fa

fa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Persian.

• fah

From Latin famuli, from the first word of the fourth line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn which solfège was based on because its lines started on each note of the scale successively.

• IPA^(key): /fɑ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː

fa (plural fas)

1. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing the Arrival of an Irish Gentleman, with very extraordinary Adventures which ensued at the Inn”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book X, pages 11–12:

     And now Mrs. Waters (for we muſt confeſs ſhe was in the ſame Bed) being, I ſuppoſe, awakened from her Sleep, and ſeeing two Men fighting in her Bed-chamber, began to ſcream in the moſt violent Manner, crying out Murder! Robbery! and more frequently Rape! which laſt, ſome, perhaps, may wonder ſhe ſhould mention, who do not conſider that theſe Words of Exclamation are uſed by Ladies in a Fright, as Fa, la, la, ra, da, &c. are in Muſic, only as the Vehicles of Sound, and without any fixed Ideas.

sol-fa

• AF, af

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈfa]
• Rhymes: -a

fa m (plural fas)

1. (music) fa (fourth note of diatonic scale)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fa

1. third-person singular present indicative of fer

fa

1. ago

   fa molts anys...

   many years ago...

fa

1. (dialectal) a particle used in some dialects to emphasize a negative sentence

   Fa que no es veu!

   it’s obvious!

   (literally, “it does that it's not seen!”)

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fa (infinitive kufá)

1. to die

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -fera

• Nominal derivations:
  • imfa (“death”)

fa

1. Abbreviation of firma.

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Borrowed from Latin fa.

• IPA^(key): /faː/

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• Hyphenation: fa
• Rhymes: -aː

fa m (plural fa's, diminutive faatje n)

1. (music) fa (fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) musical note)
2. (music) F (the musical clef or key)

• fasleutel

• IPA^(key): /fa/

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fa m (plural fa)

1. (music) fa, the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note 'F'

• clef de fa

• “fa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

fa m (plural fas)

1. (music) fa (musical note)
2. (music) F (the musical note or key)

• (musical notes) nota musical; dó, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si ^{(Category: gl:Music)}

fa

1. Romanization of 𐍆𐌰

• IPA^(key): /fa/, [fʷa]

fa

1. to drink

From Proto-Uralic *puwe. Cognates include Finnish puu.[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒ]

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• Rhymes: -fɒ

fa (countable and uncountable, plural fák)

1. tree (large woody plant)

   Meronyms: rügy, hajtás, vessző, gally, ág, törzs, gyökér, levél, lomb, korona, termés, gyümölcs

2. wood (substance beneath the bark of the trunk or branches of a tree)
3. (graph theory) tree (connected graph with no cycles)
4. (computing theory) tree (recursive data structure)
5. (attributive) wooden (made of wood)

• (tree, wood): fa in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (“fa”, a syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth note of a major scale; alternative form of fá): fa in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• fa in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

• fá, ba, badh, budh

fa (triggers h-prothesis)

1. Obsolete form of ba (“was”) (past affirmative and relative of is).
   • 2014 [1628–1634], Geoffrey Keating, edited by Beatrix Färber, David Comyn, Patrick S. Dinneen, Foras Feasa ar Éirinn‎, CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts:

     gurab Alba fá hainm don chrích sin

     that that country’s name was Scotland

   • 1939 [c. 13th century], “Bean ós mhnáibh cáich Cailleach Dé”, in Lambert McKenna, editor, Aithdioghluim Dána‎, Dublin:

     Is leomhan Ó mBriun an bhean / siur ga seoladh [ar] a son, / síol na n-ealta fa díon damh, / síol glan nach ba creachta ar gcrodh.

     A lion-hero of the Í Bhriuin is this lady, a sister that guides them by her words; noble the offspring of that flock, my guardians (ensuring) that all I own be safe from harrying.

     (literally, “(…) the seed of the flock which was protection to me, noble seed (…)”)

fa (plus dative, triggers lenition)

1. Obsolete form of faoi (“under”).
2. Obsolete form of um (“about, concerning”).

In the meaning about it was followed by a noun in accusative.

• fa', fai (imperative form only)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa/^*
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: fà
• Unlike for the musical note below, this word always triggers syntactic gemination. Hence for example fa freddo (“it's cold”, literally “it makes cold”) is pronounced /ˈfa‿fˈfreddo/.

fa

1. inflection of fare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

fa

1. ago

   Synonym: prima

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa/^°
• IPA^(key): (traditional) /ˈfa/^*
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: fà
• Unlike for the verb form and derived adverb, this word (and other terms for musical notes) do not trigger syntactic gemination in modern usage, although they did traditionally. Hence fa sol la (“fa sol la”) is now pronounced /ˈfa ˈsɔl ˈla/, but traditionally /ˈfa‿sˈsɔl ˈla/.

fa m (invariable)

1. (music) fa (fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) musical note)
2. F (musical note or key)

fa

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふぁ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ファ

fa (intensive aorist yettfay, aorist ifa, preterite ifa, negative preterite ifa)

1. to yawn

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fá

1. to die

fa m (invariable)

1. (music) fa, the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note 'F'.

