Complete Definition of "fa"

see|Appendix:Variations of "fa"
English

Alternative spellings
fah

Etymology
From the first syllable of the Latin word term|famuli, extracted of the poem Mira gestorum famuli tuorum.

Pronunciation
IPA|/f�/
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��|-��

Noun
en-noun|-

  1. music A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth note of a major scale.

See also

do
la
mi
mid
re
so
ti

Category:English two-letter words


Catalan

Etymology 1

Noun
infl|ca|noun

  1. music A syllable used in sol-fa to represent the fourth note of a major scale.

See also

do
re
mi
mid
sol
la
si

Etymology 2
From the Catalan verb fer (to do).

Interjection
infl|ca|interjection

  1. dialectal|lang=ca A particle used in some dialects to emphasize a negative sentence.

#: Fa que no es veu!
#:: literally, �it does that it doesn�t is seen!�, meaning �it�s obvious!�


Hungarian

Etymology
From the same Uralic root *term||puwe as the Finnish and Estonian term|puu.

Noun
fa (plural fák)

  1. Material beneath the bark of the trunk or branches of a tree; wood
  2. tree|Tree.

Derived terms
fatörzs

Adjective
fa

  1. wooden (mostly in compounds)

Category:Hungarian nouns


Italian

Verb form
fa

  1. third person singular present tense of fare#Italian|fare
  2. second person singular imperative of fare ; synonyms fai or fa'

Adverb
infl|it|adverb

  1. ago

Synonyms
prima

Category:Italian verb forms


Lojban

Particle
infl|jbo|particle|cmavo

  1. Indicates that the following word or phrase is the x1 sumti

Related terms

fe
fi
mid
fo
fu

Category:jbo:Cmavo

Pinyin syllable
fa

  1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, f�, fá, f�, or fà.

Usage notes
English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Category:Mandarin pinyin


Scots

Etymology
Variant of E.|sco term|who.

Pronunciation
IPA|/fa/

Pronoun
sco-pron

  1. Doric dialect who

#: Fa's this quine, en?


Swahili

Verb
fa

  1. to die

Category:Swahili verbs


Volapük

Preposition
fa

  1. by (indicating an agent)

de:fa
fr:fa
gl:fa
ko:fa
io:fa
it:fa
ku:fa
hu:fa
nl:fa
ja:fa
pl:fa
ru:fa
st:fa
fi:fa
vi:fa
tr:fa
vo:fa
zh:fa

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