The Smurfs

The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs in French) are a fictional race of small blue creatures who live in a forest somewhere in Europe. The Belgian cartoonist Peyo introduced Smurfs to the world, but English-speakers perhaps know them best through the animated television series from Hanna-Barbera Productions.

The Smurfs in other languages

• Arabic: Sanafer سنافر (singular: Sanfur سنفور)
• Basque: Pottokiak (singular: pottoki), after the Basque pony race pottoka. Early editions used pitufoak, straight from Spanish.
• Catalan: Barrufets (singular: barrufet)
• Chinese: Lan jing ling (藍精靈)
• Croatian: Štrumpfovi (singular: Štrumpf)
• Czech: Šmoulové (singular: Šmoula), name based on their light blue colour.
• Danish: Smølferne (singular: en Smølf)
• Dutch: Smurfen (singular: Smurf)
• Finnish: Smurffit (singular: Smurffi)
• French: Schtroumpfs (singular: Schtroumpf)
• German: Schlümpfe (singular: Schlumpf)
• Greek: Stroumfakia Στρουμφάκια (singular: Stroumf/Stroumfaki Στρουμφ/Στρουμφάκι)
• Hebrew: Dardasim דרדסים (singular: Dardas דרדס). The real meaning of the word is a small child
• Hungarian: Törpök (singular: Törp)
• Icelandic: Strumpar (singular: Strumpur)
• Italian: Puffi (singular: Puffo), the name has been reinvented from scratch because in Italian language the "schtroumpf" or (in Italian spelling strumpf) reminds speakers of the Italian word "stronzo", literally meaning 'piece of excrement'. Note that the dialect word 'strunz' is even closer to 'strumpf'. The fantasy name "Puffi" is derived from word "buffi" (singular: buffo, as in opera buffa) a word meaning at same time "funny" and "strange".
• Japanese: ???? (Sumaafu)
• Korean:Seumeopeu ???
• Polish: Smerfy (singular: Smerf)
• Portuguese Estrumpfes (singular: Estrumpfe), (Brazil knows them as Smurfs)
• Romanian Ştrumfi (singular: Ştrumf)
• Serbian: Štrumpfovi ?????????? (singular: Štrumpf ???????)
• Slovak: Šmolkovia (singular: Šmolko)
• Slovenian: Smrkci (singular: Smrkec)
• Spanish: Pitufos (singular: Pitufo; later used as a slang word for 'local cop' in Spain, after their blue uniforms). In an early time, they were published by the magazine TBO under the name of tebeítos.
• Swedish: Smurfar(na) (singular: smurf)
• Turkish: Şirinler (singular: Şirin)

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