fax

See also: Fax and ℻

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: făks, (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /fæks/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter)

  Audio (US)

  (file)

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Homophone: facts (informal US and Canada pronunciation)
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -æks

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English fax, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English feax (“hair, head of hair”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *fahsą (“hair, mane”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *poḱs- (“hair”, literally “that which is combed, shorn, or plucked”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to comb, shear, pluck”). Cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch vas (“headhair”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Fachs (“head-hair”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Norwegian faks (“mane”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Icelandic fax (“mane”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Sanskrit पक्ष्मन् (pakṣman, “eyelash, hair, filament”).

Noun

fax (usually uncountable, plural faxes)

1. (obsolete or UK dialectal) The hair of the head.

Derived terms

• faxed
• Fairfax
• Halifax

Etymology 2

, first attested 1979.

Noun

fax (plural faxes)

1. A fax machine or a document received and printed by one.

Translations

document transmitted by telephone

• Albanian: faks m
• Alemannic German: fax
• Arabic: فَاكْس m (fāks)
• Armenian: ֆաքս (fakʻs), հեռապատճեն (heṙapatčen)
• Azeri: faks
• Belarusian: факс m (faks)
• Bengali: ফ্যাক্স (phæks)
• Bulgarian: факс m (faks)
• Burmese: ပုံတူညီသော (pumtu-nyisau:), ဖက်စ် (hpakc)
• Catalan: fax
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傳真／传真 (zh) (chuánzhēn), 传真 (zh) (chuánzhēn)

• Czech: fax (cs) m
• Dutch: fax (nl) m
• Estonian: faks
• Finnish: faksi (fi)
• French: fax (fr) m, (document) télécopie (fr) f, (machine) télécopieur (fr) m
• Galician: fax m
• Georgian: ფაქსი (paksi)
• German: Fax (de) n
• Greek: φαξ (el) n (fax), τηλεομοιότυπο (el) n (tileomoiótypo)
• Hebrew: פַקְס (he) m (faks)
• Hindi: फैक्स (phaiks), फ़ैक्स (faiks)
• Hungarian: fax (hu)
• Indonesian: faks (id)
• Italian: fax (it) m, telefax m
• Japanese: ファックス (fakkusu), ファクシミリ (fakushimiri)
• Kazakh: факс (faks)
• Khmer: ទូរសារ (tuu saa)
• Korean: 팩스 (ko), 팩시밀리 (ko)
• Kyrgyz: факс (faks)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lao: ການຄັດສຳເນົາ (kaːn kʰāt săm náo), ແພັກ (phæk)
• Latin: facsimilis m
• Latvian: fakss m, faksimils m
• Lithuanian: faksas m
• Luxembourgish: fax
• Macedonian: факс m (faks)
• Malay: faks
• Norman: fax m (Jersey)
• Persian: دورنگار (fa) (dornegâr), فاکس (fa) (fâks)
• Polish: fax (pl) m, faks (pl) m, telefaks m, telefax m
• Portuguese: fax (pt)
• Romanian: fax
• Russian: факс (ru) m (faks), факси́миле (ru) n (faksímile), телефа́кс (ru) m (telefáks)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: факс m

  Roman: fax m, faks (sh) m

• Slovak: fax m
• Slovene: fax m
• Spanish: fax (es) m
• Swahili: faksi (sw)
• Swedish: fax (sv) c, telefax (sv) c
• Tajik: факс (faks)
• Thai: แฟกซ์ (fâek)
• Turkish: faks (tr)
• Turkmen: faks
• Ukrainian: факс m (faks)
• Urdu: نسخۂ کامل, فاکس (fāks)
• Uzbek: faks (uz)
• Venda: fekisi
• Vietnamese: fax (vi), điện thư
• Yiddish: פֿאַקס (faks)

Verb

1. To send a document via a fax machine.

Translations

send document

• Arabic: أَرْسَلَ فَاكْس (ʾarsala faks)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發傳真／发传真, 发传真 (fā chuánzhēn)

