fala

Inherited from Latin fābula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfala/ [ˈfa.la]
• Hyphenation: fa‧la

fala f (plural fales)

1. speaking, speech

fala

1. third-person singular present indicative of falar
2. second-person singular imperative of falar

• IPA^(key): /ˈfala/
• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: fa‧la

From Old Galician-Portuguese fala, from Latin fābula (“discourse; narrative”).

fala f (countable and uncountable, plural falas)

1. (uncountable, with definite article) Fala (Romance language of northwestern Extremadura)
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme IV, Chapter 2: O “Oiru” i o “Moiru” do diptongu “au” latinu:

     É algu que poi dal traballu a os estudiosus da fala, […]

     It is something which may be complicated for Fala scholars, […]

2. (countable) a language or language variant, especially a minority or regional one
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme I, Chapter 2: Númerus?:

     As lenguas, idiomas, dialectus o falas tenin un-as funciós mui claras desde o principiu dos siglu i si hai contabilizaus en o mundu un-as 8.000 lenguas, ca un-a con sua importancia numérica relativa, a nossa fala é un tesoiru mais entre elas.

     The tongues, languages or regional variants have some very clear functions since the beginning of the centuries and some 8,000 languages have been accounted for in the world, each with its relative numerical importance, our Fala is another treasure among them.

fala

1. third-person singular present indicative of falal (“to speak”)
2. second-person singular imperative of falal (“to speak”)

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fala (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fābula (“discourse; narrative”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfala/ [ˈfa.lɐ]
• Rhymes: -ala
• Hyphenation: fa‧la

fala m (plural falas)

1. voice, speech (faculty of speech)
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Cronica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación "Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa", page 567:

     Ata meodía nõ cobrou sua fala, nẽ seu entendemento.

     Till noon he didn't recover his voice nor his mind

   • 1779, Diego Antonio Cernadas, Obras en Prosa y Verso, Madrid, page 315:

     Co o desexo de acordarvos, que en Galicia o seu funduxe ten a vosa nobre fruxe, vou en Gallego a falarvos: De esto non hai que estrañarvos; antes ben, facendo gala de esta nación, estimá-la, e si porque moito dista, non a conocés de vista, conocedea pola fala

     With the desire to make you remember that in Galicia your noble lineage has its foundation, I'm gonna speak to you in Galician: no need to wonder for this; rather, taking pride of this nation, to love it, and if because of the distance, you don't know it by sight, let's you know it by its speech.

2. a language, a dialect or a sociolect
   • 1859, José Domínguez d'Esquerdo, Entonces e agora ou Coroas e cadeas do fidalgo povo galicián:

     deprende a fala francesa, ingresa ou italián, e non construie a galícea, encolle o lombo, cand'ouce falare do país en que nasceu!

     he learns the French, the English or the Italian languages, but can't elaborate in Galician, he flinches when he hears about the country where he was born!

3. Galego, Galician language
   • 1917, anonymous author, A Nosa Terra, number 7:

     Fai pouco tempo, e ben pouco por nosa indiferenza, qu'un feixe d'homes de vontade de ferro, axuntaronse, formando a santa e nobre Irmandade da Fala.

     Sometime ago, a very short time ago because of our indifference, a handful of men with an iron will, joining together, founded the holy and noble Brotherhood of the Fala.

4. Fala (Galician-Portuguese language of northwestern Extremadura, in Spain)
5. word, tale
6. speech, expression

   Synonym: expresión

fala

1. inflection of falar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fala”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fala”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fala”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fala”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fala”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Portuguese falar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu fala.

fala

1. to say
2. to speak
3. to talk

fal (“wall”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒlɒ]
• Hyphenation: fa‧la

fala

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of fal

fala

1. indefinite genitive plural of falur

• fola

From Middle Irish fola.^[1]

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠɑl̪ˠə/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠɑlə/^[2]
• (Cois Fharraige, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠalˠə/, /ˈfˠal̪ˠə/

fala f (genitive singular fala, nominative plural falta)

1. grudge, spite, resentment, feud

   Tá fala aici liom.

   She has a grudge against me.

• ar eagla na fala thuas (“for fear of the wrath to come; to be morally on the safe side”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fala”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fala”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

From Latin fala, from Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌋𐌀 (fala).

fala f (plural fale)

1. a siege tower

• alfa

From Portuguese falar.

fala

1. speak

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

• phala

From Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌋𐌀 (fala).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfa.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.la]

fala f (genitive falae); first declension

1. (military) a siege tower

First-declension noun.

• falārica

• “fala”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fala in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *palaq, from Proto-Austronesian *palaq.

