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English

Etymology

An anglicised spelling of fa.

Noun

fah (plural fahs)

1. (music) Alternative form of fa.

Anagrams

• FHA, HFA, ha'f

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??x/

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz.

Adjective

f?h

1. guilty; criminal
2. hostile
3. outlawed

Declension

Descendants

• English: foe

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz, from Proto-Indo-European *póy?os.

Cognate with Old High German f?h, Gothic ???????????????????? (faihs). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ???????? (poikílos, “multicoloured”).

Adjective

f?h

1. decorated, coloured, shining, adorned

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: fou, fow, fawe, fah
  • Scots: faw

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fak, from Proto-Germanic *fak?, whence also Old English fæc.

Noun

fah n

1. wall

Descendants

• German: Fach

English

Noun

fak (uncountable)

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of fuck

   Get the fak out.

   punk as fak

Verb

fak

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of fuck

   Fak off!

   Go fak yourself.

Anagrams

• AFK, FKA, afk, f.k.a., f/k/a, fka, kaf

Abinomn

Noun

fak

1. (anatomy) heart

Amanab

Noun

fak

1. arrow

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fak/

Conjunction

fak

1. (Quebec, informal) Phonetic, vernacular spelling of fait que

Rohingya

Etymology

Cognate with Assamese ???? (pakhi)

Noun

fak

1. wing

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English fuck

Interjection

fak (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. (colloquial) fuck, dammit

   Fak, zakasnit ?u! — Dammit, I'm gonna be late!

Related terms

• sranje, šit

Tboli

Noun

fak

1. frog

West Frisian

Etymology

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Noun

fak n (plural fakken, diminutive fakje)

1. profession, trade

Further reading

• “fak”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011