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fabled adjective

  • Made known by fables or reputation; legendary, famed.
 legendaarinen
  • Known only in fables; fictitious.
 satu-, satumainen, taru-, tarumainen

fable noun

  /ˈfeɪbəl/
  • A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
 satu, taru
  • Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
 juttu, tarina, taru
  • Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
 taru, vale

fable verb

  /ˈfeɪbəl/
  • (transitive, archaic) To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.
 puhua omiaan
  • (intransitive, archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
 sepittää (satuja)
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