far

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See also: Far, FAR, far-, -far, fár, får, and fær

English

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai.

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Adjective

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far (comparative farther or further, superlative farthest or furthest or farthermost or furthermost)

  1. Distant; remote in space.
    He went to a far land.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version), London: [] Robert Barker, [], →OCLC, Joshua 9:6:
      And they went to Ioshua vnto the campe at Gilgal, and said vnto him, and to the men of Israel, Wee be come from a farre countrey: Now therefore make ye a league with vs.
    • 2009, Graham Huggan, Ian Law, Racism Postcolonialism Europe, page 1:
      Tsiolkas's Europe, as voraciously predatory as his own undead protagonist, is a far cry from the fount of idealistic humanism dreamed up by generations of both pre- and post-Enlightenment politicians and philosophers, a Europe defined by its durable capacity for civility in an otherwise barbarous world.
  2. Remote in time.
    the far future
  3. Long. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
    • 2011, Peggy Woods, Ramblings from a Soul, page 42:
      I have such a long way to go but yet I have come such a far piece already
  4. More remote of two.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
    See those two mountains? The ogre lives on the far one.
    He moved to the far end of the state. She remained at this end.
  5. Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.
    They are on the far right on this issue.
    • 2010, William Alexander Patterson, 4th, The City Is served Bartholomew! to the American Prison!, page 118:
      He was withdrawn to such a far degree that it required of Piers and Jude a good deal of occasional conferencing between the two of them, in private.
  6. Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
    • 1657, Henry Ainsworth, Zachary Coke, The Art of Logick., page 26:
      As sensible maketh a man differ from a stone, in a far difference; for other Species, as Beasts, have the same difference, but reasonable is the nearest, whereby he differeth from a stone, beasts, and all other things.
    • 1979, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations, Military situation in the Far East - Volume 3, page 1737:
      Is there not a far difference between asking it up and urging it, Mr. Secretary?
    • 2010, Deborah Cartmell, Screen Adaptations: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, page 78:
      The pressbook identifies the film as a 'picturization of Jane Austen's widely read novel' and starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier (based on the theatrical adaptation by Helen Jerome), it is a far remove from adaptations that follow.
    • 2014, Henry Sussman, Playful Intelligence: Digitizing Tradition, page 124:
      This may not be at such a far remove from the endlessly recursive textual inventions of Kafka, Beckett, and Bernhard as it may seem.
  7. (programming, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
    far heap; far memory; far pointer
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Adverb

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far (comparative farther or further, superlative farthest or furthest)

  1. To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.
    You have all come far and you will go further.
    He built a time machine and travelled far into the future.
    Over time, his views moved far away from mine.
  2. Very much; by a great amount.
    He was far richer than we'd thought.
    The expense far exceeds what I expected.
    I saw a tiny figure far below me.
    • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
      The Reds were on the back foot early on when a catalogue of defensive errors led to Ramires giving Chelsea the lead. Jay Spearing conceded possession in midfield and Ramires escaped Jose Enrique far too easily before scoring at the near post with a shot Reina should have saved.
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Verb

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far (third-person singular simple present fars, present participle farring, simple past and past participle farred)

  1. (transitive, rare) To send far away.
    • 1864, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis:
      But I wish he'd been farred before he ever came near this house, with his “Please Betty” this, and “Please Betty” that, and drinking up our new milk as if he'd been a cat. I hate such beguiling ways.
    • 1962, Thomas Berger, Reinhart in Love:
      […] so Joe come to me and he uz sore as a boil and said you goddam prevert, I don't want no twenny-two-year-old mechanic who still pulls his pood in the toilet, and farred me.

Etymology 2

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From Latin far. Doublet of farro.

