different between fake vs fal

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?k/, enPR: f?k
• Rhymes: -e?k

Etymology 1

The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775 C.E. in British criminals' slang. It is probably from feak, feague (“to give a better appearance through artificial means”); akin to Dutch veeg (“a slap”), vegen (“to sweep, wipe”); German fegen (“to sweep, to polish”). Compare Old English f?cn, f?cen (“deceit, fraud”). Perhaps related to Old Norse fjúka (“fade, vanquish, disappear”), feikn (“strange, scary, unnatural”).

Adjective

fake (comparative faker or more fake, superlative fakest or most fake)

1. Not real; false, fraudulent.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fake

   Antonyms: authentic, genuine

2. (of people) Insincere.

Derived terms

• fakeness

Translations

Noun

fake (plural fakes)

1. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

   I suspect this passport is a fake.

2. (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
3. (archaic) A trick; a swindle.

Synonyms

• (soccer move): feint, (ice hockey move): deke

Translations

Verb

fake (third-person singular simple present fakes, present participle faking, simple past and past participle faked)

1. (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
2. (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.

3. (archaic) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
4. (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is
5. (music, transitive, intransitive) To improvise, in jazz.
   • 1994, ITA Journal (volume 22, page 20)

     Occasionally the opportunity arises to stand up and "fake" a jazz standard.

   • Denning, cited in 2020, Matt Brennan, Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit (page 110)

     In the face of this print music culture, 'faking' was the ability—at once respected and disrespected—to improvise a song (or a part in an arrangement) without reading the notation.

Synonyms

• (modify fraudulently): adulterate
• (make a false display): pass off, pose

Derived terms

• fake it
• fake out
• faker

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English faken (“to coil a rope”).

Noun

fake (plural fakes)

1. (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

Translations

Verb

fake (third-person singular simple present fakes, present participle faking, simple past and past participle faked)

1. (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.

Translations

Further reading

• fake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fake at OneLook Dictionary Search
• fake in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

Anagrams

• feak

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??ke/

Verb

faké

1. (transitive) open

Conjugation

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 275

Kristang

Noun

fake

1. knife

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English fake.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?fejk(i)/

Noun

fake m (plural fakes)

1. (Internet slang) a fake account in a social network or other online community; a sock puppet

Adjective

fake (invariable, comparable)

1. (Internet slang, of an image or video shared on the web) fake, manipulated, not genuine

   Synonym: falso

   Antonyms: genuíno, real, autêntico

English

Verb

fal

1. Obsolete spelling of fall
   • 1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie

     By chaunce, in Livias modest company;
     When, after the god-saving ceremony,
     For want of talke-stuffe, fals to foinery;
     Out goes his rapier, and to Livia
     He shewes the ward by puncta reversa

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *spala, from Proto-Indo-European *p?l-, *sp?l- (“to fall”). Cognate to Ancient Greek ?????? (spháll?, “to overthrow”), Lithuanian pùlti (“to attack, rush”), German fallen (“to fall”).

Verb

fal (first-person singular past tense fala, participle falur)

1. I forgive
2. I give (as a present)
3. I pray, am respectful
4. I salute, greet
5. to set (of the sun)

Related terms

• falje
• falë
• falas
• faltore
• faj

References

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?l]
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pad? (“dam, weir”). Cognates include Finnish pato (“dam”).

Noun

fal (plural falak)

2. wall

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Uralic *pala- (“to devour”). Cognates include Finnish palaa (“to burn”).

Verb

fal

2. (transitive) to devour, gorge, wolf, scarf (eat greedily, voraciously, or ravenously)

   Synonyms: zabál, habzsol, tömi magát

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

Further reading

• (wall): fal in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (to devour): fal in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Noun

fal

1. indefinite accusative singular of falur
2. indefinite dative singular of falur

Kott

Alternative forms

• phal

Etymology

From Proto-Yeniseian *?apV ("hotness, sweat"). Compare Assan palá, pfóltu, paltu ("hot").

Adjective

fal

1. hot, warm

Related terms

• ap?k?
• ap?k? ugana?
• ap?k?án
• pala

Ladin

Noun

fal m (plural fai)

1. error

Luxembourgish

Verb

fal

1. second-person singular imperative of falen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse falr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??l/

Adjective

fal (masculine and feminine fal, neuter falt, definite singular and plural fale, comparative falare, indefinite superlative falast, definite superlative falaste)

1. (archaic) for sale
2. (archaic) available

References

• “fal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fal/

Noun

fal f

1. genitive plural of fala

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse falr

Adjective

fal (not comparable)

1. (dated) for sale, that can be bought, bribable, corrupt

   en fal kvinna

   a prostitute

Declension

Related terms

• falbjuda
• falhet

References

• fal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)
• fal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• Alf, alf

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (fa?l).

Noun

fal (definite accusative fal?, plural fallar)

1. fortune telling, omen

Declension

See also

• fala inanma, fals?z da kalma
• falc?
• fal bakmak
• kahve fal?

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English fall and German Fall.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fal/

Noun

fal (nominative plural fals)

1. the action of falling
2. (grammar) grammatical case (in classic or original Volapük (Volapük rigik: kimfal (“nominative”), kimafal (“genitive”), borrowed from German Fall (“case”))

Declension

Derived terms

• däfalön (“to fall to pieces”)
• falayan (“trapdoor, hatch”)
• falön (“to fall”)
• fälön (“to make or cause to fall, to fell”)
• vatafal (“water fall”)