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Fra

Fra

(frȧ)

,

adv.

& p

rep.

[OE.]

Fro.

[Old Eng. & Scot.]

Fra

(frȧ)

,

Noun.

[It., for

frate

. See

.]

Brother; – a title of a monk or friar;

as,

Fra

Angelo

.

Longfellow.

Definition 2024

frá

frá

See also: fra, Fra, FRA, frå, fra-, and fra.

Icelandic

Preposition

frá

(with dative) from, away from, about

Derived terms

Derived terms

bíta frá sér
dag frá degi (from one day to the next)
fara frá
frá morgni til kvölds (from morning to evening)
segja frá (to tell about)

upp frá því (from then on)
vera ekki frá því að
vera frá, koma frá (to come from, to be from, to hail from)
vera frá sér (to be out of one's mind)

Adverb

frá

(adverbial form of preposition, used in compounds)

Derived terms

Derived terms

héðan í frá (from now on)
til og frá (to and fro)

út í frá (among strangers)
vera af og frá (to be out of the question)

Anagrams

fár

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fram ‎(“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- ‎(“forth, forward”). Cognate with Old English fram, Old Saxon fram, Old Dutch fram-, Old High German fram, Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌼 ‎(fram).

Preposition

frá

(with dative) from, away from, about

Adverb

frá (not comparable)

Descendants

Danish: fra
English: fro
Faroese: frá

Icelandic: frá
Scots: frae
Swedish: från