Tom Thumb

English

Tom Thumb stealing the ogre's seven-league boots

A fairy-tale character who is the size of a person's thumb; the protagonist and hero of the fairy tale The History of Tom Thumb.

→ French: Tom Pouce
- → Dutch: tompoes
  - → English: tompouce
- → Limburgish: tompoeske

the thumb-sized hero of a fairy tale

Afrikaans: Klein Duimpie
Arabic: عُقْلَة الإِصْبَعِ m (ʕuqla(t) al-ʔiṣbaʕi)
Aragonese: Pulgaret m
Basque: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian:
Traditional: Хло́пчык як па́льчык m (Xlópčyk jak pálʹčyk), Мало́е Пальчанё́ n (Malóje Palʹčanjó)
Breton: Meudig (br) m
Bulgarian: Малечко Палечко n (Malečko Palečko)
Catalan: Polzet m
Czech: Paleček m
Dutch: Klein Duimpje (nl) n
Erzya: Пелькине (Peľkińe)
Esperanto: Dikfingrulo
Finnish: Peukaloinen
French: Tom Pouce (fr) m, Petit Poucet (fr) m
Galician: Polgariño (gl) m
German: Däumling (de) m
Greek: Κοντορεβιθούλης m (Kontorevithoúlis)
Hungarian: Hüvelyk Matyi (hu), Babszem Jankó
Italian: Pollicino m
Japanese: 親指トム (おやゆびトム, oyayubi Tomu)
Kazakh: Шынашақ (Şynaşaq)
Persian: تام انگشتی (tâm angošti), تام بندانگشتی (tâm bandângošti)
Polish: Tomcio Paluch m, Paluszek m
Portuguese: (Portugal) Polegarzinho m, (Brazil) Pequeno Polegar m
Romanian: Tom Degețel m
Russian: Ма́льчик-с-па́льчик (ru) m (Málʹčik-s-pálʹčik)
Spanish: Pulgarcito m
Swedish: Tummeliten c
Turkish: erkenek, erkecel, erkecey, ernek (tr), irkenek, irkeyel
Welsh: Bawd Bach m
West Frisian: Tomke m

Tom Thumb (plural Tom Thumbs)

(Australia) A type of diminutive simple firecracker that explodes to give a loud noise.