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Fal

Fal

See also: fal, FAL, fál, fàl, and fäl

English

Proper noun

Fal

  1. A river in Cornwall, England.

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faːl/
    • Rhymes: -aːl

Etymology 1

From Old High German falt, from Proto-Germanic *falþō. Compare German Falte, English fold.

Noun

Fal f ‎(plural Falen)

  1. crease, fold
  2. wrinkle
Related terms

Etymology 2

From Old High German falla. Cognate with German Falle.

Noun

Fal f ‎(plural Falen)

  1. trap

fal

fal

See also: Fal, FAL, fál, and fàl

Albanian

Verb

fal ‎(first-person singular past tense fala, participle falur)

  1. I forgive
  2. I give (as a present)
  3. I pray, am respectful
  4. I salute, greet
  5. to set (of the sun)
Related terms

References

  1. ↑ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “fal”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 93

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɒl]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *paδɜ ‎(“dam, weir”). Cognates include Finnish pato ‎(“dam”). [1][2]

Noun

fal ‎(plural falak)

  1. wall
Declension
Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative fal falak
accusative falat falakat
dative falnak falaknak
instrumental fallal falakkal
causal-final falért falakért
translative fallá falakká
terminative falig falakig
essive-formal falként falakként
essive-modal — —
inessive falban falakban
superessive falon falakon
adessive falnál falaknál
illative falba falakba
sublative falra falakra
allative falhoz falakhoz
elative falból falakból
delative falról falakról
ablative faltól falaktól
Possessive forms of fal
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. falam falaim
2nd person sing. falad falaid
3rd person sing. fala falai
1st person plural falunk falaink
2nd person plural falatok falaitok
3rd person plural faluk falaik
Derived terms

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(Expressions):

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Etymology 2

From Proto-Uralic *pala ‎(“bit, bite; eat, stuff (eating a lot very quickly”). Cognates include Finnish pala. [3][2]

Verb

fal

  1. to devour
Conjugation
Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ Entry #687 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. 1 2 Gábor Zaicz, Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, ISBN 963 7094 01 6
  3. ↑ Entry #695 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Icelandic

Noun

fal

  1. indefinite accusative singular of falur
  2. indefinite dative singular of falur

Kott

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Yeniseian *ʔapV ("hotness, sweat"). Compare Assan palá, pfóltu, paltu ("hot").

Adjective

fal

  1. hot, warm

Related terms

Ladin

Noun

fal m ‎(plural fai)

  1. error

Lojban

Rafsi

fal

  1. rafsi of farlu.

Luxembourgish

Verb

fal

  1. second-person singular imperative of falen

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fal/

Noun

fal f

  1. genitive plural of fala

Swedish

Adjective

fal (not comparable)

  1. (dated) for sale, that can be bought, bribable, corrupt
    en fal kvinna
    a prostitute

Declension

Inflection of fal
Indefinite/attributive Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular fal — —
Neuter singular falt — —
Plural fala — —
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 fale — —
All fala — —
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in an attributive role.

Related terms

References

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic فَال ‎(fāl).

Noun

fal ‎(definite accusative falı, plural fallar)

  1. fortune telling, omen

Declension

See also

  • fala inanma, falsız da kalma
  • falcı
  • fal bakmak
  • kahve falı

Volapük

Noun

fal ‎(plural fals)

  1. the action of falling
  2. (grammar) grammatical case (in classic or original Volapük (Volapük rigik: kimfal ‎(“nominative”), kimafal ‎(“genitive”), borrowed from German Fall ‎(“case”))

Declension

Derived terms

  • däfalön ‎(“to fall to pieces”)
  • falön ‎(“to fall”)
  • fälön ‎(“to make or cause to fall, to fell”)

Compounds

  • falayan ‎(“trapdoor, hatch”)
  • vatafal ‎(“water fall”)

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *spala, from Proto-Indo-European *pōl-, *spōl- ‎(“to fall”). Cognate to Ancient Greek σφάλλω ‎(sphállō, “to overthrow”)[1], Lithuanian pùlti ‎(“to attack, rush”), German fallen ‎(“to fall”).

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