fala

Inherited from Latin fābula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfala/, [ˈfa.la]
• Hyphenation: fa‧la

fala f (plural fales)

1. speaking, speech

fala

1. third-person singular present indicative of falar
2. second-person singular imperative of falar

• IPA^(key): /ˈfala/
• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: fa‧la

From Old Galician-Portuguese fala, from Latin fābula (“discourse; narrative”).

fala f (countable and uncountable, plural falas)

1. (uncountable, with definite article) Fala (Romance language of northwestern Extremadura)
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme IV, Chapter 2: O “Oiru” i o “Moiru” do diptongu “au” latinu:

     É algu que poi dal traballu a os estudiosus da fala, […]

     It is something which may be complicated for Fala scholars, […]

2. (countable) a language or language variant, especially a minority or regional one
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme I, Chapter 2: Númerus?:

     As lenguas, idiomas, dialectus o falas tenin un-as funciós mui claras desde o principiu dos siglu i si hai contabilizaus en o mundu un-as 8.000 lenguas, ca un-a con sua importancia numérica relativa, a nossa fala é un tesoiru mais entre elas.

     The tongues, languages or regional variants have some very clear functions since the beginning of the centuries and some 8,000 languages have been accounted for in the world, each with its relative numerical importance, our Fala is another treasure among them.

fala

1. third-person singular present indicative of falal (“to speak”)
2. second-person singular imperative of falal (“to speak”)

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

 

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fala (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fābula (“discourse; narrative”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfala/ [ˈfa.lɐ]
• Rhymes: -ala
• Hyphenation: fa‧la

fala m (plural falas)

1. voice, speech (faculty of speech)
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Cronica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación "Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa", page 567:

     Ata meodía nõ cobrou sua fala, nẽ seu entendemento.

     Till noon he didn't recover his voice nor his mind

   • 1779, Diego Antonio Cernadas, Obras en Prosa y Verso, Madrid, page 315:

     Co o desexo de acordarvos, que en Galicia o seu funduxe ten a vosa nobre fruxe, vou en Gallego a falarvos: De esto non hai que estrañarvos; antes ben, facendo gala de esta nación, estimá-la, e si porque moito dista, non a conocés de vista, conocedea pola fala

     With the desire to make you remember that in Galicia your noble lineage has its foundation, I'm gonna speak to you in Galician: no need to wonder for this; rather, taking pride of this nation, to love it, and if because of the distance, you don't know it by sight, let's you know it by its speech.

2. a language, a dialect or a sociolect
   • 1859, José Domínguez d'Esquerdo, Entonces e agora ou Coroas e cadeas do fidalgo povo galicián:

     deprende a fala francesa, ingresa ou italián, e non construie a galícea, encolle o lombo, cand'ouce falare do país en que nasceu!

     he learns the French, the English or the Italian languages, but can't elaborate in Galician, he flinches when he hears about the country where he was born!

3. Galego, Galician language
   • 1917, anonymous author, A Nosa Terra, number 7:

     Fai pouco tempo, e ben pouco por nosa indiferenza, qu'un feixe d'homes de vontade de ferro, axuntaronse, formando a santa e nobre Irmandade da Fala.

     Sometime ago, a very short time ago because of our indifference, a handful of men with an iron will, joining together, founded the holy and noble Brotherhood of the Fala.

4. Fala (Galician-Portuguese language of northwestern Extremadura, in Spain)
5. word, tale
6. speech, expression

   Synonym: expresión

fala

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fala”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fala”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fala”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fala”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fala”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Portuguese falar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu fala.

fala

1. to say
2. to speak
3. to talk

fal (“wall”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒlɒ]
• Hyphenation: fa‧la

fala

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of fal

fala

1. indefinite genitive plural of falur

• fola

From Middle Irish fola.^[1]

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠɑl̪ˠə/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠɑlə/^[2]
• (Cois Fharraige, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠalˠə/, /ˈfˠal̪ˠə/

fala f (genitive singular fala, nominative plural falta)

1. grudge, spite, resentment, feud

• ar eagla na fala thuas (“for fear of the wrath to come; to be morally on the safe side”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fala”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fala”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

From Latin fala, from Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌋𐌀 (fala).

fala f (plural fale)

1. a siege tower

• alfa

From Portuguese falar.

fala

1. speak

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

• phala

From Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌋𐌀 (fala).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.la/, [ˈfäɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.la/, [ˈfäːlä]

fala f (genitive falae); first declension

1. (military) a siege tower

First-declension noun.

• falārica

• “fala”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fala in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *palaq, from Proto-Austronesian *palaq.

