fortune-telling

See also: fortunetelling and fortune telling

English

Alternative forms

• fortunetelling
• fortune telling

Noun

fortune-telling (uncountable)

1. The act or practise of predicting the future (especially for money), as by using a crystal ball, reading palms, reading tea leaves in a cup, etc.; prediction of future events, especially those of a personal nature.
   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 242:

     Fortune-telling has been in all countries a gift of the sea-people.

Translations

fortunetelling, predicting one's future

• Arabic: عَرَافَة f (ʕarāfa)
• Azerbaijani: fal (az)
• Burmese: ဗေဒင် (my) (bedang)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 占卜 (zh) (zhānbǔ)

• Esperanto: aŭgurado
• Estonian: ennustamine
• Finnish: ennustaminen (fi)
• French: bonne aventure (fr) f
• Georgian: მკითხაობა (mḳitxaoba)
• German: Wahrsagen n, Wahrsagerei (de) f
• Hausa: haɗɗī̀ m
• Italian: divinazione (it) f
• Japanese: 占い (ja) (うらない, uranai)
• Latin: hariolatio f
• Ottoman Turkish: فال (fal)
• Portuguese: adivinhação (pt) f
• Romanian: prezicere (ro)
• Russian: гада́ние (ru) n (gadánije), ворожба́ (ru) f (vorožbá)
• Swedish: spådom (sv)
• Telugu: సోదె (te) (sōde)
• Turkish: fal (tr)
• Vietnamese: bói (vi), bói toán (vi)
• Volapük: büosag (vo), büosagam
• Welsh: darogan (cy)

See also

connected with fortunetelling

• alectromancy
• astrology
• astromancy
• astroscopy
• augury
• bibliomancy
• cartomancy
• ceromancy
• cheiromancy
• Chinese geomancy
• chronomancy
• clairvoyance
• cold reading
• crystal ball
• crystallomancy
• extispicy
• face reading
• feng shui
• fortune cookie
• gastromancy
• geloscopy
• geomancy
• haruspicy
• horary astrology
• hydromancy
• I Ching
• kau cim sticks
• lithomancy
• metoposcopy
• necromancy
• numerology
• omoplatoscopy
• oneiromancy
• onomancy
• palmistry
• paper fortune teller
• pendulum reading
• pyromancy
• rhabdomancy
• runecasting
• runic divination
• scrying
• ouija board
• planchette
• taromancy
• tasseography
• tasseomancy
• ventriloquism