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English

Etymology 1

Verb from Middle English fallen, from Old English feallan (“to fall, fail, decay, die, attack”), from Proto-West Germanic *fallan (“to fall”), from Proto-Germanic *fallan? (“to fall”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)p?l-.

Cognate with West Frisian falle (“to fall”), Low German fallen (“to fall”), Dutch vallen (“to fall”), German fallen (“to fall”), Norwegian Bokmål falle (“to fall”), Norwegian Nynorsk falla (“to fall”), Icelandic falla (“to fall”), Albanian fal (“forgive, pray, salute, greet”), Lithuanian pùlti (“to attack, rush”).

Noun from Middle English fal, fall, falle, from Old English feall, ?efeall (“a falling, fall”), from Proto-Germanic *fall?, *fallaz (“a fall, trap”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)p?l-. Cognate with Dutch val, German Fall, Swedish fall, Icelandic fall.

Sense of "autumn" is by 1660s England as a shortening of Middle English fall of the leaf (1540s), from the falling of leaves during this season. Along with autumn, it mostly replaced the older name harvest as that name began to be associated strictly with the act of harvesting. Compare spring, which began as a shortening of “spring of the leaf”.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fôl, IPA^(key): /f??l/
• (General American) enPR: fôl, IPA^(key): /f?l/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: fäl, IPA^(key): /f?l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Verb

fall (third-person singular simple present falls, present participle falling, simple past fell or (in archaic sense only) felled, past participle fallen or (in archaic sense only) felled)

1. (heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
   1. To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.

      • There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

   2. To come down, to drop or descend.
      • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond, Ch.1:

        Her eyes fell on the table, and she advanced into the room wiping her hands on her apron.

   3. To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.

   4. To be brought to the ground.
2. (transitive) To move downwards.
   1. (obsolete) To let fall; to drop.
   2. (obsolete) To sink; to depress.

   3. (Britain, US, dialect, archaic) To fell; to cut down.

3. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
   1. (copulative, in idiomatic expressions) To become.

      • At length they stood at the corner from which they had begun, and it had fallen quite dark, and they were no wiser.

   3. To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); said of an instance of a recurring event such as a holiday or date.

   4. (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.

   5. (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease.

   6. (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
      • 1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued

        The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished.

      • 1835, Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Vol.1, pp.284-5:

        Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
4. (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.

   • Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities.

6. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
7. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

8. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.

   • Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

9. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.

10. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.

    • Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

    • I have observed of late thy looks are fallen.

11. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).

    • Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall.

    • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I Scene 2

      […] An the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall make shift to go without him.

    • 1879, Herbert Spenser, Principles of Sociology Volume II – Part IV: Ceremonial Institutions

      Primitive men […] do not make laws, they fall into customs.

12. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
    • 1881, Benjamin Jowett (Thucydides)

      They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul.

13. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

14. (intransitive, of a fabric) To hang down (under the influence of gravity).

Quotations

• c. 1591, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of King Richard the third, Andrew Wi?e (publisher, 1598 — second quarto), Act V, Scene 3:

  Ghoa?t [of Clarence]. […] / To morrow in the battaile thinke on me, / And fall thy edgele??e ?word, di?paire and die.

Synonyms

• (move to a lower position under the effect of gravity): drop, plummet, plunge
• (come down): come down, descend, drop
• (come to the ground deliberately): drop, lower oneself, prostrate oneself
• (be brought to the ground):
• (collapse; be overthrown or defeated): be beaten by, be defeated by, be overthrown by, be smitten by, be vanquished by,
• (die): die
• (be allotted to): be the responsibility of, be up to
• (become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc)): dip, drop
• (become): become, get
• (cause (something) to descend to the ground): cut down (of a tree), fell, knock down, knock over, strike down

Antonyms

• (come down): ascend, go up, rise
• (come to the ground deliberately): get up, pick oneself up, stand up
• (collapse; be overthrown or defeated): beat, defeat, overthrow, smite, vanquish
• (become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc)): rise

Coordinate terms

• topple
• tumble

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

fall (countable and uncountable, plural falls)

1. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
2. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.

   • “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.

3. (chiefly Canada, US, archaic in Britain) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. [from 16th c.]
4. A loss of greatness or status.

5. That which falls or cascades.
6. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
   1. (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out.
   2. (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
   3. (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
7. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
8. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.

9. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).

10. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
11. A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
12. The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard

Synonyms

• (act of moving to a lower position): descent, drop
• (reduction): decrease, dip, drop, lowering, reduction
• (season): autumn, (UK dialect) harvest, (UK dialect) back end
• (loss of greatness or status): downfall
• (blame; punishment): rap

Antonyms

• (act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity): ascent, rise
• (reduction): increase, rise
• (loss of greatness or status): ascent, rise

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• falls

Etymology 2

Perhaps from the north-eastern Scottish pronunciation of whale.

