far

Inherited from Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɑː/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɑɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

far (comparative farther or further, superlative farthest or furthest or farthermost or furthermost)

1. Distant; remote in space.

   He went to a far land.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 9:6:

     And they went to Ioshua vnto the campe at Gilgal, and said vnto him, and to the men of Israel, Wee be come from a farre countrey: Now therefore make ye a league with vs.

   • 2009, Graham Huggan, Ian Law, Racism Postcolonialism Europe, page 1:

     Tsiolkas's Europe, as voraciously predatory as his own undead protagonist, is a far cry from the fount of idealistic humanism dreamed up by generations of both pre- and post-Enlightenment politicians and philosophers, a Europe defined by its durable capacity for civility in an otherwise barbarous world.

2. Remote in time.

   the far future

3. Long. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
   • 2011, Peggy Woods, Ramblings from a Soul, page 42:

     I have such a long way to go but yet I have come such a far piece already

4. More remote of two.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.

   See those two mountains? The ogre lives on the far one.

   He moved to the far end of the state. She remained at this end.

5. Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.

   They are on the far right on this issue.

   • 2010, William Alexander Patterson, 4th, The City Is served Bartholomew! to the American Prison!, page 118:

     He was withdrawn to such a far degree that it required of Piers and Jude a good deal of occasional conferencing between the two of them, in private.

6. Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
   • 1657, Henry Ainsworth, Zachary Coke, The Art of Logick., page 26:

     As sensible maketh a man differ from a stone, in a far difference; for other Species, as Beasts, have the same difference, but reasonable is the nearest, whereby he differeth from a stone, beasts, and all other things.

   • 1979, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations, Military situation in the Far East - Volume 3, page 1737:

     Is there not a far difference between asking it up and urging it, Mr. Secretary?

   • 2010, Deborah Cartmell, Screen Adaptations: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, page 78:

     The pressbook identifies the film as a 'picturization of Jane Austen's widely read novel' and starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier (based on the theatrical adaptation by Helen Jerome), it is a far remove from adaptations that follow.

   • 2014, Henry Sussman, Playful Intelligence: Digitizing Tradition, page 124:

     This may not be at such a far remove from the endlessly recursive textual inventions of Kafka, Beckett, and Bernhard as it may seem.

7. (programming, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.

   far heap; far memory; far pointer

• (remote in space): distant, far; see also Thesaurus:distant

• (antonym(s) of “remote in space”): close, near; see also Thesaurus:near

far (comparative farther or further, superlative farthest or furthest)

1. To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.

   You have all come far and you will go further.

   He built a time machine and travelled far into the future.

   Over time, his views moved far away from mine.

2. Very much; by a great amount.

   He was far richer than we'd thought.

   The expense far exceeds what I expected.

   I saw a tiny figure far below me.

   • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:

     The Reds were on the back foot early on when a catalogue of defensive errors led to Ramires giving Chelsea the lead. Jay Spearing conceded possession in midfield and Ramires escaped Jose Enrique far too easily before scoring at the near post with a shot Reina should have saved.

far (third-person singular simple present fars, present participle farring, simple past and past participle farred)

1. (transitive, rare) To send far away.
   • 1864, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis:

     But I wish he'd been farred before he ever came near this house, with his “Please Betty” this, and “Please Betty” that, and drinking up our new milk as if he'd been a cat. I hate such beguiling ways.

   • 1962, Thomas Berger, Reinhart in Love:

     […] so Joe come to me and he uz sore as a boil and said you goddam prevert, I don't want no twenny-two-year-old mechanic who still pulls his pood in the toilet, and farred me.

From Latin far. Doublet of farro.

far (uncountable)

2. Emmer (a type of wheat), especially in the context of Roman use of it.
   • 1756, Aurelius Cornelius Celsus, Medicine: In Eight Books, page 108:

     A cataplasm made from any meal is heating, whether it be of wheat, or of far, or barley, or bitter vetch, ...

