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far
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go over”). Cognate with Middle Low German vere, Dutch ver, and German fern.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /f??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Adjective
far (comparative farther or further, superlative farthest or furthest or farthermost or furthermost)
- Distant; remote in space.
- Remote in time.
- the far future
- Long. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- More remote of two.
- Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.
- Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
- (computing, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
Synonyms
- (remote in space): distant, far; see also Thesaurus:distant
Antonyms
- (remote in space): close, near; see also Thesaurus:near
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See far/translations § Adjective.
References
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
Adverb
far (comparative farther or further, superlative farthest or furthest)
- To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.
- Very much; by a great amount.
Translations
Verb
far (third-person singular simple present fars, present participle farring, simple past and past participle farred)
- (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.
- 1864, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis
Etymology 2
From Latin far. Doublet of farro.
Noun
far (uncountable)
- Spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta), 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, ...
- 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.
- 1756, Aurelius Cornelius Celsus, Medicine: In Eight Books, page 108
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
far (plural fars)
- (Britain, dialect) A litter of piglets; a farrow.
Anagrams
- 'arf, AFR, AFr., ARF, Afr., FRA, Fra, RAF, RFA, arf, fra
Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Pharus.
Noun
far m
- lighthouse
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin pharus, from Pharus, from Ancient Greek ????? (Pháros).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?far/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?fa?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Noun
far m (plural fars)
- lighthouse
- headlight
Further reading
- “far” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “far” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “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.
Cimbrian
Noun
far ?
- fern
References
- Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Dalmatian
Verb
far
- Alternative form of facro
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fad?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r (“father”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?f??]
- Rhymes: -a?r
Noun
far c (singular definite faren, plural indefinite fædre)
- father, dad
Inflection
Synonyms
- fader
Related terms
- mor, moder
- bror, søster, søskende
- søn, datter
Further reading
- “far” in Den Danske Ordbog
Esperanto
Etymology
Back-formation from fari (“to do, to make”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /far/
- Hyphenation: far
- Audio:
Preposition
far
- (neologism) by
- La libro de Johano far ?ekspiro
- 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
- La libro de Johano far ?ekspiro
Usage notes
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).
References
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse far.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?a??/
- Rhymes: -?a??
- Homophone: fær
Noun
far n (genitive singular fars, plural før)
- drive, ride, tour
- vessel
- trace, sign
Declension
Derived terms
- akfar
- flogfar
- fiskifar
- fótafar
- fingrafar
- farmaður
- havfar
- hugfar
- keldufar
- orðafar
- rúmdarfar
- sjófar
- umfar
- tilfar
- tíggjumannafar
- áttamannafar
- áarfar
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa?/
Noun
far m (plural fars)
- A traditional Breton cake
- Synonym: far breton
Further reading
- “far” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Hungarian
Etymology
From Proto-Uralic *pon?e (“tail”). Older hypotheses have attempted to derive far from Proto-Uralic *pure- (“back, rear”) or Proto-Finno-Ugric *perä (“back, rear”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?f?r]
- Rhymes: -?r
Noun
far (plural farok)
- buttock, posterior
- Synonyms: fenék, ülep, hátsó, segg
- stern (ship)
- tail, rear (vehicle)
Declension
Derived terms
- farol
(Compound words):
- farzseb
References
Further reading
- far 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
Etymology
From Old Norse f?r (“journey”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa?r/
- Rhymes: -a?r
Noun
far n (genitive singular fars, nominative plural för)
- passage, ride
- Má ég fá far?
- Can I get a ride?
- Má ég fá far?
- imprint, trace
- character, personality
Declension
Synonyms
- flutningur
- merki
Derived terms
- fá far (to get a ride, to get a lift)
- gera sér far um
- hjakka í sama farinu
- í fari hans
- sækja í sama farið
See also
- skutl
- skutla
Anagrams
- raf
Italian
Verb
far
- Apocopic form of fare
Anagrams
- fra
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *b?ars- (“spike, prickle”) (compare Welsh bara (“bread”), English barley, Serbo-Croatian ???????, br?šno (“flour”), Albanian bar (“grass”), Ancient Greek ????? (Ph?ron, “plant deity”)).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /far/, [fär]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /far/, [f?r]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?far.r/, [?fär?] (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 (f?r), 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.
Noun
far n (genitive farris); third declension
- farro, a type of hulled wheat. (Most likely emmer (Triticum dicoccum or Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccon) but often mistranslated as spelt (Triticum spelta))
- ? Fay Glinister, “Festus and Ritual Foodstuffs” p. 220
- coarse meal; grits
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- English: far
- Galician: farelo
- Italian: farro
- ? English: farro
- Portuguese: farelo
References
Maltese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa?r/
- Rhymes: -a?r
Etymology 1
From Arabic ?????? (fa?r, “mouse”).
Noun
far m (plural firien, feminine fara)
- rat
- (archaic) mouse
Usage notes
- Originally, far meant “mouse” and ?urdien meant “rat”. The distinction was then widely lost and both words are attestable in both senses. Today, ?urdien is the predominant word for both species, while far is used chiefly for “rat”, but is less common.
Etymology 2
From Arabic ????? (f?ra).
Verb
far (imperfect jfur, verbal noun fawran)
- to overflow
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fad?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r (“father”). Compare longer version fader.
Noun
far m (definite singular faren, indefinite plural fedre, definite plural fedrene)
- a father
Synonyms
- pappa
- fader
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Kven: faari
See also
- mor, mamma
- bror, søster, søsken
- sønn, datter
Etymology 2
Verb
far
- imperative of fare
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??r/ (example of pronunciation)
Etymology 1
From Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fad?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r (“father”). Compare longer version fader. Akin to English father.
