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fas

Translingual

Symbol

fas

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2/T & ISO 639-3 language code for Persian.

English

Etymology 1

Noun

fas

1. plural of fa

Etymology 2

From Middle English fas, from Old English fæs.

Noun

fas (plural fases)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) A border or fringe.
2. (Scotland, obsolete) A thing represented as being worthless.

Anagrams

• SFA, asf, AFs, ASF, AFS, FSA, SAF, Afs

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfas]
• Rhymes: -as

Noun

fas

1. plural of fa

Verb

fas

1. second-person singular present indicative of fer

Danish

Etymology

From German Fase, from Latin facies.

Noun

fas c (singular definite fasen, plural indefinite faser or fase)

1. a chamfer

Declension

Related terms

• fase

References

• “fas” in Den Danske Ordbog

Galician

Etymology 1

Verb

fas

1. second-person singular present indicative of facer

Etymology 2

Noun

fas m pl

1. plural of fa

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

Verb

fas

1. singular imperative of fasen

Hlai

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hlai, Baoding) IPA^(key): /fa˩/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hlai *fʰaːʔ (“sky”), from Pre-Hlai *faːʔ (Norquest, 2015). Compare Proto-Tai *vaːꟲ (“sky; weather”) (whence Thai ฟ้า (fáa)).

Noun

fas

1. sky

Etymology 2

From Proto-Hlai *C-waːʔ (“sour”), from Pre-Hlai *C-waːʔ (Norquest, 2015).

Adjective

fas

1. sour

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faːs/

  Rhymes: -aːs

Noun

fas n (genitive singular fass, no plural)

1. deportment, manner

Declension

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfas]
• Hyphenation: fas
• Rhymes: -as

Noun

fas (plural fas-fas)

1. alternative spelling of vas (“vase”)

Jamaican Creole

Adjective

fas

1. alternative spelling of fast

Latin

Alternative forms

• phās (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fās, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂os (“utterance, saying”), a derivative of the root *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”), whence also for, fārī. However, Beekes thinks there is "no convincing etymology" for Latin fās and Ancient Greek ὁσία (hosía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfaːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfas]

Noun

fās n sg (indeclinable, no genitive)

1. (uncountable) dictates of religion, divine law (opp. iūs, human law), or an obligation thereunder
2. (uncountable) divine will or right, the will of God or heaven; a predetermined destiny
3. (uncountable) right, proper, allowable, lawful, fit, permitted, permissible, possible

Declension

Indeclinable noun (used only in the nominative and accusative), singular only.

Derived terms

• fāstus
• nefās

References

• “fas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
• “fas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fas”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 203

Middle English

Noun

fas

1. alternative form of fass

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *vëstē.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈfas/

Adverb

fas

1. again, once more
2. on the other hand

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[4], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

fas

1. imperative of fase

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑs/

Noun

fas n

1. alternative form of fæs

Spanish

Verb

fas

1. inflection of far:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular voseo present indicative

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

fas c

1. a phase, a time period
2. a phase (angular difference in periodic waves)

   i fas, ur fas

   in phase, out of phase

3. a sloping edge

Declension

Related terms

• fasa
• fasett

Descendants

• → Finnish: faasi

References

• fas in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaːs/

Etymology 1

From English vase.

Noun

fas f (plural fasys, not mutable)

1. vase

Etymology 2

Noun

fas

1. soft mutation of bas

Mutation

Etymology 3

Adverb

fas

1. soft mutation of mas

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “fas”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Wolof

Etymology

From Arabic فَرَس (faras).

Pronunciation

Noun

fas (definite form fas wi)

1. horse

Source: wiktionary.org