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Definitions and meaning of far

far

Etymology 1

From Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɑː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɑɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Adjective

far (comparative farther or further, superlative farthest or furthest or farthermost or furthermost)

1. Distant; remote in space.
2. Remote in time.

   the far future

3. Long. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. More remote of two.

5. Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.
6. Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
7. (programming, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.

Synonyms

• (remote in space): distant, far; see also Thesaurus:distant

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "remote in space"): close, near; see also Thesaurus:near

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

far (comparative farther or further, superlative farthest or furthest)

1. To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.

2. Very much; by a great amount.

Translations

Verb

far (third-person singular simple present fars, present participle farring, simple past and past participle farred)

1. (transitive, rare) To send far away.

Etymology 2

From Latin far. Doublet of farro.

Noun

far (uncountable)

2. Spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta), especially in the context of Roman use of it.

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

far (plural fars)

1. (UK, dialect) A litter of piglets; a farrow.

Anagrams

• 'arf, AFR, AFr., ARF, Afr., FRA, Fra, RAF, RFA, arf, fra

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Pharus.

Noun

far m

1. lighthouse

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin pharus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈfar]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

Noun

far m (plural fars)

1. lighthouse
2. headlight

Related terms

• farola

Further reading

• “far” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “far”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “far” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “far” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cimbrian

Noun

far ?

1. fern

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dalmatian

Verb

far

1. Alternative form of facro

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑː/, [fɑ̈ː]
• Rhymes: -aːr

Noun

far c (singular definite faren, plural indefinite fædre)

1. father, dad

Inflection

Synonyms

• fader

Related terms

• mor, moder
• bror, søster, søskende
• søn, datter

Further reading

• “far” in Den Danske Ordbog

Esperanto

Etymology

Back-formation from fari (“to do, to make”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [far]
• Audio:
• Hyphenation: far

Preposition

far

1. (neologism) by

   La libro de Johano far Ŝekspiro

   John's book by Shakespeare

   regado de la popolo, far la popolo, kaj por la popolo

   government of the people, by the people, and for the people

   Synonyms: de, fare de

Usage notes

Unofficial. The most common innovative preposition, far is used for some of the functions of the preposition de "of, from, by", which some authors feel is overworked. Useful to distinguish, for example, the owner of a book (de) from the author (far).

References

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse far.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛaːɹ/,Fugloy dialect: IPA^(key): [fɛːɹ]
• Rhymes: -ɛaːɹ
• Homophone: fær

Noun

far n (genitive singular fars, plural før)

1. drive, ride, tour
2. vessel
3. trace, sign

Declension

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faʁ/

Noun

far m (plural fars)

1. a traditional Breton cake

   Synonym: far breton

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *ponče (“tail”). Older hypotheses have attempted to derive far from Proto-Uralic *pure- (“back, rear”) or Proto-Finno-Ugric *perä (“back, rear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒr]
• Rhymes: -ɒr

Noun

far (plural farok)

1. buttock, posterior

   Synonyms: fenék, ülep, hátsó, segg

2. stern (ship)
3. tail, rear (vehicle)

Declension

Derived terms

• farol
• farú

References

Further reading

• far 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

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse fǫr (“journey”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faːr/
• Rhymes: -aːr

Noun

far n (genitive singular fars, nominative plural för)

1. passage, ride

2. imprint, trace
3. character, personality

Declension

Synonyms

• flutningur
• merki

Derived terms

• farfugl
• fá far (to get a ride, to get a lift)
• gera sér far um
• hjakka í sama farinu
• í fari hans
• sækja í sama farið

See also

• skutl
• skutla

Anagrams

• raf

Italian

Verb

far (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of fare

Anagrams

• fra

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fars (“flour, grain”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰars-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“spike, prickle”); compare Welsh bara (“bread”), English barley, Serbo-Croatian brȁšno (“flour”), Albanian bar (“grass”), Ancient Greek Φηρῶν (Phērôn, “plant deity”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /far/, [fär]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /far/, [fär]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfar.r/, [ˈfärː] (before a vowel)

The nominative-accusative singular form scans as a long syllable in Ovid (cited below). Therefore, some sources mark the vowel in this form as long (fār), but an alternative explanation is that despite being spelled with a single letter r, this word form was pronounced with the underlying geminate /rr/ of the stem when the following word started with a vowel.

Noun

far n (genitive farris); third declension

1. farro, a type of hulled wheat. (Most likely emmer (Triticum dicoccum or Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccon) but often mistranslated as spelt (Triticum spelta))
   • ― Fay Glinister, “Festus and Ritual Foodstuffs” p. 220
2. coarse meal; grits

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Franco-Provençal: far
• Galician: farelo
• Italian: farro
  • → English: farro
• Portuguese: farelo
• Sicilian: farru
• → English: far

References

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faːr/
• Rhymes: -aːr

Etymology 1

From Arabic فَأْر (faʔr, “mouse”).

