fax

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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Fala with x as a placeholder.

Symbol

fax

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Fala.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Fala terms

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: făks, IPA^(key): /fæks/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Homophone: facts (informal US and Canada pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -æks

Etymology 1

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

Noun

fax (usually uncountable, plural faxes)

1. (obsolete or UK dialectal) The hair of the head.
2. (obsolete and derisively) The face.
   • 1710, Gawin Douglas, Virgil's Aeneis, translated into Scottish verse, page 253:

     The fillok hyr deformyt fax wald haue a fair face.

Note

The sense of face, perhaps, could be a misunderstanding of the obsolete word as preserved in poetic phrases. Some other Scots examples in 16th century would admit of a similar interpretation.

Derived terms

• faxed
• Fairfax
• Halifax

Etymology 2

Clipping of facsimile, first attested 1979.

Noun

fax (plural faxes or (rare) faxxes)

2. Ellipsis of fax machine (“the device for faxing; the medium of communication that it provides”).

   OK, now take it down the hall to the fax.

   You can send it via email or fax. You can use an online fax service where you upload a PDF and then send it to a fax number.

   • 2023 October 29, Zoe Williams, “‘An ironic, self-deprecating metrosexual’: how Matthew Perry captured the spirit of the age”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The details of his [Matthew Perrry's] relationship with Julia Roberts are so 1990s, it is unreal: he wooed her by fax (yes, kids, this was a thing).

3. A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.

Derived terms

• black fax
• cryptofax
• e-fax
• faxback
• fax bomb
• fax democracy
• faxlore
• fax modem
• fax number

Descendants

• → Japanese: ファックス

Translations

machine for sending or receiving documents telephonically — see fax machine

document transmitted by telephone

• Albanian: faks (sq) m
• Arabic: فَاكْس m (fāks)
• Armenian: ֆաքս (hy) (fakʻs), հեռապատճեն (hy) (heṙapatčen)
• Azerbaijani: faks
• Belarusian: факс m (faks)
• Bengali: ফ্যাক্স (bn) (phêkśo)
• Bulgarian: факс m (faks)
• Burmese: ပုံတူညီသော (pumtu-nyisau:), ဖက်စ် (hpakc)
• Catalan: fax (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傳真 / 传真 (zh) (chuánzhēn)

• Czech: fax (cs) m
• Danish: fax (da) c, telefax c
• Dutch: fax (nl) m
• Estonian: faks
• Finnish: faksi (fi)
• French: fax (fr) m, télécopie (fr) f
• Galician: fax m
• Georgian: ფაქსი (paksi)
• German: Fax (de) n

  Alemannic German: fax

• Greek: φαξ (el) n (fax)
• Hebrew: פַקְס (he) m (faks)
• Hindi: फ़ैक्स m (faiks), फैक्स m (phaiks)
• Hungarian: fax (hu)
• Icelandic: fax (is) n, símbréf n
• Ido: faxuro (io)
• Indonesian: faks (id)
• Italian: fax (it) m, telefax (it) m, telecopia (it) f, telecopiatura (it) f
• Japanese: ファックス (ja) (fakkusu), ファクシミリ (ja) (fakushimiri)
• Karelian: faksu
• Kazakh: факс (faks)
• Khmer: ទូរសារ (tuu saa)
• Korean: 팩스 (ko) (paekseu), 팩시밀리 (ko) (paeksimilli)
• Kyrgyz: факс (faks)
• Lao: ການຄັດສຳເນົາ (kān khat sam nao), ແພັກ (phæk)
• Latin: facsimilis m
• Latvian: fakss m, faksimils m
• Lithuanian: faksas m
• Luxembourgish: fax
• Macedonian: факс m (faks)
• Malay: faks (ms)
• Mongolian: факс (mn) (faks)
• Norman: fax m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: faks m, telefaks m

  Nynorsk: faks m, telefaks m

• Persian: دورنگار (fa) (dornegâr), فاکس (fa) (fâks)
• Polish: fax (pl) m, faks (pl) m, telefaks (pl) m, telefax (pl) m
• Portuguese: fax (pt)
• Romanian: fax n
• Russian: факс (ru) m (faks), факси́миле (ru) n (faksímile), телефа́кс (ru) m (telefáks)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: факс m

