different between faro vs farl

English

Etymology

Presumably an alteration of pharaon, itself a transcription of French pharaon, perhaps as a name for the King of Hearts.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f?????/
• Rhymes: -?????
• Homophone: pharaoh

Noun

faro (uncountable)

1. (card games) A game of chance played by betting on the order in which certain cards will appear when taken singly from the top of the pack.

Translations

See also

• buck the tiger

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• Afro, Afro-, RAFO, afro, fora

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

faro n (uncountable)

1. a type of beer

Esperanto

Etymology

From fari (“to do”) +? -o (nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?faro/
• Hyphenation: far?o
• Rhymes: -aro
• Audio:

Noun

faro (accusative singular faron, plural faroj, accusative plural farojn)

1. deed (an action or act)

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese faro, from Latin pharus, itself from Ancient Greek ????? (Pháros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?o?/

Noun

faro m (plural faros)

1. lighthouse
2. headlight (of a vehicle)

Derived terms

• Faro

References

• “faro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “faro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “faro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “faro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “faro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?faro/

Noun

faro (plural fari)

1. lighthouse

Italian

Etymology

From Latin pharus, itself from Ancient Greek ????? (Pháros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa.ro/
• Rhymes: -aro

Noun

faro m (plural fari)

1. lighthouse
2. headlight, headlamp

Anagrams

• afro, fora

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *farwaz.

Adjective

faro

1. colored

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *farwaz.

Adjective

faro

1. colored

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

Obscure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa.?u/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?fa.?o/
• Hyphenation: fa?ro

Noun

faro m (plural faros)

1. sense of smell, especially that of an animal

   Synonym: olfato

2. (figuratively) the ability to recognise opportunities

   Synonyms: intuição, visão

Related terms

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pharus, from Ancient Greek ????? (pháros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?o/, [?fa.?o]

Noun

faro m (plural faros)

1. lighthouse
2. beacon
3. headlight, headlamp (of a vehicle)
4. light (bicycle accessory)

Hyponyms

• faro antiniebla
• faro delantero (“headlight, headlamp”)

Derived terms

Related terms

• farol

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??l/

Etymology 1

Contraction of fardel.

Noun

farl (plural farls)

1. (obsolete) A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake.
2. Any such cake or bread, now particularly used for Irish specialities as soda farls and potato farls.

See also

• soda bread
• potato bread

Etymology 2

Verb

farl (third-person singular simple present farls, present participle farling, simple past and past participle farled)

1. Obsolete form of furl.
   • 1647, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The Sea Voyage, Act 1, Scene 1, First Beaumont and Fletcher folio, 1854, Alexander Dyce (editor), The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions, Volume 2, page 416,

     Down with the mainmast ! lay her at hull !

     Farl up all her linens, and let her ride it out !

Anagrams

• larf