novel

Etymology 1
From, from (modern , ), from , diminutive of. .

Adjective

 * 1) Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new.
 * 2) Original, especially in an interesting way; new and striking; not of the typical or ordinary type.
 * 1) Original, especially in an interesting way; new and striking; not of the typical or ordinary type.

Usage notes

 * Said of ideas, ways, etc.

Translations

 * Arabic: مُسْتَجِدّ
 * Asturian: novedosu
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 新穎
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, neotřelý
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, uudenlainen
 * French:, , ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: καινοπρεπής, νεοχμός
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin: novellus
 * Macedonian: нов, несекојдневен
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: pya
 * Telugu: వినూత్న
 * Thai: แนวใหม่
 * Turkish:

Etymology 2
Borrowed from, from , feminine of. .

Noun

 * 1) A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.
 * 2)  A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work.
 * 1)  A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Asturian: novela
 * Azerbaijani:, novella
 * Basque: eleberri, nobela
 * Belarusian: рама́н, навэ́ла, апо́весць
 * Bengali:
 * Bhojpuri: उपन्यास
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Carpathian Rusyn: рома́н
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 小說
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: romano
 * Estonian: ,
 * Faroese: skaldsøga
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:, ნოველა
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: skáldsaga
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: romance
 * Irish: úrscéal, nóibhille
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh:, повесть, новелла
 * Khmer: ប្រលោមលោក, រ៉ូម៉ង់
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: роман, новелла, повесть
 * Lao: ເລື່ອງສັ້ນ
 * Latin: fābula Rōmānēnsis, fābula Mīlēsia, mythistoria
 * Latvian: romāns, novele
 * Ligurian: cónto, racónto
 * Lithuanian: romanas, novelė
 * Macedonian:, нове́ла
 * Malay: novel,
 * Maori: pakimaero
 * Marathi:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Oromo: asoosama
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: nobhail
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ро̀ма̄н, новѐла
 * Roman: ,
 * Sinhalese: නවකතාව
 * Slovak: román, novela
 * Slovene:, novela
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: nobela, akdang-buhay, kathambuhay
 * Tajik: роман, новелла,, ҳикоя,
 * Tatar: роман, новелла
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: roman
 * Ukrainian: рома́н, ,
 * Urdu: ناول
 * Uyghur: رومان
 * Uzbek:, , ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: ראָמאַן

Etymology 3
From, from , from , feminine of.

Noun

 * 1)  A novelty; something new.

Etymology 4
Borrowed from, feminine of.

Noun

 * 1)  A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.

Etymology
From, from , from , feminine of. .

Noun

 * : a work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.

Etymology
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1) new

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) new

Etymology
, from. .

Adjective

 * , new

Noun

 * 1) newbie, green