Aesop

See also: Æsop

English

Aesop

An Ancient Greek author, famous for the fables ascribed to him.
- 1912, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov, published 1880, Book II, chapter 8:
  I'll win them by politeness, and... and... show them that I've nothing to do with that Aesop, that buffoon, that Pierrot, and have merely been taken in over this affair, just as they have.

ancient Greek author

Arabic: إِيسُوب m (ʔisūb)
Armenian: Եզոպոս (Ezopos)
Old Armenian: Եսովպոս (Esovpos)
Belarusian: Эзо́п m (Ezóp)
Bengali: ঈসপ (iśop)
Bulgarian: Езо́п m (Ezóp)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 伊索 (zh) (Yīsuǒ)
Czech: Ezop m
Danish: Aesop
Finnish: Aisopos (fi)
French: Ésope (fr) m
Middle French: Æsope
German: Äsop (de) m
Greek: Αίσωπος (el) m (Aísopos)
Ancient: Αἴσωπος m (Aísōpos)
Hindi: ईसप m (īsap)
Hungarian: (as a historical figure) Aiszóposz (hu), (in set phrases with “fables”) Ezópus
Icelandic: Esóp m
Italian: Esopo m
Japanese: イソップ (Isoppu), アイソーポス (Aisōposu)
Korean: 이솝 (Isop), 아이소포스 (Aisoposeu)
Latin: Aesōpus (la) m
Macedonian: Езоп m (Ezop)
Marathi: ईसाप m (īsāp)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Æsop

Nynorsk: Æsop
Persian: ازوپ (ezop)
Polish: Ezop (pl) m
Portuguese: Esopo m
Russian: Эзо́п (ru) m (Ezóp)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Езоп m

Roman: Ezop m
Slovak: Ezop m
Spanish: Esopo m
Swedish: Aisopos
Thai: อีสป
Turkish: Ezop
Ukrainian: Езо́п m (Ezóp)
Urdu: ایسپ m (īsap)

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