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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)

1. Distant; remote in space.
2. Remote in time.

   the far future

3. Long. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. More remote of two.

5. Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.
6. Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
7. (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)

1. To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.

2. Very much; by a great amount.

Translations

Verb

far (third-person singular simple present fars, present participle farring, simple past and past participle farred)

1. (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.

Etymology 2

From Latin far. Doublet of farro.

Noun

far (uncountable)

1. 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.

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

far (plural fars)

1. (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

1. 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)

1. lighthouse
2. 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 ?

1. 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

1. 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)

1. 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

1. (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

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)

1. drive, ride, tour
2. vessel
3. 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)

1. 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)

1. buttock, posterior

   Synonyms: fenék, ülep, hátsó, segg

2. stern (ship)
3. 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)

1. passage, ride

   Má ég fá far?

   Can I get a ride?

2. imprint, trace
3. 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

1. 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

1. 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
2. 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)

1. rat
2. (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)

1. 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)

1. a father

Synonyms

• pappa
• fader

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Kven: faari

See also

• mor, mamma
• bror, søster, søsken
• sønn, datter

Etymology 2

Verb

far

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. trace, track

Synonyms

• spor n
• laup n

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Verb

far

1. imperative of fara

References

• “far” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa/

Etymology 1

Noun

far m (plural fars)

1. (nautical) lighthouse

Etymology 2

Verb

far

1. Alternative form of faire

Old Irish

Determiner

far

1. Alternative form of for

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *far?.

Noun

far n (genitive fars, plural f?r)

1. a means of passage
2. passage
3. trace, print, track
4. life, conduct, behaviour
5. state, condition

Declension

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

far

1. 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

1. 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.

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

1. sheep

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: får

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Pharus, French phare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /far/
• Rhymes: -ar

Noun

far n (plural faruri)

1. lighthouse
2. (figuratively) beacon
3. car headlight

Declension

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Puter) fer

Etymology

From Latin faci?, facere.

Verb

far

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) to do, make

Conjugation

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From mar (“as, like”)

Conjunction

far

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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

1. imperative of fara.
2. present tense of fara.

Etymology 3

Short for farled.

Noun

far n

1. (nautical) fairway

Anagrams

• FRA, arf, fra.

Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French phare.

Noun

far (definite accusative far?, plural farlar)

1. headlight

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French fard.

Noun

far (definite accusative far?, plural farlar)

1. eye shadow

Declension

Synonyms

• (eye shadow): göz far?

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin facere (compare Italian fare), present active infinitive of faci?.

Verb

far

1. (transitive) to do
2. (transitive) to make
3. (transitive) to act, operate
4. (transitive) to study

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fa?]

Noun

far (nominative plural fars)

1. 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)

1. 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.

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)

1. furrow

Alternative forms

• får

Derived terms

• restefar

Etymology 3

Noun

far n

1. 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

1. Sheep.

Synonyms

• d?s
• däll

Etymology 5

Verb

far

1. Alternative form of fær

English

Noun

fas

1. plural of fa

Anagrams

• AFS, AFs, FSA, SAF, SFA, asf

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fas/
• Rhymes: -as

Noun

fas

1. plural of fa

Verb

fas

1. second-person singular present indicative form of fer

Galician

Etymology 1

Verb

fas

1. second-person singular present indicative of facer

Etymology 2

Noun

fas m pl

1. plural of fa

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Verb

fas

1. singular imperative of fasen

Hlai

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hlai) IPA^(key): /fa?/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hlai *f?a?? (“sky”), from Pre-Hlai *fa?? (Norquest, 2015). Compare Proto-Tai *va?? (“sky; weather”) (whence Thai ??? (fáa)).

Noun

fas

1. sky

Etymology 2

From Proto-Hlai *C-wa?? (“sour”), from Pre-Hlai *C-wa?? (Norquest, 2015).

Adjective

fas

1. sour

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?s/

  Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

fas n (genitive singular fass, no plural)

1. deportment, manner

Declension

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fas]
• Hyphenation: fas
• Rhymes: -as

Noun

fas (first-person possessive fasku, second-person possessive fasmu, third-person possessive fasnya)

1. Alternative spelling of vas (“vase”)

Jamaican Creole

Adjective

fas

1. Alternative spelling of fast.

Latin

Alternative forms

• ph?s (medieval)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?os (“utterance, saying”), a derivative of the root *b?eh?- (“to speak”) whence also Latin for, f?r?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fa?s/, [fä?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fas/, [f?s]

Noun

f?s n sg (indeclinable, no genitive)

1. (uncountable) dictates of religion, divine law (opp. i?s, human law), or an obligation thereunder

   hoc contra ius fasque est

   this is against law and divine law

   • Corpus Reformatorum, volume 38, page 235:

     Itaque si fas non est patris, vel filii, patrui vel nepotis uxorem habere in matrimonio, unum et idem de fratris uxore sentire convenit: de qua similis prorsus lex uno contextu et tenore perlata est.

     And so if divine law is that the father, or the son, the uncle or the nephew are not to have a wife in marriage, it comes together as one and the same thing about the brother's wife: from which a similar law is conveyed by means of connecting and grasping [a pattern].

2. (uncountable) the will of God; a predetermined destiny
   • Aeneid I.206:

     illic fas regna resurgere Troiae.

     There it is divine will that the kingdom of Troy shall rise again.

Declension

Not declined; used only in the nominative and accusative singular., singular only.

Derived terms

• f?stus
• nef?s

References

• fas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• fas in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fas in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 203

Middle English

Noun

fas

1. Alternative form of fass

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?fas/

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *vëst?.

Adverb

fas

1. again, once more
2. on the other hand

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

fas

1. imperative of fase

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?s/

Noun

fas n

1. Alternative form of fæs

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

fas c

1. a phase, a time period
2. a phase (angular difference in periodic waves)

   i fas, ur fas

   in phase, out of phase

3. a sloping edge

Declension

Related terms

• fasa
• fasett

References

• fas in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?s/

Noun

fas

1. Soft mutation of bas.

Mutation

Adverb

fas

1. Soft mutation of mas.

Mutation

Wolof

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (faras).

Pronunciation

Noun

fas (definite form fas wi)

1. horse