English

Alternative forms

• fah

Noun

fa ‎(plural fas)

1. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth note of a major scale.

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• AF

Catalan

Etymology 1

Noun

fa m ‎(plural fes)

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

Etymology 2

From the Catalan verb fer ‎(“to do”).

Verb

fa

1. third-person singular present indicative form of fer

Preposition

fa

1. ago

   fa molts anys...

   many years ago...

Interjection

fa

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

   Fa que no es veu!

   literally, "it does that it's not seen!", meaning "it’s obvious!"

Czech

Abbreviation

fa

1. Abbreviation of firma.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa/

Noun

fa m ‎(plural fa)

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

Galician

Noun

fa m ‎(plural fas)

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

See also

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

Gothic

Romanization

fa

1. Romanization of 𐍆𐌰

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒ]

Noun

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)

Declension

Derived terms

• fás

(Expressions):

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

References

1. ↑ Entry #829 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
2. ↑ Gábor Zaicz, Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, ISBN 963 7094 01 6

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

fa

1. ago

Synonyms

• prima

Noun

fa m ‎(invariable)

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

Verb

fa

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

Alternative forms

• (imperative form) fa', fai

Japanese

Romanization

fa

1. rōmaji reading of ふぁ
2. rōmaji reading of ファ

Latvian

Noun

fa m (invariable)

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

Lojban

Cmavo

fa

1. Indicates that the following word or phrase is the x₁sumti.

Related terms

Mandarin

Romanization

fa

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

Usage notes

• 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.

Manx

Noun

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

1. reason, cause

Synonyms

• oyr

Derived terms

• cre'n fa
• gyn fa gyn oyr

Mutation

Norman

Pronunciation

Noun

fa m ‎(plural fas)

1. (Jersey) suit (clothing)

Synonyms

• suit

Novial

Verb

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.

Old Swedish

Etymology

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

Verb

fā

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

Conjugation

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Descendants

• Swedish: få

Scots

Etymology

Variant of wha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa/

Pronoun

fa

1. (Doric) who

   Fa's this quine, en?‎

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

South Marquesan

Etymology

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.

Numeral

fa

1. (cardinal) four

Spanish

Noun

fa m ‎(plural fa)

1. fa (musical note)

Swahili

Verb

-fa ‎(infinitive kufa)

1. to die

Conjugation

Related terms

• fu

See also

• ua

Tuvaluan

Etymology

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.

Numeral

fa

1. (cardinal) four

Venetian

Noun

fa m ‎(invariable)

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

Adverb

fa

1. as, like

Volapük

Preposition

fa

1. by (indicating an agent)

Wuvulu-Aua

Etymology

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.

Numeral

fa

1. (cardinal) four

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *fa. Cognate of Swahili kufa.

Verb

-fa

1. (intransitive) to die

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• -fela
• -fisa

Related terms

• ifa
• isifo