filar

English

Etymology

From Latin filum (“a thread”).

Adjective

filar (comparative more filar, superlative most filar)

1. Of or relating to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view.

   a filar microscope

   a filar micrometer

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “filar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• flair, frail

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Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin filare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fiˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [fiˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

filar (first-person singular present filo, first-person singular preterite filí, past participle filat)

1. (transitive) to spin (a thread)
2. (transitive) to suss out

Related terms

• fil

Further reading

• “filar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “filar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “filar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “filar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Polish

Etymology

From Latin pilare, from pila (“column”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lar/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

filar m inan

1. pillar

Declension

Declension of filar

	singular	plural
nominative	filar	filary
genitive	filaru/filara	filarów
dative	filarowi	filarom
accusative	filar	filary
instrumental	filarem	filarami
locative	filarze	filarach
vocative	filarze	filary

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

From earlier filhar (“to seize”), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.ˈla(ʁ)/

Verb

1. (transitive) to grab; to seize; to catch; to take hold of

   Synonym: agarrar

2. (Brazil, informal) to get for free
3. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Spanish

Etymology

From filo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiˈlaɾ/ [fiˈlaɾ]

Verb

1. (colloquial) to cotton on, be onto

Further reading

• “filar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Noun

filar

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of fil

Verb

filar

1. (deprecated template usage) present tense of fila.