farba

See also: farb’ă

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒrbɒ]
• Hyphenation: far‧ba
• Rhymes: -bɒ

Etymology 1

From German Farbe (“colour”).

Noun

farba (plural farbák)

1. (archaic, card games) colour (used only in expressions)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	farba	farbák
accusative	farbát	farbákat
dative	farbának	farbáknak
instrumental	farbával	farbákkal
causal-final	farbáért	farbákért
translative	farbává	farbákká
terminative	farbáig	farbákig
essive-formal	farbaként	farbákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	farbában	farbákban
superessive	farbán	farbákon
adessive	farbánál	farbáknál
illative	farbába	farbákba
sublative	farbára	farbákra
allative	farbához	farbákhoz
elative	farbából	farbákból
delative	farbáról	farbákról
ablative	farbától	farbáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	farbáé	farbáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	farbáéi	farbákéi

Possessive forms of farba
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	farbám	farbáim
2nd person sing.	farbád	farbáid
3rd person sing.	farbája	farbái
1st person plural	farbánk	farbáink
2nd person plural	farbátok	farbáitok
3rd person plural	farbájuk	farbáik

Derived terms

Expressions

• elő a farbával

 

Etymology 2

far +‎ -ba

Noun

farba

1. illative singular of far

Further reading

• farba 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
• farba in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Farbe. Doublet of barwa.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈfar.ba/

• (Masovia):
  • (Far Masovian) IPA^(key): /ˈfar.ba/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -arba
• Syllabification: far‧ba

Noun

farba f (diminutive farbka)

1. paint (substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color to an object or surface to which it has been applied)
2. (hunting) blood of a game animal

   Synonyms: jucha, posoka

3. (Far Masovian) animal blood

Declension

Declension of farba

	singular	plural
nominative	farba	farby
genitive	farby	farb
dative	farbie	farbom
accusative	farbę	farby
instrumental	farbą	farbami
locative	farbie	farbach
vocative	farbo	farby

Derived terms

• farbować
• pofarbować
• przefarbować
• zafarbować

 

Further reading

• farba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• farba in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “farba”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 107

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Farbe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fâːrba/
• Hyphenation: far‧ba

Noun

fȃrba f (Cyrillic spelling фа̑рба)

1. paint
2. color, tint
3. dye, colourant

Declension

Declension of farba

	singular	plural
nominative	fȃrba	farbe
genitive	farbe	fȃrbī
dative	farbi	farbama
accusative	farbu	farbe
vocative	farbo	farbe
locative	farbi	farbama
instrumental	farbom	farbama

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from German Farbe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfarba]

• Audio:

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Noun

farba f (related adjective farbový, diminutive farbička)

1. color, colour
2. dye

Declension

Declension of farba (pattern žena)

	singular	plural
nominative	farba	farby
genitive	farby	farieb
dative	farbe	farbám
accusative	farbu	farby
locative	farbe	farbách
instrumental	farbou	farbami

Derived terms

• farebný, dvojfarebný

Further reading

• “farba”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024