   • 1857, John Marius Wilson, The Rural Cyclopedia:

     Almost all the rustic writers agree in this, that far is most proper for wet clay land, and triticum for dry land. 'In wet red clays,' says Cato, 'sow far; and in dry, clean, and open lands, sow triticum.'

   • 1872, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Brides and Bridals, volume 1, page 201:

     Our wedding-cake is the memorial of a practice, that bore a striking resemblance to, if it was not derived from, confarreatio, the form of marriage that had fallen into general disuse amongst the Romans in the time of Tiberius. Taking its name from the cake of far and mola salsa that was broken over the bride's head, confarreatio was attended with an incident that increases its resemblance to the way in which our ancestors used at their weddings objects symbolical of natural plentifulness.

   • 1919, Carl Holliday, Wedding Customs Then and Now, page 32:

     The early Romans broke a cake of far and mola salsa (salted meal) over the bride's head, — a symbol of plentifulness, […]

far (plural fars)

1. (UK, dialect) A litter of piglets; a farrow.

• 'arf, AFR, AFr., ARF, Afr., FRA, Fra, RAF, RFA, arf, fra

Latin Pharus. +

far m

1. lighthouse

Derived from Latin pharus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfar]

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far m (plural fars)

1. lighthouse
2. headlight

• farola

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

Inherited from Latin ferrum.

IPA^(key): /far/

far m (plural fars)

1. (Troyen, Rémois) iron

• Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[2] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[3] (in French), Troyes

far ?

1. fern

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

far

1. Alternative form of fur

Inherited from Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

• IPA^(key): /fɑː/, [fɑ̈ː]
• Rhymes: -aːr

far c (singular definite faren, plural indefinite fædre)

1. father, dad

• fader

• “far” in Den Danske Ordbog

Back-formation from fari (“to do, to make”).

• IPA^(key): [far]

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• Hyphenation: far

far

1. (neologism) by^[1]

   La libro de Johano far Ŝekspiro

   John's book by Shakespeare

   regado de la popolo, far la popolo, kaj por la popolo

   government of the people, by the people, and for the people

   Synonyms: de, fare de

Unofficial. The most common innovative preposition, far is used for some of the functions of the preposition de "of, from, by", which some authors feel is overworked. Useful to distinguish, for example, the owner of a book (de) from the author (far).

Inherited from Old Norse far.

• IPA^(key): /fɛaːɹ/,Fugloy dialect: IPA^(key): [fɛːɹ]
• Rhymes: -ɛaːɹ
• Homophone: fær

far n (genitive singular fars, plural før)

1. drive, ride, tour
2. vessel
3. trace, sign

• IPA^(key): /faʁ/

far m (plural fars)

1. a traditional Breton cake

   Synonym: far breton

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

Inherited from Proto-Uralic *ponče (“tail”).^[1] Older hypotheses have attempted to derive far from Proto-Uralic *pure- (“back, rear”) or Proto-Finno-Ugric *perä (“back, rear”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒr]
• Rhymes: -ɒr

far (plural farok)

1. buttock, posterior

   Synonyms: fenék, ülep, hátsó, segg

2. stern (ship)
3. tail, rear (vehicle)

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	far	farok
accusative	fart	farokat
dative	farnak	faroknak
instrumental	farral	farokkal
causal-final	farért	farokért
translative	farrá	farokká
terminative	farig	farokig
essive-formal	farként	farokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	farban	farokban
superessive	faron	farokon
adessive	farnál	faroknál
illative	farba	farokba
sublative	farra	farokra
allative	farhoz	farokhoz
elative	farból	farokból
delative	farról	farokról
ablative	fartól	faroktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	faré	faroké
non-attributive possessive - plural	faréi	farokéi

Possessive forms of far
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	farom	faraim
2nd person sing.	farod	faraid
3rd person sing.	fara	farai
1st person plural	farunk	faraink
2nd person plural	farotok	faraitok
3rd person plural	faruk	faraik

• farol
• farú

• far in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Inherited from Old Norse fǫr (“journey”).