Noun

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far (uncountable)

  1. Emmer (a type of wheat), especially in the context of Roman use of it.
    • 1756, Aurelius Cornelius Celsus, Medicine: In Eight Books, page 108:
      A cataplasm made from any meal is heating, whether it be of wheat, or of far, or barley, or bitter vetch, ...
    • 1857, John Marius Wilson, The Rural Cyclopedia:
      Almost all the rustic writers agree in this, that far is most proper for wet clay land, and triticum for dry land. 'In wet red clays,' says Cato, 'sow far; and in dry, clean, and open lands, sow triticum.'
    • 1872, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Brides and Bridals, volume 1, page 201:
      Our wedding-cake is the memorial of a practice, that bore a striking resemblance to, if it was not derived from, confarreatio, the form of marriage that had fallen into general disuse amongst the Romans in the time of Tiberius. Taking its name from the cake of far and mola salsa that was broken over the bride's head, confarreatio was attended with an incident that increases its resemblance to the way in which our ancestors used at their weddings objects symbolical of natural plentifulness.
    • 1919, Carl Holliday, Wedding Customs Then and Now, page 32:
      The early Romans broke a cake of far and mola salsa (salted meal) over the bride's head, — a symbol of plentifulness, []
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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far (plural fars)

  1. (UK, dialect) A litter of piglets; a farrow.

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Albanian

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Etymology

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Latin Pharus. +

Noun

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far m

  1. lighthouse

Catalan

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Etymology

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Derived from Latin pharus.

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Noun

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far m (plural fars)

  1. lighthouse
  2. headlight
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Cimbrian

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Noun

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far ?

  1. fern

References

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  • Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dalmatian

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Verb

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far

  1. Alternative form of fur

Danish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (father).

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far c (singular definite faren, plural indefinite fædre)

  1. father, dad

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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Back-formation from fari (to do, to make).

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Preposition

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far

  1. (neologism) by[1]
    La libro de Johano far Ŝekspiro
    John's book by Shakespeare
    regado de la popolo, far la popolo, kaj por la popolo
    government of the people, by the people, and for the people
    Synonyms: de, fare de

Usage notes

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Unofficial. The most common innovative preposition, far is used for some of the functions of the preposition de "of, from, by", which some authors feel is overworked. Useful to distinguish, for example, the owner of a book (de) from the author (far).

References

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  1. ^ Wennergren, Bertilo (2010 March 9) “Neoficialaj rolvortetoj”, in Plena Manlibro de Esperanta Gramatiko[1] (in Esperanto), archived from the original on 27 September 2010

Faroese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Norse far.

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Noun

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far n (genitive singular fars, plural før)

  1. drive, ride, tour
  2. vessel
  3. trace, sign

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Declension of far
n5 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative far farið før førini
accusative far farið før førini
dative fari farinum førum førunum
genitive fars farsins fara faranna

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French

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Pronunciation

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far breton aux pruneaux (far breton with prunes)

Noun

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far m (plural fars)

  1. a traditional Breton cake
    Synonym: far breton

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Uralic *ponče (tail).[1] Older hypotheses have attempted to derive far from Proto-Uralic *pure- (back, rear) or Proto-Finno-Ugric *perä (back, rear).

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Noun

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far (plural farok)

  1. buttock, posterior
    Synonyms: fenék, ülep, hátsó, segg
  2. stern (ship)
  3. tail, rear (vehicle)

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative far farok
accusative fart farokat
dative farnak faroknak
instrumental farral farokkal
causal-final farért farokért
translative farrá farokká
terminative farig farokig
essive-formal farként farokként
essive-modal
inessive farban farokban
superessive faron farokon
adessive farnál faroknál
illative farba farokba
sublative farra farokra
allative farhoz farokhoz
elative farból farokból
delative farról farokról
ablative fartól faroktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
faré faroké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
faréi farokéi
Possessive forms of far
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. farom faraim
2nd person sing. farod faraid
3rd person sing. fara farai
1st person plural farunk faraink
2nd person plural farotok faraitok
3rd person plural faruk faraik

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References

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  1. ^ Aikio, Ante (= Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte). “Notes on the development of some consonant clusters in Hungarian”. In: Sampsa Holopainen & Janne Saarikivi (eds.), Περὶ ὀρθότητος ἐτύμων. Uusiutuva uralilainen etymologia, Uralica Helsingiensia 11, 2018, pp. 77–90.

