farë

See also: fare, faré, fâre, and fārè

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *pʰarā, from Proto-Indo-European *sporáh₂ < *sper- (“to spread out”). Compare Ancient Greek σπόρος (spóros, “seed”).[1][2][3] Interpreting farë (“affinity, kind”) as a different word from farë (“seed", semen”), the former is considered by some as a loanword from Lombardic fara (“military clan”).[3]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfaɾ(ə)/, [faːɹ]

Noun

farë f (plural fara, definite fara, definite plural farat)

  1. seed
  2. sperm, semen
  3. descendants, lineage, progeny, offspring

Declension
Declension of farë
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative farë fara fara farat
accusative farën
dative fare farave farës faravet
ablative farash

Synonyms

Derived terms

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “farë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 93
  2. Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 223.
  3. Adam Hyllested, Brian D. Joseph (2022) “Albanian”, in Thomas Olander, editor, The Indo-European Language Family : A Phylogenetic Perspective, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 230
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