藍鬍子 / 蓝胡子 (Lán Húzi)

• Dutch: Blauwbaard (nl)
• Finnish: Ritari Siniparta
• French: Barbe-Bleue (fr) m
• German: Blaubart m
• Greek: Κυανοπώγων m (Kyanopógon)
• Italian: Barbablù m
• Japanese: 青ひげ (あおひげ, Aohige) (青髭 (あおひげ, Aohige))
• Norwegian: Ridder Blåskjegg
• Polish: Sinobrody m
• Portuguese: Barba Azul m
• Romanian: Barbă Albastră
• Russian: Си́няя Борода́ (ru) f (Sínjaja Borodá)
• Swedish: Blåskägg

Noun

Bluebeard (plural Bluebeards)

1. A man who marries and then murders one wife after another.
   • 2012, Lacey Baldwin-Smith, Henry VIII, page c:

     Henry never lived down his reputation as a Bluebeard, and only a few years before his death sporting gentlemen in Antwerp were laying bets that the English Lothario would divorce and marry once again.

Derived terms

• Bluebeardesque

 

References

• Webster's Collegiate Dictionary of the English Language, International Encyclopedic Edition, 2002.