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  • far in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Norse fǫr (journey).

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Noun

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far n (genitive singular fars, nominative plural för)

  1. passage, ride
    Má ég fá far?
    Can I get a ride?
  2. imprint, trace
  3. character, personality

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    Declension of far
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative far farið för förin
accusative far farið för förin
dative fari farinu förum förunum
genitive fars farsins fara faranna

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Italian

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Verb

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far (apocopated)

  1. Apocopic form of fare

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *fars (flour, grain),[1] possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰars-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (spike, prickle); compare Welsh bara (bread), English barley, Serbo-Croatian brȁšno (flour), Albanian bar (grass), Ancient Greek Φηρῶν (Phērôn, plant deity).

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The nominative-accusative singular form scans as a long syllable in Ovid (cited below). Therefore, some sources mark the vowel in this form as long (fār), but an alternative explanation is that despite being spelled with a single letter r, this word form was pronounced with the underlying geminate /rr/ of the stem when the following word started with a vowel.[2]

Noun

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far n (genitive farris); third declension

  1. farro, a type of hulled wheat. (Most likely emmer (Triticum dicoccum or Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccon) but often mistranslated as spelt (Triticum spelta)) [3] [4]
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.338:
      Ante, deos homini quod conciliare valeret, / far erat et puri lucida mica salis.
      Of old, the means to win the goodwill of the gods were far and sparkling grains of pure salt.
      ― Fay Glinister, “Festus and Ritual Foodstuffs” p. 220
  2. coarse meal; grits

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Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative far farra
Genitive farris farrum
Dative farrī farribus
Accusative far farra
Ablative farre farribus
Vocative far farra

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Descendants

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  • Franco-Provençal: far
  • Galician: farelo
  • Italian: farro
  • Portuguese: farelo
  • Sicilian: farru
  • English: far

References

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 201-2
  2. ^ Charles Edwin Bennett (1907) The Latin Language: A Historical Outline of Its Sounds, Inflections, and Syntax, page 118
  3. ^ Thompson, D'Arcy W. “Wheat in Antiquity.” The Classical Review, vol. 60, no. 3, 1946, pp. 120–122. JSTOR. Accessed 6 June 2021.
  4. ^ Glinister, Fay “Festus and Ritual Foodstuffs.” Eruditio Antiqua 6 (2014), pp. 215-227.

Maltese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Arabic فَأْر (faʔr, mouse).

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far m (plural firien or fariet, feminine fara)

  1. rat
    Synonym: ġurdien
  2. Y-shaped frame of a slingshot
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Etymology 2

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Root
f-w-r
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From Arabic فارَ (fāra).

Verb

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far (imperfect jfur, verbal noun fawran)

  1. to overflow
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    Conjugation of far
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m fort fort far forna fortu faru
f faret
imperfect m nfur tfur jfur nfuru tfuru jfuru
f tfur
imperative fur furu

Middle English

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Noun

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far

  1. Alternative form of fare

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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Derived from Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (father). Compare longer version fader.

Noun

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far m (definite singular faren, indefinite plural fedre, definite plural fedrene)

  1. father
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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far

  1. imperative of fare

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (father). Compare longer version fader.

Noun

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far m (definite singular faren, indefinite plural fedrar, definite plural fedrane)

  1. father
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Etymology 2

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From Old Norse far, from Proto-Germanic *farą.

Noun

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far n (definite singular faret, indefinite plural far, definite plural fara)

  1. trace, track
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Etymology 3

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Verb

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far

  1. imperative of fara

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Occitan

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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far m (plural fars)

  1. (nautical) lighthouse

Etymology 2

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Verb

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far

  1. Alternative form of faire

Old English

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Verb

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far

  1. singular imperative of faran

Old Irish

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Determiner

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far

  1. Alternative form of for

Old Norse

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Proto-Norse *ᚠᚨᚱᚨ (*fara), from Proto-Germanic *farą.