Interjection

fall

1. (nautical) The cry given when a whale is sighted, or harpooned.

Noun

fall (plural falls)

1. (nautical) The chasing of a hunted whale.

Derived terms

• loose fall

Albanian

Etymology

From Turkish fal, from Arabic ?????? (fa?l, “omen”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?/

Noun

fall m (indefinite plural falle, definite singular falli, definite plural fallet)

1. fortune telling

Declension

Derived terms

References

Breton

Adjective

fall

1. bad

Catalan

Etymology

From fallir.

Noun

fall m (plural falls)

1. cliff

Related terms

• falla

Further reading

• “fall” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse fall, from falla (“to fall”). The grammatical sense is a calque of Latin casus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fatl/

Noun

fall n (genitive singular fals, plural føll)

1. fall, drop
2. case (linguistics)

Declension

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fal/
• Rhymes: -al

Verb

fall

1. singular imperative of fallen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of fallen

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse fall, from falla (“to fall”). The grammatical sense is a calque of Latin casus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fatl/
• Rhymes: -atl

Noun

fall n (genitive singular falls, nominative plural föll)

1. fall, drop
2. (grammar) case
3. (computing, programming) function; (subprogram, usually with formal parameters, returning a data value when called)
4. indefinite accusative singular of fall

Declension

Synonyms

• (function): fallstefja

Derived terms

See also

• falla (verb)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fall n (definite singular fallet, indefinite plural fall, definite plural falla or fallene)

1. a fall
2. case

   i fall - in case

   i alle fall - in any case

Derived terms

Related terms

• falle (verb)

Verb

fall

1. imperative of falle

References

• “fall” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?l?/

Noun

fall n (definite singular fallet, indefinite plural fall, definite plural falla)

1. a fall
2. case

Derived terms

Verb

fall

1. past tense of falle
2. imperative of falle

References

• “fall” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse fall, from falla (“to fall”). The grammatical sense is a calque of Latin casus.

Pronunciation

Noun

fall n

1. a fall (the act of falling)
2. a fall, loss of greatness or wealth, a bankruptcy
3. a slope, a waterfall, the height of a slope or waterfall

4. a (legal) case

Declension

Related terms

Verb

fall

1. imperative of falla.

References

• fall in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin illos (“those ones”).

Pronoun

los

1. them (masculine direct object)

Synonyms

• es

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin ill?s, from ille.

Article

los m pl (masculine sg el, feminine sg la, neuter sg lo, feminine plural les)

1. (definite) the

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Latin ill?s; cf. els.

Pronoun

los (enclitic, contracted 'ls, proclitic els)

1. them (masculine, direct or indirect object)
2. them (feminine, indirect object only)

Declension

Etymology 2

From Latin ill?s, from ille.

Article

los m pl

1. masculine plural of lo

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?los]
• Rhymes: -os

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *?ls?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?el-. Cognate with English elk, German Elch.

Noun

los m anim

1. elk (British), moose (U.S.)

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Los, which has unclear origins.

Noun

los m inan

1. lottery ticket

Declension

References

Further reading

• los in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• los in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse lauss

Adjective

los

1. loose

Noun

los c (singular definite lossen, plural indefinite losser)

1. lynx

Inflection

Noun

los n (singular definite losset, plural indefinite los)

1. kick

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?s/
• Hyphenation: los
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch los, from Old Dutch *los, from Proto-West Germanic *lus (a-stem), from Proto-Germanic *lusaz. Cognate with Ripuarian Central Franconian loss, Luxembourgish lass, lues. Related with Dutch loos, the cognate of German los, lose, English loose.

Adjective

los (comparative losser, superlative meest los or lost)

1. loose
2. separate

Inflection

Derived terms

Verb

los

1. first-person singular present indicative of lossen
2. imperative of lossen

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch los, from Old Dutch *los, from Proto-Germanic *luhsuz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light, to shine”) or from a substrate language. Cognate with Old Saxon lohs, Old High German luhs, Old English lox, from a similar Germanic form also Swedish lodjur. Cognates outside Germanic include Ancient Greek ???? (lúnx), Lithuanian l?šis, Old Church Slavonic ????? (rus?), Old Irish lug, Old Armenian ?????????? (lusanunk?).

Noun

los m (plural lossen, diminutive losje n)

1. (dated) lynx (specifically the Eurasian lynx, Lynx lynx)

   Synonym: lynx

Alternative forms

• losch (obsolete)

Derived terms

• pardellos

Anagrams

• sol

References

Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

From Old Saxon l?s, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz, cognate with Dutch los and English loose.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?s

Adjective

los

1. open

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin laus, laudem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo/

Noun

los m (plural los)

1. (obsolete) praise; acclaim

   Synonym: (modern) louange

Related terms

• louer

Further reading

• “los” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo?s/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /l?s/ (regionally; chiefly as interjection or when meaning “going on”)

Etymology 1

From Old High German l?s. Compare English loose.

