fa
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[edit] English
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From the first syllable of the Latin word famuli, extracted of the poem Mira gestorum famuli tuorum.
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fa (plural fas)
- (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth note of a major scale.
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fourth note of a major scale
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[edit] Catalan
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fa m. (plural fas)
- (music) fa (fourth note of diatonic scale)
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From the Catalan verb fer (“‘to do’”)).
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fa
- (dialectal) A particle used in some dialects to emphasize a negative sentence.
- Fa que no es veu!
- literally, “it does that it doesn’t is seen!”, meaning “it’s obvious!”
- Fa que no es veu!
[edit] Hungarian
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From the same Uralic root *puwe as the Finnish and Estonian puu.
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fa (not comparable)
- wooden (mostly in compounds)
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fa (plural fák)
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declension of fa
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fa
- third person singular present tense of fare
- second person singular imperative of fare ; synonyms fai or fa'
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fa
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fa m. inv.
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fa
- Indicates that the following word or phrase is the x1 sumti
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fa (Pinyin fā, traditional 發, simplified 发)
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fa (Pinyin fa3, traditional and simplified 法)
- Alternative spelling of -fa.
fa
- A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, fā, fá, fǎ, or fà.
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English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
[edit] Scots
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- IPA: /fa/
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fa
- (Doric) who
- Fa's this quine, en?
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fa
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fa
- by (indicating an agent)
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