f

See also բ, and Appendix:Variations of "f"

Translingual

Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER F
Codepoint	U+0066
e ← Basic Latin → g

Wikipedia

Etymology

Modification of upper case Latin letter F, from Greek Ϝ (W, “Digamma”), from Phœnician 𐤅 (W, “waw”), the ultimate source being probably Egyptian.

Letter

f lower case (upper case F)

1. The sixth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter F):  Ḟḟ  Ƒƒ  ᵮ  ᶂ  ꜰ  Ｆｆ  ff  fi  ffi  fl  ffl

Pronunciation

• IPA

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Symbol

Wikipedia

f

1. (music) forte
2. (IPA) voiceless labiodental fricative

See also

Other representations of F:

• Letter styles
• 

  Capital and lowercase versions of F, in normal and italic type

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  Uppercase and lowercase F in Fraktur

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English

Etymology 1

Old English lower case letter f, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case f of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚠ (f, “fe”).

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /ɛf/, X-SAMPA: /Ef/

Audio (US)

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Audio (UK)

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• (phoneme): IPA: /f/
• See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 178, 179, 188, 198, 230 in the 1913 Webster dictionary

Letter

f lowercase (uppercase F)

1. The sixth letter of the English alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) letter; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz

Number

f lower case (upper case F)

1. The ordinal number sixth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Symbol

f

1. (music) The name of the fourth tone of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F♯) is a tone intermediate between F and G.

Derived terms

F clef, the bass clef. See under Clef.

Abbreviation

f

1. (printing) Folio, paper and book size (10"-12.5" x 15"-20")
2. (euphemistic) fuck

   What the f do you think you're doing ?

3. Alternative form of f..

Derived terms

• effing and blinding

Synonyms

• (folio paper and book size): F, fo

Translations

feminine

• Hebrew: נ (he) (n)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can

• Marathi: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: ж (ru) (zh) 

See also

• F
• c
• m
• n

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Azeri

Letter

f lower case (upper case F)

1. The eighth letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) hərf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Əə, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Xx, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Qq, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛf
• (letter name): IPA: /ɛf/

Letter

f (lower case, upper case F)

1. The sixth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also

• Previous letter: e
• Next letter: g

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /fo/
• (phoneme): IPA: /f/

• Audio

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Letter

f lower case (upper case F)

1. The seventh letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called fo or ef and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) litero; Aa, Bb, Cc, Ĉĉ, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ĝĝ, Hh, Ĥĥ, Ii, Jj, Ĵĵ, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Ŝŝ, Tt, Uu, Ŭŭ, Vv, Zz

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Italian

Noun

f m and f (invariable)

1. See under F

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Latvian

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Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [f]

Letter

F

f lower case (upper case F)

1. The ninth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

The letter F/f (like H/h, and O/o representing [o], [oː] instead of [uə̯]) is found only in words of foreign origin (borrowings).

See also

• Letters of the Latvian alphabet:

  burti: Aa, Āā, Bb, Cc, Čč, Dd, Ee, Ēē, Ff, Gg, Ģģ, Hh, Ii, Īī, Jj, Kk, Ķķ, Ll, Ļļ, Mm, Nn, Ņņ, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Šš, Tt, Uu, Ūū, Vv, Zz, Žž

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Malay

Letter

f

1. The sixth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz

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Norwegian

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /efː/, /ɛfː/
• (phoneme): IPA: /f/

Letter

f

1. The 6th letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Audio (BR)

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Letter

f lower case (upper case F)

1. The sixth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called efe and written in the Latin script.
   • 2005, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Rocco, page 100:

     Hermione beliscou o braço do amigo com força.

     Hermione pinched her friend's arm with force.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fe/, /ef/

Letter

f (lowercase, capital F)

1. The eighth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /f/. Preceded by e and followed by g.

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (uppercase) F

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA: /f/

Letter

f (Cyrillic spelling ф)

1. The 10th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by e and followed by g.

Preposition

f

1. (Kajkavian) (with locative) in, at

1. (Kajkavian) (with accusative) to, into

1. (Kajkavian) (with accusative) on, in, at, during (in expressions concerning time)

1. (Kajkavian) (with locative) in, during (in expressions concerning time)

Synonyms

• u, v, vu

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Spanish

Letter

f (lower case, upper case F)

1. The sixth letter of the Spanish alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.

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Turkish

Letter

f lower case (upper case F)

1. The seventh letter of the Turkish alphabet, called fe and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) harf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz