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See also: Appendix:Variations of "fa"

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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Farsi, from Persian فارسی (fârsi), from Arabic فارسي (fārisiyy).

Symbol

fa

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Persian terms

English

Alternative forms

• fah

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑː

Etymology 1

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English fa (“fourth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian fa in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin famulī (“servants”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

Noun

fa (plural fas)

1. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing the Arrival of an Irish Gentleman, with very extraordinary Adventures which ensued at the Inn”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book X, pages 11–12:

     And now Mrs. Waters (for we muſt confeſs ſhe was in the ſame Bed) being, I ſuppoſe, awakened from her Sleep, and ſeeing two Men fighting in her Bed-chamber, began to ſcream in the moſt violent Manner, crying out Murder! Robbery! and more frequently Rape! which laſt, ſome, perhaps, may wonder ſhe ſhould mention, who do not conſider that theſe Words of Exclamation are uſed by Ladies in a Fright, as Fa, la, la, ra, da, &c. are in Muſic, only as the Vehicles of Sound, and without any fixed Ideas.

Derived terms

sol-fa

Translations

fourth note of a major scale

Arabic: فَا m (fā) Basque: fa (eu) Czech: fa (cs) Dutch: fa (nl) m Finnish: fa (fi) French: fa (fr) m Galician: fa (gl) m Georgian: ფა (ka) (pa) Hindi: म (hi) (ma) Hungarian: fá (hu) Italian: fa (it) m Japanese: ファ (ja) (fa) Korean: 파 (ko) (pa) Latvian: fa (lv) m Macedonian: фа (fa) Russian: фа (ru) n (fa) Spanish: fa (es) Thai: ฟา (th) (faa)

See also

musical notes

• do
• la
• mi
• re
• so
• ti

Etymology 2

Preposition

fa

1. (informal) Alternative spelling of for.
   • 2000, Requiem for a Dream, spoken by Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto):

     Do ya wanna be a dope fiend fa krist’s sake?

Derived terms

• fa shizzle

See also

other terms with "fa", etymologically unrelated

• fa cai
• fa jin
• fa-la
• fi fa
• Pha̍k-fa-sṳ

Anagrams

• AF, Af, af

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Noun

fa m (plural fas)

1. (music) fa (fourth note of diatonic scale)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fa

1. third-person singular present indicative of fer

Preposition

fa

1. ago

   fa molts anys...

   many years ago...

Interjection

fa

1. (dialectal) a particle used in some dialects to emphasize a negative sentence

   Fa que no es veu!

   it’s obvious!

   (literally, “it does that it's not seen!”)

Chichewa

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

Verb

-fa (infinitive kufá)

1. to die
2. to have a stroke
3. to be infertile
4. to spend or give out money

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -fera
  • Causative: -fetsa
  • Negative: -safa
  • Other formations: -fa mutu (“to be amazed, to be stupefied”)

• Nominal derivations:
  • imfa (“death”)
  • kuloŵa kufa (“the practice of making a widow sleep with a man to put her former husband's soul at rest”)

References

• Steven Paas (2016), Oxford Chichewa-English/English - Chichewa Dictionary‎, Oxford University Press, page 138

Czech

Noun

fa

1. abbreviation of firma

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fa
• Rhymes: -aː

Noun

fa m (plural fa's, diminutive faatje n)

1. (music) fa (fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) musical note)
2. (music) F (the musical clef or key)

Derived terms

• fasleutel

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

fa m (plural fa)

1. (music) fa, the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note 'F'

Derived terms

• clef de fa

Further reading

• “fa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Noun

fa m (plural fas)

1. (music) fa (musical note)
2. (music) F (the musical note or key)

See also

musical solfège notes: notas musicaisedit

• dó
• fa
• la
• mi
• re
• si
• sol

Gothic

Romanization

fa

1. romanization of 𐍆𐌰

Gwere

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-kúa

Verb

-fa (infinitive kufa)

1. to die
2. to be dysfunctional

Derived terms

• -fa kimigiriri (“to endure silenty”)
• -fiiriza (“to deprive, to deny”)
• -fiirwa (“to suffer loss”)
• -fiisya (“to be bereaved”)

References

• Lugwere Dictionary‎, SIL International, (Can we date this quote?)

Hadza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa/, [fʷa]

Verb

fa

1. to drink