ef

See also: ef-, -ef, and EF

English

Noun

ef (plural efs)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee/zed ^{(Category: en:Latin letter names)}

Derived terms

• eff

Translations

name of the letter F, f

• Arabic: إف m ('ef)
• Asturian: efe (ast) f
• Catalan: efa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists)

• Esperanto: fo (eo)
• Finnish: äf (fi)
• French: effe (fr) m, f
• Galician: efe (gl) m
• Hindi: एफ़ (ef), एफ (eph)
• Irish: eif, fern

• Italian: effe (it) m, f
• Japanese: エフ (efu)
• Korean: 에프 (epeu)
• Latin: ef (la)
• Malay: ef
• Marathi: एफ (efa)
• Persian: اف (fa) (ef)
• Portuguese: efe (pt) m
• Russian: эф (ru) n (ef)
• Spanish: efe (es) f
• Thai: เอฟ (ef)
• Turkish: fe (tr)

Anagrams

• FE, Fe

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛf/

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Noun

ef

1. The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse ef, from Proto-Germanic *jabai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛːv/

  Rhymes: -ɛːv

Conjunction

ef

1. if

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ef/

Noun

ef (indeclinable)

1. The name of the letter F.

Usage notes

• Multiple Latin names for the letter F, f have been suggested. The most common is ef or a syllabic f, although there is some evidence which also supports, as names for the letter, fē, əf, fə, and even (in the fourth- or fifth-century first Antinoë papyrus, which gives Greek transliterations of the Latin names of the Roman alphabet’s letters) ιφφε (iphphe).

Coordinate terms

• (Latin’s names for the letters of its own alphabet): ā (A), bē (B), cē (C), dē (D), ē (E), ef (F), gē (G), hā (H), ī (I), kā (K), el (L), em (M), en (N), ō (O), pē (P), kū (Q), er (R), es (S), tē (T), ū (V), ix / īx / ex (X), ȳ (Y), zēta (Z)

References

• Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), especially pages 30–31, 42–44, and 63

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Latvian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɛf]

Noun

ef m (invariable)

1. The Latvian name of the Latin script letter F/f.

See also

• Latvian letter names:

  a (A), garais ā (Ā), bē (B), cē (C), čē (Č), dē (D), e (E), garais ē (Ē), ef (F), gā (G), ģē (Ģ), hā (H), i (I), garais ī (Ī), jē (J), kā (K), ķē (Ķ), el (L), eļ (Ļ), em (M), en (N), eņ (Ņ), o (O), pē (P), er (R), es (S), eš (Š), tē (T), u (U), garais ū (Ū), vē (V), zē (Z), žē (Ž)

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Old French

Alternative forms

• e
• ep

Etymology

From Latin apem, accusative singular of apis.

Noun

ef m (oblique plural es, nominative singular es, nominative plural ef)

1. bee

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881)

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Old Saxon

Conjunction

ef

1. if, when

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Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *éy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eːv]

Pronoun

ef

1. he; him.

Usage notes

Ef is primarily a feature of Literary Welsh. Colloquial Welsh uses e or o instead.