falla

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ʎə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ʎa/

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *facla, contracted form of Latin facula (“little torch”), diminutive of fax. Compare the borrowed doublet fàcula.

falla f (plural falles)

1. constructions of inflammable materials, based in figures that are caricatures (the ninots) that are installed in certain Valencian municipalities and are burned to ashes the day of Saint Joseph.
2. the holidays around these constructions.
3. the associations or organizations around these constructions.
4. fire, bonfire

From fallir.

falla f (plural falles)

1. fault or lack
2. (geology) fault

• fallar

• “falla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Old Norse falla, from Proto-Germanic *fallaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pōl-.

falla (third person singular past indicative fall, third person plural past indicative fullu, supine fallið)

1. to fall

From Old Norse falla, from Proto-Germanic *fallaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pōl-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfatla/
• Rhymes: -atla

falla (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative féll, third-person plural past indicative féllu, supine fallið)

1. (intransitive) to fall ^syn.
2. (intransitive) to be killed, especially in action or in battle ^syn.
   • Matthew 26:52 (English and Icelandic)

     Jesús sagði við hann: „Slíðra sverð þitt! Allir, sem sverði bregða, munu fyrir sverði falla.“

     “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.”

3. (intransitive) to flow ^syn.
4. (intransitive) to fit closely, to shut tight, to meet ^syn.
5. (intransitive) to like ^syn.

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• (fall): ^def. detta
• (be killed): ^def. vera drepinn
• (flow): ^def. streyma
• (fit closely): ^def. falla þétt að
• (like): ^def. líka

• falla allur ketill í eld
• falla um
• falla um koll
• falla í gleymsku
• falla vel við (to like somebody)

  Mér fellur vel við hann.

  I like him.

• falla þungt (to be grieved by something)

  Mér fellur þetta þungt.

  This grieves me.

• fallast
• fallast á
• fallast hendur
• fallinn m, fallin f, fallið
• vera vel til fallið (to be a good idea)
• falla á prófi (to fail an exam)
• falla að (of the tide; to be coming in)
• falla frá
• falla í gjalddaga
• falla í kosningum
• falla í stafi
• falla í skaut
• falla niður
• fall
• falla eins og flís við rass

• fella

falla n

1. indefinite genitive plural of fall

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠɑl̪ˠə/

falla m (genitive singular falla, nominative plural fallaí)

1. (Munster) wall

• balla (Connacht, Ulster)

falla f (plural falle)

1. leak

falla

1. inflection of fallare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Italian fallire.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɐlːɐ/

falla (imperfect jfalli)

1. to be absent

• fallene

falla n

1. definite plural of fall

falla

1. definite plural of fall

falla (present tense fell, past tense fall, past participle falle, passive infinitive fallast, present participle fallande, imperative fall)

1. Alternative form of falle

From Proto-Germanic *fallaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pōl-. Akin to Old English feallan (English fall), Old Frisian falla (West Frisian falle), Old Saxon fallan (Low German fallen), Old Dutch fallan (Dutch vallen), Old High German fallan (German fallen).

falla (singular past indicative féll, plural past indicative féllu, past participle fallinn)

1. to fall

From Old Norse falla, from Proto-Germanic *fallaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pōl-.

falla

1. to fall

• Swedish: falla

falla f (plural fallas)

1. Obsolete spelling of fala

falla

1. Obsolete spelling of fala

From Vulgar Latin falla.

falla f (plural fallas)

1. A flaw.
2. A failure.
3. An outage, such as a blackout.
4. (geology) A fault.

falla

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of fallar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of fallar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of fallar.

From Old Swedish falla, from Old Norse falla, from Proto-Germanic *fallaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pōl-.

• IPA^(key): /falːa/

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falla

1. to fall
2. to die, especially in battle

• (fall): trilla
• (die): stupa

• fälla