• Czech: faxovat
• Dutch: faxen (nl)
• Finnish: faksata (fi)
• French: faxer (fr), oïn
• German: faxen, fernkopieren
• Greek: τηλεομοιοτυπώ (tileomoiotypó), στέλνω φαξ (stélno fax)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: ファクスを送る (fakkusu-o okuru)
• Norman: faxer
• Persian: دورنگاریدن (dōrnegâridan), فکس کردن (faks kardan)
• Polish: faksować (pl), przefaksować
• Portuguese: mandar/enviar por fax
• Russian: посыла́ть факс (posylátʹ faks), передава́ть факс (peredavátʹ faks)
• Swahili: faksi (sw)
• Swedish: faxa (sv)

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Czech

Noun

1. fax (document)
2. fax, fax machine

Related terms

• faxovat

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Dutch

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English (deprecated template usage) fax.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ɑks
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter)

  Audio

  (file)

Noun

fax m (plural faxen, diminutive faxje n)

1. fax

Synonyms

• telefacsimile
• telefax

Verb

1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of faxen
2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of faxen

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Hungarian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English (tele)fax, from facsimile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒks]

Noun

fax (plural faxok)

1. fax

Declension

Inflection of fax
	singular	plural
nominative	fax	faxok
accusative	faxot	faxokat
dative	faxnak	faxoknak
instrumental	faxszal	faxokkal
causal-final	faxért	faxokért
translative	faxszá	faxokká
terminative	faxig	faxokig
essive-formal	faxként	faxokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	faxban	faxokban
superessive	faxon	faxokon
adessive	faxnál	faxoknál
illative	faxba	faxokba
sublative	faxra	faxokra
allative	faxhoz	faxokhoz
elative	faxból	faxokból
delative	faxról	faxokról
ablative	faxtól	faxoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	faxé	faxoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	faxéi	faxokéi

Possessive forms of fax
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	faxom	faxaim
2nd person sing.	faxod	faxaid
3rd person sing.	faxa	faxai
1st person plural	faxunk	faxaink
2nd person plural	faxotok	faxaitok
3rd person plural	faxuk	faxaik

Derived terms

• faxol

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /faxs/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /faks/

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse fax (“mane”) from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *poḱ-s-, from *peḱ- (“to pluck”).

Noun

fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)

1. mane (of a horse)

Declension

declension of fax

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fax	faxið	föx	föxin
accusative	fax	faxið	föx	föxin
dative	faxi	faxinu	föxum	föxunum
genitive	fax	faxins	faxa	faxanna

See also

• makki

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English fax, from facsimile, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin.

Noun

fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)

1. fax, telefax (document sent electronically and printed with a fax machine)

Declension

declension of fax

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fax	faxið	föx	föxin
accusative	fax	faxið	föx	föxin
dative	faxi	faxinu	föxum	föxunum
genitive	fax	faxins	faxa	faxanna

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Latin

Etymology

Some connect this along with faciēs, facētus, focus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, “to shine”).

Pronunciation

• Template:la-pronunc

Noun

1. torch, firebrand
2. fireball, comet
3. cause of ruin, incitement

Derived terms

• facula

References

• “fax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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Lojban

Rafsi

1. Rafsi of fraxu.

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Norman

Etymology

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Noun

fax m (plural fax)

1. (Jersey) fax

(deprecated template usage)

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Old Norse

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *poḱs-, from *peḱ- (“to pluck”).

Noun

fax n

1. a mane

Declension

  Declension of fax (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fax	faxit	fǫx	fǫxin
accusative	fax	faxit	fǫx	fǫxin
dative	faxi	faxinu	fǫxum	fǫxunum
genitive	faxs	faxsins	faxa	faxanna

Descendants

• Faroese: faks
• Icelandic: fax
• Norwegian: faks

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Polish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /[faks]/

Noun

fax m inan

1. fax

Declension

Declension of fax

	singular	plural
nominative	fax	faksy
genitive	faksu	faksów
dative	faksowi	faksom
accusative	fax	faksy
instrumental	faksem	faksami
locative	faksie	faksach
vocative	faksie	faksy

Synonyms

• faks, telefaks, telefax

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Portuguese

Noun

fax m (plural es or fax)

1. fax (document transmitted by telephone)

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Spanish

Etymology

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Noun

fax m (plural fax)

1. fax

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Swedish

Noun

fax c or n

1. a fax (machine) c
2. a fax (document) n

Related terms

(deprecated use of |lang= parameter)

• faksimil
• faxa
• faxmeddelande
• faxnummer
• faxsignal
• faxsändning

 

Synonyms

• telefax

References

• fax in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (14th ed., online)