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Definitions and meaning of fa

fa

Alternative forms

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɑ/
Rhymes: -ɑː

Noun

fa (plural fas)

(music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth note of a major scale.
- 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 bedchamber, 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.

Translations

Anagrams

AF, af

Catalan

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfa/
Rhymes: -a

Etymology 1

Noun

fa m (plural fas)

(music) fa (fourth note of diatonic scale)

Etymology 2

From the Catalan verb fer (“to do”).

Verb

third-person singular present indicative form of fer

Preposition

Interjection

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

Chichewa

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

Verb

-fa (infinitive kufá)

to die

Derived terms

Verbal derivations:
- Applicative: -fera

Nominal derivations:
- imfa (“death”)

Czech

Noun

Abbreviation of firma.

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fa/

Noun

fa m (plural fa)

(music) fa, the note 'F'.

Galician

Noun

fa m (plural fas)

(music) fa (musical note)
(music) F (the musical note or key)

Gothic

Romanization

Romanization of 𐍆𐌰

Hadza

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fa/, [fʷa]

Verb

to drink

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *puwe. Cognates include Finnish puu.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ ˈfɒ]
Rhymes: -fɒ

Noun

fa (plural fák)

tree (large woody plant)
wood (substance beneath the bark of the trunk or branches of a tree)
(graph theory) tree (connected graph with no cycles)
(computing theory) tree (recursive data structure)
(attributive) wooden (made of wood)

Declension

Derived terms

(Expressions):

fából vaskarika
nem esik messze az alma a fájától
nem látja a fától az erdőt

References

Italian

Alternative forms

(imperative form): fa', fai

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈfa]
Hyphenation: fà
Rhymes: -a

Adverb

Synonyms

prima

Noun

fa m (invariable)

(music) fa (musical note)
F (musical note or key)

Verb

third-person singular indicative present of fare
second-person singular imperative of fare

Japanese

Romanization

Rōmaji transcription of ふぁ
Rōmaji transcription of ファ

Kabyle

Verb

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

to yawn

Lala (South Africa)

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

Verb

-fá

to die

Latvian

Noun

fa m (invariable)

(music) fa, the note 'F'.

Luganda

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

Verb

to die

Mandarin

Romanization

fa (Zhuyin ˙ㄈㄚ)

Pinyin transcription of 𠲎

Nonstandard spelling of fā.
Nonstandard spelling of fá.
Nonstandard spelling of fǎ.
Nonstandard spelling of fà.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Manx

Etymology

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

Noun

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

reason, cause

Synonyms

Derived terms

cre'n fa
gyn fa gyn oyr

Mutation

Middle English

Etymology 1

From the oblique stem of Old English ġefāh.

Noun

fa (plural fas)

Alternative form of fo

Etymology 2

From Old English fā, variant of fāh.

Adjective

Alternative form of fo

Niuean

Etymology

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.

Numeral

four

Norman

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

fa m (plural fas)

(Jersey) suit (clothing)

Synonyms

suit

Northern Ndebele

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

Verb

-fá

to die

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɑː/

Noun

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

(music) fa, a syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.

Coordinate terms

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

References

“fa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Novial

Verb

fa (past fad, active participle fant, passive participle fat)

make; do
- 1928, Otto Jespersen, An International Language, page 77
  On fa butre fro milke.
  One makes butter from milk.

Old Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfaː/

Verb

fā

(transitive) to catch

Descendants

West Frisian: fange

References

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

Old Swedish

Etymology

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

Verb

fā

to seize, take
to get, receive

Conjugation

Descendants

Swedish: få

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

Verb

-fá

to die

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Scots

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fa/

Pronoun

Doric form of wha (“who”)

Shona

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

Verb

-fá (infinitive kufá)

to die

Derived terms

rufu

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-páa.

Verb

to give

South Marquesan

Etymology

Numeral

four

Southern Ndebele

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

Verb

-fá

to die

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fa/

Noun

fa m (plural fa)

fa (musical note)

Derived terms

Interjection

(Argentina) ew, phew (expression of disgust)
Synonyms: puaj, guácala

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

Verb

-fa (infinitive kufa)

to die
to stop, come to an end

Conjugation

Derived terms

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

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

Related terms

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

Swazi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

Verb

-fá

(intransitive) to die

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Tsonga

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

Verb

to die

Tuvaluan

Etymology

Numeral

four

Venda

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

Verb

to die

Venetian

Noun

fa m (invariable)

(music) fa (musical note)
F (musical note or key)

Adverb

as, like

Volapük

Preposition

by (indicating an agent)

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /foː/, /fɒː/, /fɑː/

Rhymes: -óː

Etymology 1

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

Verb

fa (preterite fekk or fikk, plural fing, supine fatt or faije)

To receive, obtain.
To have children.
To give, hand.
(reflexive, intransitive) To convalesce.
(auxiliary verb) May.

Derived terms

anfått
seinfatt

Etymology 2

From Old Norse fár, from Proto-Germanic *fawaz.

Adjective

Few.

Derived terms

famönnes
fang
fangfor
faräjj
faräjjes
feengt
fått

Wuvulu-Aua

Etymology

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.

Numeral

four

Xhosa

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [fá]

Verb

-fá

(intransitive) to die

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

umfi

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fá/

Verb

-fá

(intransitive) to die

Inflection

Derived terms

References

C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “fa”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “fa (imper. yifa, 6.3)”

Source: wiktionary.org

a musical note.
(source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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fa

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Translations

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Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Etymology 2

Verb

Preposition

Interjection

Chichewa

Etymology

Verb

Derived terms

Czech

Noun

French

Pronunciation

Noun

Further reading

Galician

Noun

See also

Gothic

Romanization

Hadza

Pronunciation

Verb

Hungarian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

References

Italian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Adverb

Synonyms

Noun

Verb

Japanese

Romanization

Kabyle

Verb

Lala (South Africa)

Etymology

Verb

Latvian

Noun

Luganda

Etymology

Verb

Mandarin

Romanization

Usage notes

Manx

Etymology

Noun

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation

Middle English

Etymology 1

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