فلس

Arabic

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Aramaic פֵילַס (pilas) / פלס (polləs) / ܦܠܣ / פּוּלְסָא (puləsā) / ܦܘܽܠܣܴܐ (puləsā), from Ancient Greek φόλλις (phóllis), from Latin follis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fils/
  • IPA(key): /fuls/
  • IPA(key): /fals/

Noun

فِلْس or فُلْس or فَلْس • (fils or fuls or fals) m (plural فُلُوس (fulūs) or أَفْلُس (ʔaflus))

  1. a small-denomination coin, penny
  2. (colloquial, in the plural) money
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Egyptian Arabic: فلوس (flūs)
  • Gulf Arabic: فلوس (flūs), فلس (fils)
  • Hijazi Arabic: فلوس (fulūs, filūs)
  • Maltese: flus
  • Moroccan Arabic: فلوس (flūs), فلس (fals)
  • English: fils, fals
  • Dutch: floes
  • French: flouze
  • Indonesian: fulus
  • Swahili: fulusi
  • Swedish: flos
  • Ottoman Turkish: فلس (fels)
  • Turkish: fülus

Etymology 2

Denominal verb of فِلْس (fils).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fa.la.sa/

Verb

فَلَّسَ • (fallasa) II, non-past يُفَلِّسُ‎ (yufallisu)

  1. to bankrupt, to make broke, to ruin, to render out of pennies
  2. to cut the vines in straight line (because not every one who pruned the vines had the capacity to do so)
    • Dozy s.v. from Auw. man. from Leiden, 121 r missing in the edition
      c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802IA, page 509:
      الخطيب ابن حَجّاجٍ وقد اعتاد الكسّاحون عندنا ان يكون قطع القضبان من الكروم قطعا معتدلا بدون تحريف فيه ويسمونه المُفَلَّسْ وهو اغرب فى صناعتهم لانهم عندهم ليس كل الناس يقدر عليه
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φολίς (pholís).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fals/

Noun

فَلْس • (fals) m (plural فُلُوس (fulūs))

  1. scale of a fish
Declension
Descendants

References

  • pls”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “فلس”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 278
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 192
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “فلس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 369
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “فلس”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 629–630
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “فلس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2440
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فلس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 979–980

Hijazi Arabic

Root
ف ل س
1 term

Etymology 1

From Arabic فَلَّسَ (fallasa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fal.las/

Verb

فَلَّس • (fallas) II (non-past يِفَلِّس (yifallis))

  1. to go broke, to become bankrupt.
Conjugation
    Conjugation of فلس (fallas)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m فلست (fallast) فلست (fallast) فلس (fallas) فلسنا (fallasna) فلستوا (fallastu) فلسوا (fallasu)
f فلستي (fallasti) فلست (fallasat)
non-past m أفلس (ʔafallis) تفلس (tifallis) يفلس (yifallis) نفلس (nifallis) تفلسوا (tifallisu) يفلسوا (yifallisu)
f تفلسي (tifallisi) تفلس (tifallis)
imperative m فلس (fallis) فلسوا (fallisu)
f فلسي (fallisi)

Etymology 2

From Arabic فِلْس (fils).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fils/, [fɪls]

Noun

فلس • (fils) m (plural فِلوس (filūs) or فُلوس (fulūs))

  1. a small-denomination coin, penny
  2. a subdivision of currency used in some Arab countries.
Usage notes

The plural is used mainly to mean "money".

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Arabic فَلْس (fals, a kind of coin).

Noun

فلس • (fels) (plural فلوس)

  1. mite, very small coin worth about the twentieth part of a penny sterling

Etymology 2

From Arabic فَلْس (fals, scale).

Noun

فلس • (fels) (plural فلوس)

  1. scale of a fish, a small, flat and hard piece of keratin
  2. any scale-like thing, as a spangle, etc.
  3. small boss on a compound astrolabe

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic فَلْس (fals), from Ancient Greek φολίς (pholís).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? fals
Dari reading? fals
Iranian reading? fals
Tajik reading? fals

Noun

Dari فلس
Iranian Persian
Tajik фалс

فلس • (fals) (plural فلس‌ها (fals-hâ))

  1. flake, lamination, scale
    • The Bible, Acts 9:18:
      در ساعت از چشمان او چیزی مثل فلس افتاده، بینایی یافت و برخاسته، تعمید گرفت
      At that instant something like a scale fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized
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