ful

ful

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Fula.

Borrowed from Fula 𞤊𞤵𞤤𞤬𞤵𞤤𞤣𞤫.

ful (invariable)

1. (relational) of Fula

ful m (uncountable)

1. Fula

• fulbe

From Old Norse fúll, from Proto-Germanic *fūlaz, cognate with Swedish ful, English foul, German faul, Dutch vuil.

• IPA^(key): /fuːˀl/, [ˈfuˀl]
• Homophone: fugl

ful (neuter fult, plural and definite singular attributive fule)

1. (dated) nasty, ugly

From Arabic فُول (fūl).

• IPA^(key): /fuːl/

ful m (collective, singulative fula, paucal fuliet)

1. broad bean, broad beans

• fażola

From Old English full, from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.

• fol, full, vol, vul

ful

1. very; much; to a great extent
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41:

     And I seide, "Ser, in his tyme maister Ioon Wiclef was holden of ful many men the grettis clerk that thei knewen lyuynge vpon erthe. And therwith he was named, as I gesse worthili, a passing reuli man and an innocent in al his lyuynge. […]

     And I said, "Sir, in his time master John Wycliffe was held by very many men the greatest clerk that they knew living upon earth. And with this he was named, as I believe worthily, an excellent ruly and innocent man in all his living. […]

2. full
   • ca. 1384, John Wycliffe, Wycliffe Bible (translation from the Vulgate), Genesis 25:8

     and failynge he was deed in a good elde, and of greet age, and ful of dayes, and he was gaderyd to his puple.

     and failing he was dead in a good old [age], and of great age, and full of days, and he was gathered to his people.

• English: full
• Scots: fou, full
• Yola: vull

• “ful, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

ful

1. Alternative form of fulle

From Old Norse fúll, from Proto-Germanic *fūlaz.

• IPA^(key): /fʉːl/
• Rhymes: -ʉːl
• Homophone: fugl

ful (masculine and feminine ful, neuter fult, definite singular and plural fule, comparative fulere, indefinite superlative fulest, definite superlative fuleste)

1. clever, sly

• “ful” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “ful” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Old Norse fúll, from Proto-Germanic *fūlaz.

ful (neuter fult, definite singular and plural fule, comparative fulare, indefinite superlative fulast, definite superlative fulaste)

1. clever, sly

• “ful” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *full.

• IPA^(key): /ful/

ful

1. Alternative form of full

From Proto-West Germanic *fūl.

• IPA^(key): /fuːl/

fūl

1. foul (dirty, stinking, vile, corrupt)

• fūlnes

• Middle English: foul
  • English: foul
  • Scots: foul

From Proto-West Germanic *full.

ful

1. full

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: fol

• West Frisian: fol

• IPA^(key): [ful]

·ful

1. third-person singular present subjunctive prototonic of fo·loing

• connach·ḟul

• full

From Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.

ful

1. full

• fullian

• Low German: vull

ful

1. foul, rotten, putrid
2. lazy, shiftless, indolent, slothful

• IPA^(key): /ful/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ul
• Syllabification: ful

Borrowed from English full.

• full

ful (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (colloquial) full

ful m inan

1. (poker) full house
2. (colloquial) stout, porter (beer with mid-high hop and alcohol levels)
3. (colloquial) full house (situation in which a place is filled with people to its maximum capacity)

   Synonym: komplet

ful

1. (colloquial) full

Borrowed from Arabic فُول (fūl).

ful m inan

1. type of heavily spiced Egyptian fava bean paste (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

• ful in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ful in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English full.

ful n (plural fuluri)

1. (poker) full house

• IPA^(key): /fʊl/
• Hyphenation: ful
• Rhymes: -ʊl

From Old Frisian full, from Proto-West Germanic *full. Cognates include West Frisian fol and German voll.

ful (masculine fullen, feminine, plural or definite fulle, comparative fuller, superlative fulst)

1. full

• (antonym(s) of “full”): loos

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ful

1. Unstressed form of fúul

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “ful”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
• Marron C. Fort (2015) “fúul”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈful/ [ˈful]
• Rhymes: -ul
• Syllabification: ful

ful (invariable)

1. (slang) cheap, fake

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

From Old Norse fúll, from Proto-Germanic *fūlaz. Compare English foul, Dutch vuil, German faul.

• (Sweden) IPA^(key): /fʉːl/

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• Rhymes: -ʉːl

ful (comparative fulare, superlative fulast)

1. ugly; of displeasing appearance

   Det var den fulaste unge jag någonsin sett.

   That's the ugliest kid I've ever seen.

2. dirty, bad; something contradictory to norms and rules

   Larsson gjorde en riktigt ful tackling.

   Larsson pulled off a really dirty tackle.

3. prefix indicating a state of low or poor quality: an ironic opposite of fin (“fine, elegant”).
   • 2000, Mikael Niemi, Populärmusik från Vittula p. 35; English translation by Laurie Thompson: Popular Music from Vittula (2003), p. 36.

     Hukande tassade han fram till predikstolen, en skygg liten gosse med fulsnaggat hår.

     Shoulders hunched, he tip-toed toward the pulpit, a bashful little boy with an awful haircut.

• ful-
• ful fisk
• ful gubbe
• ful som stryk
• fuling
• fulöl
• fulsnygg

• ful in Svensk ordbok.

• Ulf, ulf

From English fool.

ful

1. fool

ful (nominative plural fuls)

1. fullness