fa

• fah

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.

• IPA^(key): /fɑ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː

fa (plural fas)

1. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth note of a major scale.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:

     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.

• AF, af

• IPA^(key): [fa]

fa

1. to lose
2. to tear

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

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

fa m (plural fas)

1. (music) fa (fourth note of diatonic scale)

From the Catalan verb fer (“to do”).

fa

1. third-person singular present indicative form of fer

fa

1. ago

   fa molts anys...

   many years ago...

fa

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

   Fa que no es veu!

   it’s obvious!

   (literally, “it does that it's not seen!”)

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fa (infinitive kufa)

1. to die

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -fera

• Nominal derivations:
  • imfa (“death”)

fa

1. Abbreviation of firma.

• IPA^(key): /fa/

• Audio (Paris)

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fa m (plural fa)

1. (music) fa, the note 'F'.

• “fa” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

fa m (plural fas)

1. (music) fa (musical note)
2. (music) F (the musical note or key)

• (musical notes) nota musical; dó, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si ^{(Category: gl:Music)}

fa

1. Romanization of 𐍆𐌰

From Proto-Uralic *puxe. Cognates include Finnish puu.[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒ]

• Audio

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fa (plural fák)

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

• fás

(Expressions):

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

• (imperative form): fa', fai

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

fa

1. ago

• prima

fa m (invariable)

1. (music) fa (musical note)
2. F (musical note or key)

fa

1. third-person singular indicative present of fare
2. second-person singular imperative of fare

fa

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふぁ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ファ

fa m (invariable)

1. (music) fa, the note 'F'.

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

fa

1. to die

fa (Zhuyin ˙ㄈㄚ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 𠲎

fa

1. Nonstandard spelling of fā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of fá.
3. Nonstandard spelling of fǎ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of fà.

• 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.

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

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

1. reason, cause

• oyr

• cre'n fa
• gyn fa gyn oyr

From the oblique stem of Old English ġefāh.

fa (plural fas)

1. Alternative form of fo

From Old English fā, variant of fāh.

fa

1. Alternative form of fo

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.

fa

1. four

• Audio (Jersey)

  (file)

fa m (plural fas)

1. (Jersey) suit (clothing)

• suit

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

1. make; do
   • 1928, Otto Jespersen, An International Language, page 77

     On fa butre fro milke.

     One makes butter from milk.

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

fā

1. to seize, take
2. to get, receive

• Swedish: få

From Proto-Nguni *-fá, from Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fá

1. to die

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Variant of wha.

• IPA^(key): /fa/

fa

1. (Doric) who

   Fa's this quine, en?

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

fa

1. to die

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.

fa

1. four

• IPA^(key): /fa/

fa m (plural fa)

1. fa (musical note)

fa

1. (Argentina) ew, phew (expression of disgust)

• puaj
• guácala

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fa (infinitive kufa)

1. to die
2. to stop, come to an end

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

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

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

• -ua (“kill”)

From Proto-Nguni *-fá, from Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fá

1. (intransitive) to die

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

fa

1. to die

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.

fa

1. four

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

fa

1. to die

fa m (invariable)

1. (music) fa (musical note)
2. F (musical note or key)

fa

1. as, like

fa

1. by (indicating an agent)

• IPA^(key): /foː/, /fɒː/, /fɑː/

• Rhymes: -óː

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

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

1. To receive, obtain.

   Han hyllrä vä’óm, dilliss han fekk hä ’an villt ― He coaxed him til he got what he wanted.

   Han fekk säg ä bra tag ― He got himself a good deal

   Fing je lik mykke i år sóm i fjol? ― Did you get as much this year as last year?

   Han fekk helä hvärvä ― He was dressed from head to foot.

   faattse ― to grab for oneself

   faattse aann ― to start breathing normally again

   fase värrmen ― to get warm

   hä fås bȧra småglirn hjänna ― one can only catch small fish here

2. To have children.

   få småfólk ― to bear children

3. To give, hand.

   Få mäg yksa! ― Hand me the axe!

4. (reflexive, intransitive) To convalesce.

   Han håll å få säg ― He’s starting to recover.

5. (auxiliary verb) May.

   fasi matt gammal hall du a vara ― May I ask how old you’re starting to become?

   fasi åm jä fatin fara dellåm ― I’ll see if I have time to visit him.

• anfått
• seinfatt

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

fa

1. Few.

• famönnes
• fang
• fangfor
• faräjj
• faräjjes
• feengt
• fått

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.

fa

1. four

From Proto-Nguni *-fá, from Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

• IPA^(key): [fá]

-fá

1. (intransitive) to die

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Nguni *-fá, from Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

IPA^(key): /fá/

-fá

1. (intransitive) to die

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