  Latin: fax m, faks (sh) m

• Slovak: fax (sk) m
• Slovene: fax m
• Spanish: fax (es) m, telefax m, telefacsímil m
• Swahili: faksi (sw)
• Swedish: fax (sv) c, telefax (sv) c
• Tajik: факс (faks)
• Thai: แฟกซ์ (th) (fɛ̀k), แฟ็กซ์ (th) (fɛ̀k), โทรสาร (th) (too-rá-sǎan)
• Turkish: faks (tr), belgeç (tr), belgegeçer (tr)
• Turkmen: faks
• Ukrainian: факс m (faks)
• Urdu: نسخۂ کامل, فاکس (fāks)
• Uzbek: faks (uz)
• Venda: fekisi
• Vietnamese: fax (vi), điện thư
• Xibe: ᠠᡞᡫᡝ
  ᡝᡞ
  ᠠᡞᡣᡝᠰ (aife ei aikes)
• Yiddish: פֿאַקס (faks)

Verb

fax (third-person singular simple present faxes or (rare) faxxes, present participle faxing or (rare) faxxing, simple past and past participle faxed or (rare) faxxed)

2. To send a document via a fax machine.
   • 1990, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, volume 14, page 82:

     Hands trembling with excitement and impatience, I faxxed my credit history to Jerry Raskin, the real estate agent listed, and received an appointment to view the place.

   • 1991, Jury Verdicts Weekly, volume 35, page 10:

     Plaintiff contented that in a game show in London, England, in January of 1988, Mr. Steinberg entered into an oral agreement with Atari representatives to become the exclusive distributor of Atari Games’ products; that the proposed agreement was dictated at this meeting; and that within two days Mr. Steinberg sent defendant a faxxed confirmation of this oral arrangement reached at the London trade show.

   • 1992, Montana National Forest Management Act of 1991: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks and Forests of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session on S. 1696; October 22, 1991, Washington: United States Government Publishing Office, →ISBN, pages 140–141:

     SENATOR BAUCUS, IT IS THE THIRD STATEMENT, YOUR CHALLENGE, THAT HAS LED TO THE MOST FRUSTRATION FOR THE PEOPLE I AM REPRESENTING TODAY. WE TOOK YOU AT YOUR WORD AND HAVE RALLIED AND CONVOYED TO MAKE YOU AWARE OF US, TELEPHONED, WRITTEN LETTERS, FAXXED YOU, AND SPOKE WITH YOU PERSONALLY TO LET YOU KNOW HOW WE FEEL.

   • 1993, H. Bruce Franklin, M.I.A., or, Mythmaking in America, revised and expanded paperback edition, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 194:

     A few of the corporations involved have frankly acknowledged the roadblock: their own fear of the POW/MIA movement. Some companies scheduled for a trade mission to Vietnam dropped out after receiving a faxxed message from the National P.O.W. Strike Force summed up by its leader: “We will go out of our way to destroy your company because you want to do business with filthy Communists who are holding American prisoners.”

   • 1993, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN, page 737, column 1:

     Thanks to Franz Amador and Tony Barrett for helpful discussions. We gratefully acknowledge Oren Etzioni’s emergency faxxing service. This research was funded in part by National Science Foundation Grant IRI-8957302, Office of Naval Research Grant 90-J-1904, and a grant from the Xerox corporation.

   • 1994, Olga Elena Mattei, “Part One: Poetry [§] The Angel of the Millennium (Accident at the Nuclear Plant)”, in Roberta Fernández, editor, In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States, Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, page 139:

     His logistic: to dress in the skin of the worker, / the technician, the programmer, / infiltrating himself in their milieu, / their offices, their plants, & their boards, / a bug in their systems, / crossing up the controls and the panels, / the wiring, the wave lengths, / the faxxing of messages, the spy-satellites / & their receptors, / changing their conceptions, their charts.

   • 1995, Lucha Corpi, Cactus Blood: A Mystery Novel, Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, page 151:

     He already has the copy of the other fingerprints that Leo faxxed to him for comparison.

   • 1995 May 17, Ken Luongo, “Comments on GAO Report on CTR Program Concerning MPCA (note to Ken Sanders)”, in Weapons of Mass Destruction: Reducing the Threat From the Former Soviet Union: An Update (United States General Accounting Office, Report to Congressional Requesters), published June 1995, “Background”, page 76:

     On May 12, 1995, Julie Hirshen (GAO) faxxed a draft portion of the GAO Cooperative Threat Reduction report dealing with MPCA.

