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farba

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See also: farb’ă and farbą

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
More information singular, plural ...
More information possessor, single possession ...
Derived terms
Expressions
  • elő a farbával

Etymology 2

far + -ba

Noun

farba

  1. illative singular of far

Further reading

  • farba in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (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).
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Polish

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Etymology

Borrowed from German Farbe. Doublet of barwa.

Pronunciation

 
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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
    1. (Far Masovian, Kielce) animal blood
      Memu kóniowi puscono farbę.My horse spilled blood.

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • farba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • farba in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894), “farba”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 107
  • Władysław Siarkowski (1878), “farba”, in “Materiały do etnografii ludu polskiego z okolic Kielc”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowej (in Polish), volume 2, chapter 3, Krakow: Komisyja Antropologiczna Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, page 246
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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

More information singular, plural ...

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from German Farbe.

Pronunciation

Noun

farba f (relational adjective farbový, diminutive farbička)

  1. color, colour
  2. dye

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

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, 2003–2025
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