فلس

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Aramaic פֵילַס (filas) / ܦܠܣ / פּוּלְסָא (fuləsā) /‎ ܦܘܽܠܣܴܐ (fuləsā), from Ancient Greek φόλλις (phóllis), from Latin follis.

Pronunciation

Noun

فِلْس or فُلْس or فَلْس (fils or fuls or falsm (plural فُلُوس (fulūs) or أَفْلُس (ʔaflus))

  1. a small-denomination coin, penny
  2. (informal, in the plural) money, mazuma, gwop
Declension
Derived terms

Descendants

  • Egyptian Arabic: فلوس (flūs)
  • Gulf Arabic: فلوس (flūs), فلس (fils)
  • Hijazi Arabic: فلوس (fulūs, filūs)
  • Maltese: flus
  • Moroccan Arabic: فلوس (flūs)
  • English: fils, fals
  • French: flouze
  • Indonesian: fulus

Etymology 2

Template:ar-denominal verb of فِلْس (fils).

Pronunciation

Verb

فَلَّسَ (fallasa) II, non-past يُفَلِّسُ‎ (yufallisu)

  1. to bankrupt, to make broke, to ruin, to render out of pennies
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φολίς (pholís).

Pronunciation

Noun

فَلْس (falsm (plural فُلُوس (fulūs))

  1. scale of a fish
Declension

References

  • pls”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “فلس”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 278
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 192
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “فلس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 369
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “فلس”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 629–630
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “فلس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2440
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فلس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 979–980

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic فَلْس (fals), from Ancient Greek φολίς (pholís).

Noun

فلس (fals) (plural فلس‌ها (fals-hâ))

  1. flake, lamination, scale
    The Bible, Acts 9:18:
    در ساعت از چشمان او چیزی مثل فلس افتاده، بینایی یافت و برخاسته، تعمید گرفت
    At that instant something like a scale fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized