faz

See also: Faz

Translingual

Symbol

faz

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Northwestern Fars terms

Bouyei

Etymology

Cognate to Zhuang faz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa˩/

Noun

faz

1. iron

Galician

Verb

faz

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of fazer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Northern Kurdish

Noun

faz f

1. stage (phase)

Old Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhad͡z/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin facies.

Noun

faz f (plural faces)

1. face

Descendants

• Spanish: haz, faz

Etymology 2

Verb

faz

1. second-person singular imperative of facer

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfa(j)s/ [ˈfa(ɪ̯)s]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfa(j)s/ [ˈfa(ɪ̯)s]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈfa(j)ʃ/ [ˈfa(ɪ̯)ʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfaʃ/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -as, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -aʃ, (Brazil) -ajs, (Rio de Janeiro) -ajʃ
• Homophone: fás
• Hyphenation: faz

Verb

faz

1. inflection of fazer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaθ/ [ˈfaθ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈfas/ [ˈfas] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aθ (Spain)
• Rhymes: -as (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: faz

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish faz, from Latin faciēs. Doublet of facies and haz (“face”).

Noun

faz f (plural faces)

1. (archaic, poetic) face (surface)
   • 1986, Watchtower Society, Canten Alabanzas a Jehová, 57:

     pues ellos andarán en el brillo de tu faz, dondequiera sirvan felices serán.

     for they will walk in the brightness of your face, wherever they serve, happy they'll be.

   ¡Os borraré de la faz de la Tierra!

   I shall wipe you all off the face of the Earth!

   Synonyms: cara, rostro, haz

2. (geometry) face (of a polyhedron or solid)
3. (anatomy) forehead, the top part of the face

   Synonym: frente

4. (geography) inland, interior, middle

   Synonym: interior

Derived terms

• antifaz

See also

• acera
• superficie

Etymology 2

Verb

faz

1. second-person singular imperative of facer

Further reading

• “faz”, 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

Turkish

Etymology

From French phase.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑz/

Noun

faz (definite accusative fazı, plural fazlar)

1. phase

   Synonym: evre

Declension

Declension of faz

	singular	plural
nominative	faz	fazlar
definite accusative	fazı	fazları
dative	faza	fazlara
locative	fazda	fazlarda
ablative	fazdan	fazlardan
genitive	fazın	fazların

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /fa˧˩/
• Tone numbers: fa²
• Hyphenation: faz

Etymology 1

Noun

faz (Sawndip form ⿰糹伐, 1957–1982 spelling faƨ)

1. Zhuang brocade

Etymology 2

Noun

faz (Sawndip forms ⿰衤伐 or ⿺尾⿱天衣, 1957–1982 spelling faƨ)

1. (dialectal) cotton-wadded quilt

Etymology 3

Cognate to Bouyei faz.

Noun

faz (Sawndip forms 鍅 or 𰼦, 1957–1982 spelling faƨ)

1. iron

   Synonyms: diet, lek, lik