   • 1996, Middle East Peace Process: Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session; September 20, 1995, Washington: United States Government Publishing Office, →ISBN, page 25:

     [162] / Faxxing from Israel / 03-695-0132 / [163] / Calling from abroad / 972-3-695-6868 / Faxxing from abroad / 972-3-695-0132

   • 1997 May 18, Mike Story, “Confirmed....Pilot Modem Has FAX capability!!”, in alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot (Usenet):

     Please advise how one faxxes from the Pilot Pro. Faxxing would greatly enhance my use of the Pilot. / Thanks!

   • 1999, Appendix E: Response to Public Comments: Final Environmental Impact Statement For Open Road and Open Motorized Trail Analysis (Motorized Road and Trail Travel Plan):

     Please have Georgia Dixon of Sen Craig’s office have a current copy of the Canadian Endangered Species list faxxed to her from Ottawa, Canada.

Derived terms

• faxable
• refax

Translations

send document

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

  Mandarin: 發傳真 / 发传真 (fā chuánzhēn)

• Czech: faxovat
• Danish: faxe
• Dutch: faxen (nl)
• Finnish: faksata (fi)
• French: faxer (fr), oïn
• German: faxen (de), fernkopieren
• Greek: τηλεομοιοτυπώ (el) (tileomoiotypó), στέλνω φαξ (stélno fax)
• Icelandic: faxa (is)
• Ido: faxar (io)
• Italian: faxare (it), telecopiare (it)
• Japanese: ファクスを送る (fakkusu-o okuru)
• Mongolian: факсдах (mn) (faksdax)
• Norman: faxer
• Persian: دورنگاریدن (dôrnegâridan), فکس کردن (faks kardan)
• Polish: faksować (pl), przefaksować
• Portuguese: mandar/enviar por fax
• Russian: посыла́ть факс (posylátʹ faks), передава́ть факс (peredavátʹ faks)
• Spanish: faxear (es)
• Swedish: faxa (sv)

Etymology 3

Formed with -x from facts; the pronunciation of facts and fax is identical in certain varieties of English.

Noun

fax pl (plural only)

1. (informal) Nonstandard form of facts.

   Synonym: trufax

Interjection

fax

1. (informal) Alternative form of facts (“used to express agreement”).

   Synonyms: fax, no printer; trufax; tru dat; true dat; true that

See also

• 📠

Chinese

Etymology

From English fax.

Pronunciation 1

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fek¹ si²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fek¹ si²
    • Yale: fēk sí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fek⁷ si²
    • Guangdong Romanization: fég¹ xi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɛːk̚⁵ siː³⁵/

Noun

fax

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) fax (document) (Classifier: 張／张 c; 份 c)

   fax機／fax机 [Cantonese]  ―  fek¹ si² gei¹ [Jyutping]  ―  fax machine

Pronunciation 2

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fek¹ si² / fek¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fek¹ si² / fek¹
    • Yale: fēk sí / fēk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fek⁷ si² / fek⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: fég¹ xi² / fég¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɛːk̚⁵ siː³⁵/, /fɛːk̚⁵/

Verb

fax

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to fax

References

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfaks]

Noun

fax m inan

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

Declension

Declension of fax (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	fax	faxy
genitive	faxu	faxů
dative	faxu	faxům
accusative	fax	faxy
vocative	faxe	faxy
locative	faxu	faxech
instrumental	faxem	faxy

Related terms

• faxovat

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑks/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fax
• Rhymes: -ɑks

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English fax (“a fax machine; to fax”).

Noun

fax m (plural faxen, diminutive faxje n)

1. fax

Synonyms

• telefacsimile
• telefax

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fax

1. inflection of faxen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faks/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

fax m (invariable)

1. fax

   Synonym: télécopie

2. fax machine

   Synonyms: télécopieur, télécopieuse

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Verb

fax

1. singular imperative of faxen

Hungarian

Etymology

From English (tele)fax, from facsimile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒks]
• Rhymes: -ɒks

Noun

fax (countable and uncountable, plural faxok)

1. (historical) the procedure of faxing (sending a document via a fax machine)
2. (historical) fax, ellipsis of faxkészülék (“fax machine”)
3. (historical) ellipsis of faxüzenet (“fax message/document”)
4. (historical) ellipsis of faxszám (“fax number”)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	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 → elfaxol

Compound words

• faxberendezés
• faxgép
• faxkezelő
• faxkészülék
• faxpapír
• faxszám
• faxszolgáltatás
• faxüzenet
• faxváltás
• körfax

Further reading

• fax 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).