Adjective

los (comparative loser, superlative am losesten)

1. (colloquial or dated) Alternative form of lose (“loose”)

Adverb

los (comparative only used in combination with a verb)

1. off, rid of

2. going on

3. (colloquial, regional, Westphalia, Lower Saxony) open

Interjection

los

1. come on!, let's go!

Derived terms

Related terms

• gelosen

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

los

1. singular imperative of losen

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?s]
• Hyphenation: los

Etymology 1

Shortening from losmen (“hostel”).

Noun

los (first-person possessive losku, second-person possessive losmu, third-person possessive losnya)

1. hostel
2. longhouse

Etymology 2

From Dutch loods (“pilot”).

Noun

los (first-person possessive losku, second-person possessive losmu, third-person possessive losnya)

1. (navigation) pilot boat

Etymology 3

From Dutch los (“loose”).

Adjective

los (plural los-los)

1. (colloquial) loose, free

   Synonyms: lepas, bebas

Further reading

• “los” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Pronoun

los

1. (accusative, dative) them, those

Ladino

Etymology

From Latin ill?s, from ille.

Article

los (singular el, feminine las)

1. the (masculine plural)

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French loche (dialectal)

Noun

los

1. slug

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. (1987). Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *los, from Proto-Germanic *lusaz, *lausaz (“loose, free”).

Adjective

los

1. loose, free
2. free, not encumbered
3. having lost, robbed

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: los
• Limburgish: lósj

Further reading

• “los”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “los (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lose, losse

Etymology

From Old English los.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?s/, /l??s/

Noun

los (uncountable)

1. loss

Descendants

• English: loss
• Scots: los, lose, lois
• Yola: lass

References

• “l??s, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowing from Low German lots (short form of lotsman); compare with German Lotse.

Noun

los m (definite singular losen, indefinite plural loser, definite plural losene)

1. (nautical) a pilot (person who guides ships in and out of a harbour)

References

• “los” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

los m (definite singular losen, indefinite plural losar, definite plural losane)

1. Alternative spelling of lós

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Homophones: lòs, lås

Noun

los n (definite singular loset, indefinite plural los, definite plural losa)

1. Alternative spelling of lòs

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ill?s, from ille.

Article

los (singular lo, feminine la, feminine plural las)

1. the; masculine plural definite article

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lus? (“loss”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewHs- (“to cut loose; sever; lose”). Cognate with Old Norse los (“looseness; breaking up”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /los/

Noun

los n (nominative plural los)

1. loss
2. destruction

Declension

Derived terms

• losian

Descendants

• Middle English: los, lose, losse
  • English: loss
  • Scots: los, lose, lois
  • Yola: lass

Old French

Etymology

See the verb loer (“to laud”).

Noun

los m (oblique plural los, nominative singular los, nominative plural los)

1. glory; positive reputation

Descendants

• French: los

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lausaz, whence also Old English l?as, Old Norse lauss.

Adjective

l?s

1. loose

Polish

Etymology

From Middle High German l?z, from Old High German hl?z, from Proto-Germanic *hlautiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?s/

Noun

los m inan

1. fate
2. lottery ticket

   Synonym: kupon

Declension

Derived terms

• (verb) losowa?
• (adjective) losowy

Further reading

• los in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lu?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /lus/, /lu?/

Pronoun

los

1. Alternative form of os (third-person masculine plural objective pronoun) used as an enclitic and mesoclitic following a verb form ending in a consonant (-z, -r and -s, but not -m); the consonant is elided and the preceding vowel takes an accent if necessary

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *?ls?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lôs/

Noun

l?s m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. moose
2. elk

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ols?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ló?s/

Noun

l??s m anim

1. elk, moose

Inflection

Further reading

• “los”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /los/, [los]

Etymology 1

From Latin ill?s accusative plural masculine of ille.

Article

los m pl

1. the

Related terms

Etymology 2

Pronoun

los

1. accusative of ellos and ustedes (when referring to more than one man); them, you all (formal)
2. plural masculine or neuter pronoun

See also

Swedish

Noun

los

1. indefinite genitive singular of lo

Anagrams

• Sol, sol

Westrobothnian

Etymology

Borrowing from Low German lots (short form of lotsman), from Middle English lodesman; compare with German Lotse.

Noun

los m (definite singular losn, dative singular losåm, indefinite plural losa, definite plural losan)

1. (nautical) a pilot (person who guides ships in and out of a harbour)

Derived terms

• losser

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??/

Verb

los

1. come, return (to one's home / to a place where one resides)

   Antonym: tuaj

Derived terms

• los nag

References

• Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)

Zazaki

Etymology

Compare Armenian ??? (loš).

Noun

los (genitive singular losi)

1. lavash