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English

Etymology

From Middle English ferten, farten, from Old English feortan, from Proto-Germanic *fertan?, from Proto-Indo-European *perd-.

The noun is from Middle English fert, fart, from the verb.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: färt, IPA^(key): /f??t/
• (General American) enPR: färt, IPA^(key): /f??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Verb

fart (third-person singular simple present farts, present participle farting, simple past and past participle farted)

1. (informal, impolite, intransitive) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.

   Synonyms: beef, blow off, break wind, cut one loose, cut the cheese, flatulate; see also Thesaurus:flatulate
2. (colloquial, intransitive, usually as "fart around") To waste time with idle and inconsequential tasks; to go about one's activities in a lackadaisical manner; to be lazy or over-relaxed in one's manner or bearing.

   Synonyms: futz, fool around, fool about

3. (figuratively, transitive) To emit (fumes, gases, etc.).
   • 1988, Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda, London: Faber and Faber, 1989, Chapter 95, p. 457,^[2]

     Above his head the funnel farted black soot into the sky.

   • 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, New York: Riverhead Books, p. 139,^[3]

     We’ve been stuck behind a Ford Escort farting black smoke for ten minutes.

Usage notes

This term, although considered somewhat impolite, is not generally considered vulgar. It once was, and there still may be some that do consider it to be, so it is best avoided in polite discourse.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

fart (plural farts)

1. (informal) An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus. [from 15th c.]
2. (colloquial, impolite, derogatory) An irritating person; a fool.
3. (colloquial, impolite, derogatory, potentially offensive) (usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• FRTA, RTFA, TRAF, frat, raft, traf

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin fartus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fa?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?fart/

Adjective

fart (feminine farta, masculine plural farts, feminine plural fartes)

1. stuffed
2. fed up

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German vart, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz, cognate with Dutch vaart, German Fahrt, Old Norse ferð. Doublet of færd (“journey”),

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /far?t/, [?f??d?]

Noun

fart c (singular definite farten, plural indefinite farter)

1. (uncountable) speed

   Synonym: (non-technical contexts) hastighed

2. (physics) speed (magnitude of velocity, if seen as a vector)
3. (sailing) trip; journey; trade.

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “fart” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Probably from Norwegian fart (“travel, velocity, speed”), from Middle Low German vart, Old High German vart, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz. Related to German Fahrt (“journey, ride”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?/

Noun

fart m (plural farts)

1. wax (for skis)

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Etymology

far +? -t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?rt]
• Hyphenation: fart

Noun

fart

1. accusative singular of far

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish fart.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /far?t/
• Rhymes: -ar?t

Noun

fart f (genitive singular fartar, no plural)

1. (informal) speed

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German vart, related to fare (“fare, travel”).

Noun

fart m (definite singular farten, indefinite plural farter, definite plural fartene)

1. velocity, speed

   Synonyms: hastighet, tempo

2. movement, motion

   Synonyms: bevegelse, gang

3. transportation

   Synonyms: ferdsel, reise, tur

4. high speed, vigor, drive

   Synonyms: driv, fres, liv

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

fart

1. past participle of fare

References

• “fart” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “fart” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German vart.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?rt/

Noun

fart m (definite singular farten, indefinite plural fartar, definite plural fartane)

1. speed, velocity
2. movement, motion
3. transport, transportation, traffic

Derived terms

References

• “fart” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old High German

Alternative forms

• vart

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fardi, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz, whence also Old English fierd, Old Norse ferð.

Noun

fart f

1. trip
2. ride

Descendants

• German: Fahrt

Polish

Etymology

From German Fahrt, from Old High German vart, from Proto-West Germanic *fardi, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fart/

Noun

fart m inan

1. (colloquial) luck

   Synonym: szcz??cie

   Antonyms: niefart, pech

2. (colloquial) fluke; stroke of luck

   Synonyms: fuks, ?ut szcz??cia

Declension

Further reading

• fart in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• fart in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German vart, from Old Saxon fard. Cognate with Swedish färd, Dutch vaart, German Fahrt.

Pronunciation

Noun

fart c

1. speed
   • 1917, Bible, Jeremiah 48:16:

     Snart kommer Moabs ofärd, och hans olycka hastar fram med fart.

     Soon comes Moab’s calamity, and his misery hastes with speed.

Usage notes

• As a suffix in certain compounds (listed separately below) this word takes on the meaning of "road", "ramp" or "journey", just like German Fahrt or Swedish färd, rather than the standalone meaning of speed. Similar compounds with the suffix -färd exist, with slightly different meaning.
• In many compounds and in more formal or scientific use, speed translates to hastighet (“velocity”) rather than fart.

Declension

Derived terms

Compounds with the meaning of road, ramp, or journey

See also

• fort
• hastighet

English

Alternative forms

• num.

Noun

num (plural nums)

1. Abbreviation of number.
2. (grammar) Abbreviation of numeral.

Anagrams

• Mun, Mun., mun, nmu

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /num/

Noun

num m 

1. man, male

   Synonym: labháytu

2. person

Derived terms

• numóyta (diminutive)

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)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *n? (“now”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /num/, [n???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /num/, [num]

Adverb

num (not comparable)

1. now (only in the phrase etiam num)
2. (in a direct question) a particle usually expecting a negation

   Num Sparta insula est? — Non est insula.

   Sparta's not an island, is it? — No, it's not.

3. (in an indirect question) whether

Derived terms

• numne
• numquid
• nunc

See also

• n?nne

References

• num in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• num in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• num in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Livonian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish nummi.

Noun

num

1. heather

Old French

Noun

num m (oblique plural nuns, nominative singular nuns, nominative plural num)

1. Alternative form of nom

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /n?/
• Rhymes: -?

Etymology 1

Contraction

num m (plural nuns, feminine numa, feminine plural numas)

1. Contraction of em um (“in a”).

Usage notes

The contraction is never obligatory and sometimes avoided in formal written Brazilian Portuguese.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.

Etymology 2

Adverb

num (not comparable)

1. Eye dialect spelling of não.
   • 1871, Júlio César Machado, Da Loucura e das Manias em Portugal, Estudos Humoristicos, Livraria de A. M. Pereira, page 18:

     Eu num estou doido […] !

     I'm not crazy […] !

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.

References

Romansch

Alternative forms

• nom (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin n?men, from Proto-Indo-European *h?nómn? (“name”).

Noun

num m (plural nums)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) name