• IPA^(key): /fala/

fala

1. vagina, vulva

fala

1. Alternative form of fela

From Latin fābula (“discourse, narrative”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.la/

fala f (plural falas)

1. discourse, narrative

• falar

• Fala: fala
• Galician: fala
• Portuguese: fala

 

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

fala

Wikipedia ^pl

 

Borrowed from German Welle.^[1][2][3][4] First attested in 1594.^[5] Displaced wełn.

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: fa‧la
• Homophone: Fala

fala f (related adjective falowy)

1. wave (rise in water caused by wind or underwater seismic movements)
2. wave, surge (intensification of some phenomena)
   1. (obsolete) surge, burst, flurry (sudden onset of precipitation)
3. wave, surge (very large number of people gathered in some place and constantly moving somewhere)

   Synonym: przypływ

   Fala turystów wracających z wakacji spowodowała korki na drogach. ― A wave of tourists returning from their holidays caused traffic jams on the roads.

4. wave, surge (sudden appearance of intense feelings and sensations)

   Synonyms: przypływ, (obsolete) przystęp

5. (physics) wave (moving disturbance in the energy level of a field)
6. wave; curl (hairstyle resembling a wave)

   Synonym: karb

7. bullying (teasing from a higher grade to a lower grade in school, etc.)
8. (military) time remaining until the end of military service
9. (military) soldiers from a singular draft
10. wave (moving disturbance, undulation)
11. (physics) wave (moving disturbance in a field)
12. wave (sudden, but temporary, uptick in something)

    Synonyms: nasilenie, przypływ

13. crowd, wave (large group of people)

    Synonym: przypływ

    Hypernym: tłum

14. (Near Masovian) rainstorm; hailstorm
15. (Far Masovian) windstorm (storm with wind and rain)

• → Belarusian: хва́ля (xválja)
• → Ukrainian: хви́ля (xvýlja)

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), fala is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 65 times in scientific texts, 16 times in news, 8 times in essays, 17 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 110 times, making it the 558th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[6]

• fala in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fala in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Wiesław Morawski (29.11.2018) “FALA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “fala”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “fala”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “fala”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 713
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “fala”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• fala in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
• Zygmunt Wasilewski (1889) “fala”, in Jagodne: wieś w powiecie łukowskim, gminie Dąbie: zarys etnograficzny (in Polish), Warsaw: M. Arct, page 241
• Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “fala”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 107

• Rhymes: -alɐ
• Homophone: fá-la
• Hyphenation: fa‧la

From Old Galician-Portuguese fala, from Latin fābula (“discourse, narrative”). Compare fábula, a borrowed doublet.

• falla (obsolete)

fala f (plural falas)

1. (uncountable) speech (the ability to speak; the state of not being mute)

   Antonyms: afonia, mudez

2. a speech, a discourse

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:conversa

   A fala da personagem

   The character's speech

   Justo na hora de sua apresentação, ele esqueceu sua fala.

   Right on time the for his presentation, he forgot his speech.

3. accent (the way someone speaks)

   Synonyms: dicção, linguajar, pronúncia, sotaque

   A fala dele é muito engraçada.

   His accent is very funny.

4. a dialect or regional variant of a language

   Synonyms: dialeto, variante

5. a line of dialogue in a screenplay or script

   Ele praticava sua fala, um tanto nervoso.

   He practiced his line, nervously.

6. (Brazil, informal) used to greet someone (equivalent to english sup)

   Fala Rodrigo, beleza?

   Sup Rodrigo, you good?

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fala.

• (dialect):
  • fala de Estremadura
  • fala de Xálima

fala

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:falar.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfala]

fala f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of fală

From Proto-Polynesian *fala, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [Term?] (compare Indonesian pandan, Hawaiian hala).

fala

1. the screw pine, pandanus (Pandanus tectorius)
2. a woven mat made from the leaves of the pandanus

fala f sg

1. genitive singular of fuil

• IPA^(key): /fǎːla/
• Hyphenation: fa‧la

fála f (Cyrillic spelling фа́ла)

1. (colloquial) Nonstandard form of hvála (“thanks”).

From English fell or Dutch vellen.

fala

1. to fell

From English fall.

fala

1. to ebb

• fara

• Audio (Kenya):

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fala (ma class, plural mafala)

1. (derogatory) a fool, an imbecile (person with poor judgement or little intelligence)

   Synonym: mjinga

fala

1. inflection of fal:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

• alfa

 

Cognate with Tidore fola, Tabaru woa, West Makian pala.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfa.la]

fala

1. house

   fala mari ― stonen house

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Proto-Polynesian *fala, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [Term?] (compare Indonesian pandan, Hawaiian hala).

• IPA^(key): /fa.la/

fala

1. a woven mat usually made from the leaves of the pandanus

• fakapopofala