fa

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Pronunciation 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 See also 1.6 Anagrams 2 Catalan 2.1 Etymology 1 2.1.1 Noun 2.2 Etymology 2 2.2.1 Interjection 3 Hungarian 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Pronunciation 3.3 Adjective 3.4 Noun 3.4.1 Declension 3.4.2 Derived terms 3.5 See also 4 Italian 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Verb form 4.3 Adverb 4.3.1 Synonyms 4.4 Noun 5 Lojban 5.1 Particle 5.1.1 Related terms 6 Mandarin 6.1 Verb 6.2 Suffix 6.3 Usage notes 7 Scots 7.1 Etymology 7.2 Pronunciation 7.3 Pronoun 8 Swahili 8.1 Verb 9 Volapük 9.1 Preposition

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

• fah

[edit] Etymology

From the first syllable of the Latin word famuli, extracted of the poem Mira gestorum famuli tuorum.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /fɑ/

  Rhymes: -ɑː

[edit] Noun

fa (plural fas)

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

[edit] Translations

[edit] See also

do la mi

re so ti

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: AF

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[edit] Catalan

[edit] Etymology 1

[edit] Noun

fa m. (plural fas)

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

[edit] Etymology 2

From the Catalan verb fer (“‘to do’”)).

[edit] 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 doesn’t is seen!”, meaning “it’s obvious!”

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[edit] Hungarian

[edit] Etymology

From the same Uralic root *puwe as the Finnish and Estonian puu.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfɒ/
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[edit] Adjective

fa (not comparable)

1. wooden (mostly in compounds)

[edit] Noun

fa (plural fák)

1. wood (material beneath the bark of the trunk or branches of a tree)
2. tree
3. lumber
4. timber

[edit] Declension

declension of fa singular plural nominative fa fák accusative fát fákat dative fának fáknak instrumental fával fákkal causal-final fáért fákért translative fává fákká terminative fáig fákig essive-formal faként fákként essive-modal - - inessive fában fákban superessive fán fákon adessive fánál fáknál illative fába fákba sublative fára fákra allative fához fákhoz elative fából fákból delative fáról fákról ablative fától fáktól

possessives of fa possessor singular possession plural possession 1st person sing. fám fáim 2nd person sing. fád fáid 3rd person sing. fája fái 1st person plural fánk fáink 2nd person plural fátok fáitok 3rd person plural fájuk fáik

[edit] Derived terms

akasztófa almafa birsalmafa cédrusfa családfa diófa ébenfa eperfa

facsavar faeper fahéj fahéjfa fakopáncs fakutya falevél farész faszén

fatörzs favágó fűzfa gyümölcsfa hársfa kajszibarackfa karácsonyfa karfa

körtefa licsifa narancsfa olajfa orgonafa sárgabarackfa tiszafa tölgyfa vállfa

[edit] See also

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

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈfa], SAMPA: /"fa/
• Hyphenation: fà

[edit] Verb form

fa

1. third person singular present tense of fare
2. second person singular imperative of fare ; synonyms fai or fa'

[edit] Adverb

fa

1. ago

[edit] Synonyms

• prima

[edit] Noun

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fa m. inv.

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

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[edit] Lojban

[edit] Particle

fa

1. Indicates that the following word or phrase is the x1 sumti

[edit] Related terms

fe fi

fo fu

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Verb

fa (Pinyin fā, traditional 發, simplified 发)

1. send out

[edit] Suffix

fa (Pinyin fa3, traditional and simplified 法)

1. Alternative spelling of -fa.

fa

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, fā, fá, fǎ, or fà.

[edit] Usage notes

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.

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[edit] Scots

[edit] Etymology

Variant of English who.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /fa/

[edit] Pronoun

fa

1. (Doric) who

   Fa's this quine, en?

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[edit] Swahili

[edit] Verb

fa

1. stem of the verb infinitive kufa: to die

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[edit] Volapük

[edit] Preposition

fa

1. by (indicating an agent)