Noun

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far n (genitive fars, plural fǫr)

  1. a means of passage
  2. passage
  3. trace, print, track
  4. life, conduct, behaviour
  5. state, condition
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Descendants
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  • Icelandic: far
  • Faroese: far
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: far
  • Norwegian Bokmål: far

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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far

  1. second-person singular imperative active of fara

References

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  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic[2], Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Occitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin facere.

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Verb

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far

  1. to do
    • c. 1130, Jaufre Rudel, canso:
      Dieus que fetz tot qunt ve ni vai / E formet sest'amor de lonh / Mi don poder [...].
      God, who makes everything that comes or goes and who created this distant love, give me power.

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Old Swedish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From (eastern) Old Norse *fāʀ (Old West Norse fær), from Proto-Germanic *fahaz.

Noun

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fār n

  1. sheep

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin Pharus, French phare.

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Noun

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far n (plural faruri)

  1. lighthouse
  2. (figuratively) beacon
  3. car headlight

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Romansch

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin fāre.

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far (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader)

  1. to do
  2. to make

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology 1

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Possibly from Middle Irish i mbaile (where) from Old Irish baile (place) (with later early modern forms like a bhail a bhfuil, bhal a bhfuil) or from Old Irish fail (where), perhaps influenced by mar (as, like), related to Irish mar (where).

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far

  1. where (relative/non-interrogative)
    Bha e cunnartach far an robh am balach ag iasgach.It was dangerous where the boy was fishing.

References

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  • R. A. Breatnach (1973) “The relative adverb mar a”, in Celtica, volume 10, pages 167–170:As regards Sc. far a, all I can suggest is that the initial f- is possibly to be referred to the /v-/ variants instanced among the M.Ir. forms of baile i listed above. But fail may be a more likely influence;
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 baile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “? 1 bail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Etymology 2

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Clipping of de bhàrr

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Preposition

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far (+ genitive)

  1. (down) from, off
    thuit e far eichhe fell off a horse

Spanish

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Verb

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far (first-person singular present fo, first-person singular preterite fe, past participle fado)

  1. Obsolete spelling of hacer.

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Swedish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Short for fader, from Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (father).

Noun

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far c

  1. father
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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far

  1. inflection of fara:
    1. imperative
    2. present indicative

Etymology 3

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Short for farled.

Noun

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far n

  1. (nautical, Finland) Short for farled.

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Turkish

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from French phare.

Noun

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far (definite accusative farı, plural farlar)

  1. headlight

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from French fard.

Noun

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far (definite accusative farı, plural farlar)

  1. eye shadow
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Inflection
Nominative far
Definite accusative farı
Singular Plural
Nominative far farlar
Definite accusative farı farları
Dative fara farlara
Locative farda farlarda
Ablative fardan farlardan
Genitive farın farların
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular farım farlarım
2nd singular farın farların
3rd singular farı farları
1st plural farımız farlarımız
2nd plural farınız farlarınız
3rd plural farları farları
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular farımı farlarımı
2nd singular farını farlarını
3rd singular farını farlarını
1st plural farımızı farlarımızı
2nd plural farınızı farlarınızı
3rd plural farlarını farlarını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular farıma farlarıma
2nd singular farına farlarına
3rd singular farına farlarına
1st plural farımıza farlarımıza
2nd plural farınıza farlarınıza
3rd plural farlarına farlarına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular farımda farlarımda
2nd singular farında farlarında
3rd singular farında farlarında
1st plural farımızda farlarımızda
2nd plural farınızda farlarınızda
3rd plural farlarında farlarında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular farımdan farlarımdan
2nd singular farından farlarından
3rd singular farından farlarından
1st plural farımızdan farlarımızdan
2nd plural farınızdan farlarınızdan
3rd plural farlarından farlarından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular farımın farlarımın
2nd singular farının farlarının
3rd singular farının farlarının
1st plural farımızın farlarımızın
2nd plural farınızın farlarınızın
3rd plural farlarının farlarının
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Venetan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin fāre.

Verb

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far

  1. (transitive) to do, to make; to act, operate
  2. (transitive) to study

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Noun

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far (nominative plural fars)

  1. lighthouse

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