• IPA^(key): /faːr/
• Rhymes: -aːr

far n (genitive singular fars, nominative plural för)

1. passage, ride

   Má ég fá far?

   Can I get a ride?

2. imprint, trace
3. character, personality

• flutningur
• merki

• skutl
• skutla

• raf

far (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of fare

• fra

From Proto-Italic *fars (“flour, grain”),^[1] possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰars-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“spike, prickle”); compare Welsh bara (“bread”), English barley, Serbo-Croatian brȁšno (“flour”), Albanian bar (“grass”), Ancient Greek Φηρῶν (Phērôn, “plant deity”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /far/, [fär]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /far/, [fär]
• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfar.r/, [ˈfärː] (before a vowel)

The nominative-accusative singular form scans as a long syllable in Ovid (cited below). Therefore, some sources mark the vowel in this form as long (fār), but an alternative explanation is that despite being spelled with a single letter r, this word form was pronounced with the underlying geminate /rr/ of the stem when the following word started with a vowel.^[2]

far n (genitive farris); third declension

1. farro, a type of hulled wheat. (Most likely emmer (Triticum dicoccum or Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccon) but often mistranslated as spelt (Triticum spelta)) ^{[3] [4]}
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.338:

     Ante, deos homini quod conciliare valeret, / far erat et puri lucida mica salis.

     Of old, the means to win the goodwill of the gods were far and sparkling grains of pure salt.

     ― Fay Glinister, “Festus and Ritual Foodstuffs” p. 220
2. coarse meal; grits

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• Franco-Provençal: far
• Galician: farelo
• Italian: farro
  • → English: farro
• Portuguese: farelo
• Sicilian: farru
• → English: far

• IPA^(key): /faːr/
• Rhymes: -aːr

Inherited from Arabic فَأْر (faʔr, “mouse”).

far m (plural firien or fariet, feminine fara)

1. rat

   Synonym: ġurdien

2. Y-shaped frame of a slingshot

Root
f-w-r
5 terms

From Arabic فارَ (fāra).

far (imperfect jfur, verbal noun fawran)

1. to overflow

Conjugation of far
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	fort	fort	far		forna	fortu	faru
	f			faret
imperfect	m	nfur	tfur	jfur		nfuru	tfuru	jfuru
	f			tfur
imperative			fur				furu

far

1. Alternative form of fare

Derived from Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Compare longer version fader.

far m (definite singular faren, indefinite plural fedre, definite plural fedrene)

1. father

• pappa
• fader

• → Kven: faari

far

1. imperative of fare

• IPA^(key): /fɑːr/

Inherited from Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Compare longer version fader.

far m (definite singular faren, indefinite plural fedrar, definite plural fedrane)

1. father

Historical inflection of far indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural 1901 ein fâr fâren feder or fedrar federne or fedrarne (fedrane) 1917 federne or fedrane 1938 ein far faren fedrar fedrane Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen.

• pappa
• fader

From Old Norse far, from Proto-Germanic *farą.

far n (definite singular faret, indefinite plural far, definite plural fara)

1. trace, track

• spor n
• laup n

far

1. imperative of fara

• “far” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /fa/

far m (plural fars)

1. (nautical) lighthouse

far

1. Alternative form of faire

• IPA^(key): /fɑr/

far

1. singular imperative of faran

far

1. Alternative form of for

Inherited from Proto-Norse *ᚠᚨᚱᚨ (*fara), from Proto-Germanic *farą.

far n (genitive fars, plural fǫr)

1. a means of passage
2. passage
3. trace, print, track
4. life, conduct, behaviour
5. state, condition

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

far

1. second-person singular imperative active of fara

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic‎^[4], Oxford: Clarendon Press

• faire, fare

Inherited from Latin facere.