Noun
far m (definite singular faren, indefinite plural fedrar, definite plural fedrane)
- father
Synonyms
- pappa
- fader
Inflection
Derived terms
Related terms
- mor, mamma
- bror, syster, sysken
- son, dotter
Etymology 2
From Old Norse far, from Proto-Germanic *far?.
Noun
far n (definite singular faret, indefinite plural far, definite plural fara)
- trace, track
Synonyms
- spor n
- laup n
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Verb
far
- imperative of fara
References
- “far” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Occitan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa/
Etymology 1
Noun
far m (plural fars)
- (nautical) lighthouse
Etymology 2
Verb
far
- Alternative form of faire
Old Irish
Determiner
far
- Alternative form of for
Old Norse
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *far?.
Noun
far n (genitive fars, plural f?r)
- a means of passage
- passage
- trace, print, track
- life, conduct, behaviour
- state, condition
Declension
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
far
- second-person singular imperative active of fara
References
- far in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old Occitan
Alternative forms
- faire
- fare
Etymology
From Latin facere, present active infinitive of faci?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /far/
Verb
far
- 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.
- Dieus que fetz tot qunt ve ni vai / E formet sest'amor de lonh / Mi don poder [...].
- c. 1130, Jaufre Rudel, canso:
Descendants
- Catalan: fer
- Occitan: far, fer, faire
Old Swedish
Etymology
From (eastern) Old Norse *f?? (Old West Norse fær), from Proto-Germanic *fahaz.
Noun
f?r n
- sheep
Declension
Descendants
- Swedish: får
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Pharus, French phare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /far/
- Rhymes: -ar
Noun
far n (plural faruri)
- lighthouse
- (figuratively) beacon
- car headlight
Declension
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Puter) fer
Etymology
From Latin faci?, facere.
Verb
far
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) to do, make
Conjugation
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology 1
From mar (“as, like”)
Conjunction
far
- where (relative/non-interrogative)
- Bha e cunnartach far an robh am balach ag iasgach. - It was dangerous where the boy was fishing.
Etymology 2
Preposition
far
- Alternative form of bhàrr
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??r/
Etymology 1
Short for fader, from Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fad?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r (“father”).
Noun
far c
- father
Declension
Derived terms
References
- far in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- far in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
far
- imperative of fara.
- present tense of fara.
Etymology 3
Short for farled.
Noun
far n
- (nautical) fairway
Anagrams
- FRA, arf, fra.
Turkish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French phare.
Noun
far (definite accusative far?, plural farlar)
- headlight
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French fard.
Noun
far (definite accusative far?, plural farlar)
- eye shadow
Declension
Synonyms
- (eye shadow): göz far?
Venetian
Etymology
From Latin facere (compare Italian fare), present active infinitive of faci?.
Verb
far
- (transitive) to do
- (transitive) to make
- (transitive) to act, operate
- (transitive) to study
Volapük
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fa?]
Noun
far (nominative plural fars)
- lighthouse
Declension
See also
- laramamalet
- lefilamalet
- malet
- maletam
- maletadomil
- maletahorn
- maletamöp
- tüm
Westrobothnian
Etymology 1
From Old Norse faðir, feðr, -faðr, -f?ðr, from Proto-Germanic *fad?r, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r (“father”).
Alternative forms
- fær, fär, fer
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??r/, /fa?r/, /fæ?r/, /fe?r/
Noun
far m (definite farin or far’n, vocative fare)
- father
- Han fekk säg ä bra tag, då’n einsamen ärvd farin
- He got a good advantage when he alone inherited the father.
- Hä var grannars far’n dill å håll prästa i år men han hadd int’ na dill å påhåll.
- It was the father of the house in the neighbouring farm's turn to be priest-host (during house hearings) this year, but he lacked what was required.
- Han fekk säg ä bra tag, då’n einsamen ärvd farin
Synonyms
- pååpp
Derived terms
- farsfar
- farrbror
- gufar
Related terms
- måor, mååmm
- bråor, söster, syskan
- sahn, doter
- faddar
Etymology 2
From Old Norse for, from Proto-Germanic *furhs.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??r/, /f??r/, /f??r/
Noun
far f (definite fara, plural fara, definite plural farana)
- furrow
Alternative forms
- får
Derived terms
- restefar
Etymology 3
Noun
far n
- Alternative form of fær
Etymology 4
From Old Norse fær, *f??, from Proto-Germanic *fahaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pó?os.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fó??], [f????], [f????]
- Rhymes: -ó?r
Noun
far n
- Sheep.
Synonyms
- d?s
- däll
Etymology 5
Verb
far
- Alternative form of fær
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faa
English
Noun
faa (plural faas)
- The letter ? in the Arabic script.
Anagrams
- A.A.F., AAF, AFA
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
- faahe
Etymology
From Old High German f?han, from Proto-Germanic *fanhan?. Compare German fahen, fangen, Dutch vangen, English fang, Icelandic fá.
Verb
faa
- (Uri) to catch
Conjugation
Strong:
Mixed:
References
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 86.
Jamamadí
Noun
faa
- (Banawá) water
References
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Middle English
Noun
faa
- Alternative form of fo
Swahili
Etymology
Of Bantu origin.
Pronunciation
Verb
-faa (infinitive kufaa)
- to fit
- to be suitable or useful
- Synonym: halisi
Conjugation
Derived terms
- Nominal derivations:
- kifaa
Woleaian
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.
Numeral
faa
- four
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