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faxs/
• IPA^(key): /faks/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Norse fax (“mane”).

Noun

fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)

1. mane (of a horse)

Declension

Declension of fax (neuter)

	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

Borrowed from English fax, from facsimile, from Latin.

Noun

fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)

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

   Synonym: símbréf

2. fax machine

   Synonyms: faxtæki, bréfsími

Declension

Declension of fax (neuter)

	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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

fax m (invariable)

1. fax
2. fax machine

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwok(ʷ)- > Proto-Italic *fwak(ʷ)-. Potential cognates include facētus and Lithuanian žvakė (“candle”). Compare also Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌂𐌄 (face, “torch (?)”). Schrijver argues the -a- can be explained as going back to Proto-Indo-European *o, with unrounding after *w in an originally open syllable (as in the oblique case-forms). According to De Vaan, even if the Latin and Lithuanian words are cognate, the root structure is more consistent with a later loanword rather than a Proto-Indo-European formation.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfaks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaks]

Noun

fax f (genitive facis); third declension

1. torch, firebrand
2. fireball, comet
3. cause of ruin, incitement
   • Florus, Epitome of Roman History 1.5-6:

     Igitur statim prima iuventutis face patruum ab arce deturbat, avum reponit.

     • Translation by Edward Seymour Forster

       Romulus, therefore, in the first ardour of youth, expelled his uncle from the citadel and restored his grandfather.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fax	facēs
genitive	facis	facum
dative	facī	facibus
accusative	facem	facēs
ablative	face	facibus
vocative	fax	facēs

Derived terms

• facella
  • → Italian: facella
• facula

Descendants

• → Italian: face

See also

• torris
• titio

Further reading

• “fax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “fax”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• "fax", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fax”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “fax”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fax”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 495

Middle English

Alternative forms

• væx (early)

Etymology

From Old English feax, from Proto-West Germanic *fahs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faks/

Noun

fax (plural faxes)

1. The hair of the head.

Derived terms

• faxwax

Descendants

• English: fax (obsolete)
• Scots: fax

References

• “fax, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

Noun

fax m (plural fax)

1. (Jersey) fax

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fahsą, 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	fax	faxins	faxa	faxanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: fax
• Faroese: faks
• Norwegian Bokmål: faks
• → Scots: fax (foam-topped wave, swell)

Further reading

• “fax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “fax”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• "fax", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fax”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fax”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fax.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaks/
• Rhymes: -aks
• Syllabification: fax

Noun

fax m inan

1. (telephony) alternative spelling of faks

   Synonym: telefax

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

Further reading

• fax in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fax in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfaks/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfaks/

Noun

fax m (plural faxes)

1. fax (document transmitted by telephone)

Further reading

• “fax”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “fax”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fax.

Noun

fax n (plural faxuri)

1. fax

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	fax	faxul		faxuri	faxurile
genitive-dative	fax	faxului		faxuri	faxurilor
vocative	faxule			faxurilor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɡs/ [ˈfaɣ̞s]
• Rhymes: -aɡs
• Syllabification: fax

Noun

fax m (plural fax)

1. fax

Further reading

• “fax”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Anagrams

• xfa

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Homophone: facks

Noun

fax c or n

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

Declension

Declension of fax 1

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	fax	fax
	definite	faxen	faxens
plural	indefinite	faxar	faxars
	definite	faxarna	faxarnas

Declension of fax

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	fax	fax
	definite	faxet	faxets
plural	indefinite	fax	fax
	definite	faxen	faxens

Synonyms

• telefax

Related terms

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

References

• “fax”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *vaːꟲ (“sky; weather”). Cognate with Thai ฟ้า (fáa), Northern Thai ᨼ᩶ᩣ, Lao ຟ້າ (fā), Lü ᦝᦱᧉ (faa²), Shan ၽႃႉ (phâ̰a) or ၾႃႉ (fâ̰a), Ahom 𑜇𑜠 (pha), 𑜇𑜡 (phā), 𑜇𑜨𑜠 (phoa), 𑜇𑜨𑜡 (phoā) or 𑜇𑜞𑜠 (phra).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /fa˦˨/
• Tone numbers: fa⁴
• Hyphenation: fax

Noun

fax (Sawndip forms 𭱇 or 𫯨 or 𪥉, 1957–1982 spelling faч)

1. (dialectal, including Longzhou) sky

   Synonym: mbwn