Noun

far m (plural firien or fariet, feminine fara)

1. rat

   Synonym: ġurdien

2. Y-shaped frame of a slingshot

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Arabic فارَ (fāra).

Verb

far (imperfect jfur, verbal noun fawran)

1. to overflow

Conjugation

Middle English

Noun

far

1. Alternative form of fare

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Compare longer version fader.

Noun

far m (definite singular faren, indefinite plural fedre, definite plural fedrene)

1. a father

Synonyms

• pappa
• fader

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Kven: faari

See also

• mor, mamma
• bror, søster, søsken
• sønn, datter

Etymology 2

Verb

far

1. imperative of fare

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑːr/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Compare longer version fader.

Noun

far m (definite singular faren, indefinite plural fedrar, definite plural fedrane)

1. father

Inflection

Synonyms

• pappa
• fader

Derived terms

Related terms

• mor, mamma
• bror, syster, sysken
• son, dotter

Etymology 2

From Old Norse far, from Proto-Germanic *farą.

Noun

far n (definite singular faret, indefinite plural far, definite plural fara)

1. trace, track

Synonyms

• spor n
• laup n

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Verb

far

1. imperative of fara

References

• “far” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa/

Etymology 1

Noun

far m (plural fars)

1. (nautical) lighthouse

Etymology 2

Verb

far

1. Alternative form of faire

Old Irish

Determiner

far

1. Alternative form of for

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *farą.

Noun

far n (genitive fars, plural fǫr)

1. a means of passage
2. passage
3. trace, print, track
4. life, conduct, behaviour
5. state, condition

Declension

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

far

1. second-person singular imperative active of fara

References

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic‎^[2], Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• faire, fare

Etymology

From Latin facere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /far/

Verb

far

1. to do
   • c. 1130, Jaufre Rudel, canso:

Descendants

• Occitan: far, fer, faire

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• ᚠᛆᚱ

Etymology

From (eastern) Old Norse *fāʀ (Old West Norse fær), from Proto-Germanic *fahaz.

Noun

fār n

1. sheep

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: får

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Pharus, French phare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /far/
• Rhymes: -ar

Noun

far n (plural faruri)

1. lighthouse
2. (figuratively) beacon
3. car headlight

Declension

Romansch

Alternative forms

• fer (Puter)

Etymology

From Latin faciō, facere.

Verb

far

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) to do, make

Conjugation

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

Possibly from Middle Irish i mbaile (“where”) from Old Irish baile (“place”) (with later early modern forms like a bhail a bhfuil, bhal a bhfuil) or from Old Irish fail (“where”), perhaps influenced by mar (“as, like”), related to Irish mar (“where”).

Adverb

far

1. where (relative/non-interrogative)

   Bha e cunnartach far an robh am balach ag iasgach. ― It was dangerous where the boy was fishing.

References

• R. A. Breatnach (1973) “The relative adverb mar a”, in Celtica, volume 10, pages 167–170: “As regards Sc. far a, all I can suggest is that the initial f- is possibly to be referred to the /v-/ variants instanced among the M.Ir. forms of baile i listed above. But fail may be a more likely influence;”
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 fail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 baile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “? 1 bail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Etymology 2

Clipping of de bhàrr

Alternative forms

• bhàrr

Preposition

far (+ genitive)

1. (down) from, off

   thuit e far eich ― he fell off a horse

Spanish

Verb

far (first-person singular present fo, first-person singular preterite fe, past participle fado)

1. Obsolete spelling of hacer

Further reading

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

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑːr/

Etymology 1

Short for fader, from Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

Noun

far c

1. father

Declension

Derived terms

References

• far in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• far in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

far

1. inflection of fara:
   1. imperative
   2. present indicative

Etymology 3

Short for farled.

Noun

far n

1. (nautical) fairway

Anagrams

• FRA, arf, fra.

Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French phare.

Noun

far (definite accusative farı, plural farlar)

1. headlight

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French fard.

Noun

far (definite accusative farı, plural farlar)

1. eye shadow

Declension

Synonyms

• (eye shadow): göz farı

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin facere.

Verb

far

1. (transitive) to do, to make; to act, operate
2. (transitive) to study

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [faɾ]

Noun

far (nominative plural fars)

1. lighthouse

Declension

See also

• laramamalet
• lefilamalet
• malet
• maletam
• maletadomil
• maletahorn
• maletamöp
• tüm

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