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

fa

1. to die

fa (fa⁵／fa⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄈㄚ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 𠲎

fa

1. Nonstandard spelling of fā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of fá.
3. Nonstandard spelling of fǎ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of fà.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

From Old Irish fáth, from Proto-Celtic *wātus (“inspired utterance”) (compare Welsh gwawd (“song, praise, poetry”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t-.

fa m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. reason, cause

• oyr

• cre'n fa
• gyn fa gyn oyr

From the oblique stem of Old English ġefāh.

fa (plural fas)

1. Alternative form of fo

From Old English fā, variant of fāh.

fa

1. Alternative form of fo

• IPA^(key): /fa/
• Rhymes: -a

fa

1. third-person singular present indicative of fà

From Proto-Polynesian *fa, from Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

fa

1. four

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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fa m (plural fas)

1. (Jersey) suit (clothing)

• suit

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fá

1. to die

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Latin famuli, from the first word of the fourth line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn on which solfège was based because its lines started on each note of the scale successively. Through Italian.

• IPA^(key): /fɑː/

fa m (definite singular fa-en, indefinite plural fa-ar, definite plural fa-ane)

1. (music) fa, a syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale.

• (scale of solfège): do, re, mi, fa, sol or so, la, ti, do

• “fa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *fą̄han, from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną. Cognates include Old English fōn, Old Saxon fāhan and Old Dutch fān.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaː/

fā

1. (transitive) to catch

• Saterland Frisian: fange
• West Frisian: fange

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

• fá, ba, bá

Apparently a derivative of some form of the copula is that is from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.

• IPA^(key): [va]

fa (triggers lenition)

1. (in indirect interrogative clauses) or
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 23^b32

     imba bás ba bethu

     whether it be death or life

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 90^c19

     Ní fetar indam·ṡoírfad Día fa nacc.

     I do not know whether God would deliver me or not.

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 91^c1

     No scrútain-se, in tan no mbíinn isnaib fochaidib, dús in retarscar cairde ṅDǽ ⁊ a remcaissiu, ⁊ ní tucus-sa insin, in ru·etarscar fa naic.

     I used to consider, when I was in the tribulations, [to see] whether the covenant of God and his providence had departed, and I didn't understand [that,] whether it had departed or not.

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 12^b7

     cosmail leiss cacha orr im cara fá æscare

     alike to him whichever he may slay, whether friend or foe

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 fa, ba, fo”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Old Norse fá, from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną.

fā

1. to seize, take
2. to get, receive

• Swedish: få

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fá

1. to die

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /fa/

fa

1. Doric form of wha (“who”)

   Fa's this quine, en?

   Who's this girl, then?

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fá (infinitive kufá)

1. to die

• rufu

From Proto-Bantu *-páa.

fa

1. to give

From Proto-Polynesian *fa, from Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

fa

1. four

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fá

1. to die

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa/ [ˈfa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: fa

fa m (plural fa)

1. fa (fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) musical note)

fa

1. (Argentina) ew, phew (expression of disgust)

   Synonyms: puaj, guácala

• “fa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

fa

1. how

fa

1. as soon as

Short for a phrase such as fa fu yu? or fa a e go?

fa?

1. hi; how are you?; how's it going?

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

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-fa (infinitive kufa)

1. to die

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fa

2. to stop, come to an end

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -fia
  • Causative: -fisha (“murder”)
  • Passive: -fiwa (“mourn, be bereaved”)

• Nominal derivations:
  • kifa (“death”)
  • mafa (“cemetery”)

• -fu (“dead”)
• kifo (“death”)
• mfu (“dead person”)
• ufu (“death”)

• -ua (“kill”)

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fá

1. (intransitive) to die

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

fa (Tifinagh spelling ⴼⴰ)

1. (intransitive) to yawn

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

fa

1. to die

From Italian fa

• IPA^(key): /fa/

fa (definite accusative fayı, plural falar)

1. (music) fa (fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) musical note)
2. F (musical note or key)

From Proto-Polynesian *fa, from Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

fa

1. four

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

fa

1. to die

fa m (invariable)

1. (music) fa (fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) musical note)
2. F (musical note or key)

fa

1. as, like

fa

1. by (indicating an agent)

fa

1. or

   win edeng fa iunge ― two days or three

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

From Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

fa

1. four

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

• IPA^(key): [fá]

-fá

1. (intransitive) to die

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• umfi

• IPA^(key): /fà/

fà

1. (transitive, intransitive) to pull

   mo fa aṣọ ― I pulled the clothes

2. (transitive) to suck
3. (intransitive) to subside, to reduce

   eéwó t'ó wú ti fà ― The boil that was swollen has reduced

4. to draw, to sketch

   ó fa ìlà sórí ìwé ― He drew a line on the piece of paper

5. to become sluggish

   ọ̀lẹ́ fà tìì lẹ́nu iṣẹ́ ― The lazy person was sluggish at work

6. to be elastic, to be mucilaginous (as a soup or stew), to draw

   Synonym: yọ̀

   ọbẹ̀ ewédú náàá fà ― This ewedu soup is mucilaginous

7. (intransitive) to crawl

   bí ìgbín fà, ìkarahun á tẹ̀lé e ― When the snail crawls its shell shall follow it

8. (transitive) to cause, to bring about

   ìyà púpọ̀ ni ó fa ẹkún ― Too much suffering is the cause of weeping

9. (transitive) to long for

   ọkàn àwọn ọmọ́ fà mí ― I longed for those children

• fa before a direct object

• IPA^(key): /fá/

fá

1. (transitive) to scrape or wipe off

   alápatàá fá awọ náà ― The butcher wiped off the skin

2. (transitive) to shave

   mo fá irun abíyá ― I shaved my armpit hair

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

IPA^(key): /fá/

-fá

1. (intransitive) to die