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From fortune teller
fortune -teller plural fortune-tellers
A person who professes to predict the future in return for money .
"Cross my palm with silver and I'll tell you your fortune," said the fortune-teller .
A cootie catcher .
2006 Games for Language Learning , page 137 :The usual exchange between English children is as follows: A: Who do you love? (referring to one of the names on the fortune-teller ) B: Simon. A: S-I-M-O-N (alternately opens and shuts the device as he or she says each letter).
person who professes to predict the future in return for money
Afrikaans: fortuinverteller toekomsverteller
Armenian: գուշակ (hy) ( gušak )
Azerbaijani: falçı
Bashkir: күрәҙә ( kürəźə ) , күрәҙәсе ( kürəźəse )
Bulgarian: врачка (bg) f ( vračka )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 算命家 (zh) ( suànmìngjiā ) , ( business ) 擇日館 / 择日馆 (zh) ( zháirìguǎn )
Dutch: wichelaar (nl) m wichelaarster (nl) f waarzegger (nl) m
Esperanto: aŭguradisto aŭguradistino aŭguristo divenisto
Finnish: ennustaja (fi) , povari (fi)
French: diseur de bonne aventure (fr) m diseuse de bonne aventure (fr) f
Galician: vidente m or f adiviño m carteiro (gl) m
Georgian: მკითხავი ( mḳitxavi )
German: Wahrsager (de) m Wahrsagerin (de) f
Greek: χαρτομάντης (el) m ( chartomántis ) , χαρτομάντισσα (el) f ( chartomántissa ) , μάντης (el) m ( mántis ) , μάντισσα (el) f ( mántissa ) , χειρομάντισσα (el) f ( cheiromántissa ) , χειρομάντης (el) m ( cheiromántis )
Hebrew: מַגִּיד עֲתִידוֹת (he) m ( magíd 'atidót ) , מַגֶּדֶת עֲתִידוֹת f ( magédet 'atidót )
Hungarian: jós (hu) m jósnő (hu) f jövendőmondó (hu) c
Icelandic: ( ♂ ) spámaður m ( ♀ ) spákona f
Irish: bean feasa f ( female )
Italian: indovina (it) f indovino (it) m chiromante m or f
Japanese: 占い師 (ja) ( うらないし, uranaishi )
Kazakh: жауырыншы ( jauyrynşy )
Kikuyu: mũragũri class 1
Latin: hariolus m hariola f
Macedonian: га́тачка f ( gátačka )
Norman: dîs'resse f d'vîn m
Persian: پیشگو (fa) ( pišgu )
Plautdietsch: Woasaja m
Polish: wróżbiarz (pl) m wróżka (pl) f wróżbita (pl) m wróż (pl) m jasnowidz (pl) m
Portuguese: cartomante (pt) m or f adivinho (pt) m
Romanian: ghicitor (ro) m ghicitoare (ro) f
Russian: ( ♀ only ) гада́лка (ru) f ( gadálka ) , прорица́тель (ru) m ( proricátelʹ ) , прорицательница (ru) f ( proricatelʹnica )
Sanskrit: ज्ञानिन् (sa) m ( jñānin )
Scots: ( ♂ ) spaeman weirdman ( ♀ ) spaewife weirdwife
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: гатар m гатара f врач m врачара f
Roman: gatar (sh) m gatara (sh) f vrač (sh) m vračara (sh) f
Spanish: vidente (es) m or f adivino (es) m adivina (es) f
Swedish: spåman (sv) c spåkvinna (sv) f
Tocharian B: pälkaucäkka
Turkish: falcı (tr)
Ukrainian: воро́жка f ( voróžka ) , ворожби́тка f ( vorožbýtka ) , ворожби́т m ( vorožbýt ) , ворожі́й m ( vorožíj )
Volapük: ( ♂♀ ) büosagan (vo) , ( ♂ ) hibüosagan ( ♀ ) jibüosagan (vo)
West Frisian: wikker c