• IPA^(key): /far/

far

1. to do
   • c. 1130, Jaufre Rudel, canso:

     Dieus que fetz tot qunt ve ni vai / E formet sest'amor de lonh / Mi don poder [...].

     God, who makes everything that comes or goes and who created this distant love, give me power.

• Occitan: far, fer, faire

• ᚠᛆᚱ

From (eastern) Old Norse *fāʀ (Old West Norse fær), from Proto-Germanic *fahaz.

fār n

1. sheep

• Swedish: får

Borrowed from Latin Pharus, French phare.

• IPA^(key): /far/
• Rhymes: -ar

far n (plural faruri)

1. lighthouse
2. (figuratively) beacon
3. car headlight

• fer (Puter)

Inherited from Late Latin fāre.

far (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader)

1. to do
2. to make

Possibly from Middle Irish i mbaile (“where”) from Old Irish baile (“place”) (with later early modern forms like a bhail a bhfuil, bhal a bhfuil) or from Old Irish fail (“where”), perhaps influenced by mar (“as, like”), related to Irish mar (“where”).

far

1. where (relative/non-interrogative)

   Bha e cunnartach far an robh am balach ag iasgach. ― It was dangerous where the boy was fishing.

• R. A. Breatnach (1973) “The relative adverb mar a”, in Celtica, volume 10, pages 167–170: “As regards Sc. far a, all I can suggest is that the initial f- is possibly to be referred to the /v-/ variants instanced among the M.Ir. forms of baile i listed above. But fail may be a more likely influence;”
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 baile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “? 1 bail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Clipping of de bhàrr

• bhàrr

far (+ genitive)

1. (down) from, off

   thuit e far eich ― he fell off a horse

far (first-person singular present fo, first-person singular preterite fe, past participle fado)

1. Obsolete spelling of hacer.

• “far”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

• IPA^(key): /fɑːr/

Short for fader, from Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

far c

1. father

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

far

1. inflection of fara:
   1. imperative
   2. present indicative

Short for farled.

far n

1. (nautical, Finland) Short for farled.

• far in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• far in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• far in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• FRA, arf, fra.

Borrowed from French phare.

far (definite accusative farı, plural farlar)

1. headlight

Borrowed from French fard.

far (definite accusative farı, plural farlar)

1. eye shadow

Inflection
Nominative	far
Definite accusative	farı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	far	farlar
Definite accusative	farı	farları
Dative	fara	farlara
Locative	farda	farlarda
Ablative	fardan	farlardan
Genitive	farın	farların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular farım farlarım 2nd singular farın farların 3rd singular farı farları 1st plural farımız farlarımız 2nd plural farınız farlarınız 3rd plural farları farları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular farımı farlarımı 2nd singular farını farlarını 3rd singular farını farlarını 1st plural farımızı farlarımızı 2nd plural farınızı farlarınızı 3rd plural farlarını farlarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular farıma farlarıma 2nd singular farına farlarına 3rd singular farına farlarına 1st plural farımıza farlarımıza 2nd plural farınıza farlarınıza 3rd plural farlarına farlarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular farımda farlarımda 2nd singular farında farlarında 3rd singular farında farlarında 1st plural farımızda farlarımızda 2nd plural farınızda farlarınızda 3rd plural farlarında farlarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular farımdan farlarımdan 2nd singular farından farlarından 3rd singular farından farlarından 1st plural farımızdan farlarımızdan 2nd plural farınızdan farlarınızdan 3rd plural farlarından farlarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular farımın farlarımın 2nd singular farının farlarının 3rd singular farının farlarının 1st plural farımızın farlarımızın 2nd plural farınızın farlarınızın 3rd plural farlarının farlarının

• (eye shadow): göz farı

Inherited from Late Latin fāre.

far

1. (transitive) to do, to make; to act, operate
2. (transitive) to study

• IPA^(key): [faɾ]

far (nominative plural fars)

1. lighthouse