different between incorrect vs fal

English

Etymology

From Middle French incorrect.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nk????kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt
• Hyphenation: in?cor?rect

Adjective

incorrect (comparative more incorrect, superlative most incorrect)

1. Not correct; erroneous or wrong.

   He gave an incorrect answer to a simple question.

2. Faulty or defective.

   The computer crashed due to incorrect programming.

3. Inappropriate or improper.

   He was sacked because of his incorrect behaviour towards his secretary.

Antonyms

• correct
• right
• proper

Derived terms

• incorrectly
• incorrectness

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French incorrect, from Latin incorr?ctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.k??r?kt/
• Hyphenation: in?cor?rect
• Rhymes: -?kt

Adjective

incorrect (comparative incorrecter, superlative incorrectst)

1. incorrect

Inflection

Synonyms

• fout

Derived terms

• incorrectheid

French

Etymology

From in- +? correct.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.k?.??kt/

Adjective

incorrect (feminine singular incorrecte, masculine plural incorrects, feminine plural incorrectes)

1. incorrect (not correct)
2. incorrect (socially unacceptable)

Derived terms

• incorrectement

See also

• faux

Further reading

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

English

Verb

fal

1. Obsolete spelling of fall
   • 1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie

     By chaunce, in Livias modest company;
     When, after the god-saving ceremony,
     For want of talke-stuffe, fals to foinery;
     Out goes his rapier, and to Livia
     He shewes the ward by puncta reversa

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *spala, from Proto-Indo-European *p?l-, *sp?l- (“to fall”). Cognate to Ancient Greek ?????? (spháll?, “to overthrow”), Lithuanian pùlti (“to attack, rush”), German fallen (“to fall”).

Verb

fal (first-person singular past tense fala, participle falur)

1. I forgive
2. I give (as a present)
3. I pray, am respectful
4. I salute, greet
5. to set (of the sun)

Related terms

• falje
• falë
• falas
• faltore
• faj

References

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?l]
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pad? (“dam, weir”). Cognates include Finnish pato (“dam”).

Noun

fal (plural falak)

2. wall

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Uralic *pala- (“to devour”). Cognates include Finnish palaa (“to burn”).

Verb

fal

2. (transitive) to devour, gorge, wolf, scarf (eat greedily, voraciously, or ravenously)

   Synonyms: zabál, habzsol, tömi magát

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

Further reading

• (wall): fal 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
• (to devour): fal 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

Noun

fal

1. indefinite accusative singular of falur
2. indefinite dative singular of falur

Kott

Alternative forms

• phal

Etymology

From Proto-Yeniseian *?apV ("hotness, sweat"). Compare Assan palá, pfóltu, paltu ("hot").

Adjective

fal

1. hot, warm

Related terms

• ap?k?
• ap?k? ugana?
• ap?k?án
• pala

Ladin

Noun

fal m (plural fai)

1. error

Luxembourgish

Verb

fal

1. second-person singular imperative of falen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse falr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??l/

Adjective

fal (masculine and feminine fal, neuter falt, definite singular and plural fale, comparative falare, indefinite superlative falast, definite superlative falaste)

1. (archaic) for sale
2. (archaic) available

References

• “fal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fal/

Noun

fal f

1. genitive plural of fala

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse falr

Adjective

fal (not comparable)

1. (dated) for sale, that can be bought, bribable, corrupt

   en fal kvinna

   a prostitute

Declension

Related terms

• falbjuda
• falhet

References

• fal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)
• fal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• Alf, alf

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (fa?l).

Noun

fal (definite accusative fal?, plural fallar)

1. fortune telling, omen

Declension

See also

• fala inanma, fals?z da kalma
• falc?
• fal bakmak
• kahve fal?

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English fall and German Fall.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fal/

Noun

fal (nominative plural fals)

1. the action of falling
2. (grammar) grammatical case (in classic or original Volapük (Volapük rigik: kimfal (“nominative”), kimafal (“genitive”), borrowed from German Fall (“case”))

Declension

Derived terms

• däfalön (“to fall to pieces”)
• falayan (“trapdoor, hatch”)
• falön (“to fall”)
• fälön (“to make or cause to fall, to fell”)
• vatafal (“water fall”)