fiancé

See also: fiance and fiancée

English

Alternative forms

• fiance

Etymology

Borrowed from French fiancé.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fiˈɑnseɪ/, /ˌfiɑnˈseɪ/, /fiɑnˈseɪ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fiˈɒ̃seɪ/, /fiˈɒnseɪ/, /fiˈɑːnseɪ/

• Audio (UK)

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• Homophone: fiancée

Noun

fiancé (plural fiancés, feminine fiancée)

1. A man who is engaged to be married; the man to whom one is engaged.
2. (proscribed) A person who is engaged to be married; the person to whom one is engaged.
   • 2009, B. R. Laine, Tales from Suffolk County, page 107:

     West said that she was proud of their relationship and is looking forward to meeting his fiancé.

   • 2018, Christina J. Easley -, Disaster Free Survivor Strikes Back: Storms of Love & Loss, →ISBN, page 163:

     He could not bear to think about the idea that his fiancé could die in their dream home where they had shared so many unforgettable moments together.

   • 2018, T. K. Kohl, Quest of the Staff and the Sword, →ISBN, page 153:

     Matt called his fiancé and told her to come to the office.

Usage notes

• Traditionally, the spelling fiancé is used for a man who is engaged, with fiancée being the female counterpart (this is a reflection of the corresponding distinction in French). However, this distinction is not reliably followed today.

Derived terms

• ex-fiancé

 

Translations

man who is engaged to be married

• Afrikaans: verloofde
• Albanian: dhëndër (sq) m
• Arabic: خَطِيب m (ḵaṭīb)
• Armenian: փեսա (hy) (pʿesa), փեսացու (hy) (pʿesacʿu)
• Azerbaijani: adaxlı
• Basque: senargai (eu), gizongai (eu)
• Belarusian: жані́х m (žaníx)
• Bengali: বাগ্দত্ত (bagdotto)
• Bulgarian: годени́к (bg) m (godeník), жени́х (bg) m (ženíh)
• Burmese: သတို့သား (my) (sa.tui.sa:) (bridegroom)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 未婚夫 (zh) (wèihūnfū)

• Czech: snoubenec (cs) m, zasnoubený m
• Dalmatian: ninapto m
• Danish: forlovet, forlovede
• Dutch: verloofde (nl) m
• Esperanto: fianĉo (eo)
• Estonian: peigmees
• Finnish: sulhanen (fi)
• French: fiancé (fr) m
• Georgian: საქმრო (sakmro), ნეფე (nepe)
• German: Verlobter (de) m, der Verlobte (de) m
• Greek: αρραβωνιαστικός (el) m (arravoniastikós)
• Hebrew: אָרוּס (he) m (arús)
• Hindi: दुलहा (hi) m (dulhā), मँगेतर (hi) m (maṅgetar), मंगेतर m (maṅgetar), वर (hi) m (var), वाग्दत्त (hi) m (vāgdatt)
• Hungarian: vőlegény (hu), (either gender) jegyes (hu)
• Icelandic: unnusti (is) m
• Ido: fiancitulo (io)
• Indonesian: tunangan (id)
• Italian: fidanzato (it) m
• Japanese: 婚約者 (ja) (こんやくしゃ, kon'yakusha) (both fiancé and fiancée), フィアンセ (ja) (fianse)
• Kazakh: күйеу (küieu)
• Khmer: បុរសសងសា (bo’rɑh sɑɑŋ saa), គូកំណាន់ (kuu kɑmnan)
• Korean: 약혼자(約婚者) (ko) (yakhonja)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دەسگیران (desgîran)

• Kyrgyz: куйоо (kuyoo), күйөөлөгүч (küyöölögüc)
• Ladino:

  Roman: espozado m, aprometido m, despozado m

• Lao: ເຈົ້າບ່າວ (chao bāo)
• Latin: sponsus m, fidentiatus
• Latvian: līgavainis m
• Lithuanian: sužadėtinis m
• Macedonian: сврше́ник m (svršénik)
• Malagasy: fofom-bady
• Malay: tunang (ms) n
• Malayalam: പ്രതിശ്രുത വരൻ (pratiśruta varaṉ)
• Maori: whaiāipo
• Mongolian: сүйт залуу (süjt zaluu)
• Norman: fianchi m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forlovede m

• Pashto: وديزڼ m (wǝdǝzãṇ), ودګڼی m (wǝdgaṇay), چنغول m (čanǧól), نامزاد m (nāmzãd), زڼى m (zᶕṇay), ژڼى m (žǝ́ṇay)
• Persian: نامزد (fa) (nâmzad) (fiancé or fiancée)
• Polish: narzeczony (pl) m
• Portuguese: noivo (pt) m
• Romanian: logodnic (ro) m
• Russian: жени́х (ru) m (ženíx), наречённый (ru) m (narečónnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: suirgheach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вереник m, вјереник m, заручник m

  Roman: verenik (sh) m, vjerenik (sh) m, zaručnik (sh) m

• Sicilian: zitu (scn) m
• Slovak: snúbenec m, ženích m
• Slovene: zaročenec m
• Spanish: novio (es) m, prometido (es) m
• Swahili: mchumba (sw)
• Swedish: fästman (sv) c
• Tagalog: lalaking katikya, lalaking katipan
• Tajik: домод (tg) (domod)
• Tarifit: isri m
• Thai: คู่หมั้น (th) (kûu-mân) (fiancé or fiancée)
• Turkish: nişanlı (tr)
• Turkmen: adagly (tk)
• Ukrainian: жени́х m (ženýx), наре́чений m (naréčenyj)
• Urdu: منگیتر m (mangetar)
• Uyghur: يىگىت (yigit), يۈرگىنى (yürgini)
• Uzbek: qalliq (uz)
• Vietnamese: chồng chưa cưới, vị hôn phu
• Welsh: dyweddi m, darpar ŵr m
• Yiddish: חתן m (khosn)

person engaged to be married

• Dutch: verloofde (nl)
• Esperanto: gefianĉo
• Finnish: kihlattu (fi)
• Ido: fiancito (io)
• Latin: sponsus m, sponsa f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forlovede m

• Swahili: mchumba (sw)
• Tagalog: katikya

See also

• engage
• marriage

Anagrams

• fancie

French

Etymology

From fiancer (“to get engaged”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjɑ̃.se/, /fi.jɑ̃.se/

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Adjective

fiancé (feminine fiancée, masculine plural fiancés, feminine plural fiancées)

1. engaged

Noun

fiancé m (plural fiancés, feminine fiancée)

1. fiancé

Participle

fiancé (feminine fiancée, masculine plural fiancés, feminine plural fiancées)

1. past participle of fiancer

Further reading

• “fiancé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.