• IPA^(key): /fala/

fala

1. vagina, vulva

fala

1. alternative form of fela

From Latin fābula (“discourse, narrative”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.la/

fala f (plural falas)

1. discourse, narrative

• falar

• Fala: fala
• Galician: fala
• Portuguese: fala

Borrowed from German Welle.^[1][2][3][4] First attested in 1594.^[5] Displaced wełn.

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• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: fa‧la
• Homophone: Fala

fala f (related adjective falowy)

1. wave (rise in water caused by wind or underwater seismic movements)
2. wave, surge (intensification of some phenomena)
   1. (obsolete) surge, burst, flurry (sudden onset of precipitation)
3. wave, surge (very large number of people gathered in some place and constantly moving somewhere)

   Synonym: przypływ

   Fala turystów wracających z wakacji spowodowała korki na drogach. ― A wave of tourists returning from their holidays caused traffic jams on the roads.

4. wave, surge (sudden appearance of intense feelings and sensations)

   Synonyms: przypływ, (obsolete) przystęp

5. (physics) wave (moving disturbance in the energy level of a field)
6. wave; curl (hairstyle resembling a wave)

   Synonym: karb

7. bullying (teasing from a higher grade to a lower grade in school, etc.)
8. (military) time remaining until the end of military service
9. (military) soldiers from a singular draft
10. wave (moving disturbance, undulation)
11. (physics) wave (moving disturbance in a field)
12. wave (sudden, but temporary, uptick in something)

    Synonyms: nasilenie, przypływ

13. crowd, wave (large group of people)

    Synonym: przypływ

    Hypernym: tłum

14. (Far Masovian, Near Masovian, Podlachia, Kuyavia) temptest; rainstorm; hailstorm windstorm (storm with wind, rain, etc)

    Synonym: nawałnica

    Fala idzie. (Kujawy) ― A windstorm is coming.

• → Belarusian: хва́ля (xválja)
• → Ukrainian: хви́ля (xvýlja)

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), fala is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 65 times in scientific texts, 16 times in news, 8 times in essays, 17 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 110 times, making it the 558th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[6]

• fala in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fala in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Wiesław Morawski (29.11.2018) “FALA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “fala”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “fala”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “fala”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 713
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “fala”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• fala in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
• Zygmunt Wasilewski (1889) “fala”, in Jagodne: wieś w powiecie łukowskim, gminie Dąbie: zarys etnograficzny (in Polish), Warsaw: M. Arct, page 241
• Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “fala”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 107
• Hieronim Łopaciński (1892) “fala”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 194

• falla (pre-standardization spelling)

• Rhymes: -alɐ
• Hyphenation: fa‧la

From Old Galician-Portuguese fala, from Latin fābula (“discourse, narrative”). Doublet of fábula, a learned borrowing.

fala f (countable and uncountable, plural falas)

1. (uncountable) speech (the ability to speak)

   Antonyms: afonia, mudez

2. (countable) something spoken, such as a phrase or line

   É importante analisar a fala da personagem.

   It is important to analyse what the character said.

   Justo na hora de sua apresentação, ele esqueceu sua fala.

   Right at the time of his presentation, he forgot his line.

3. (countable) a way of speaking

   Sua fala é muito engraçada.

   Your way of speaking is very funny.

   1. accent, pronunciation, or enunciation

      Synonyms: dicção, linguajar, pronúncia, sotaque

      A fala dele é sempre arrastada assim? ― Is his pronunciation always so slurred?

      Meu pai sempre tem a fala grave. ― My father always has a serious tone.

   2. a dialect or regional variant of a language

      Synonyms: dialeto, variante

      A fala do Norte é diferente daquela do Sul. ― The northern dialect is different from the southern one.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fala!

1. (Brazil, informal) sup? (used to greet someone)

   Fala, Rodrigo, beleza? ― Sup, Rodrigo, you good?

fala

1. inflection of falar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “fala”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “fala”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “fala”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2025
• “fala”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “fala”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): [ˈfala]

fala f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of fală

From Proto-Polynesian *fala, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [Term?] (compare Indonesian pandan, Hawaiian hala).

fala

1. the screw pine, pandanus (Pandanus tectorius)
2. a woven mat made from the leaves of the pandanus

fala f sg

1. genitive singular of fuil

• IPA^(key): /fǎːla/
• Hyphenation: fa‧la

fála f (Cyrillic spelling фа́ла)

1. (colloquial) nonstandard form of hvála (“thanks”)

fala

1. inflection of far:
   1. second-person singular imperative combined with la
   2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with la

From English fell or Dutch vellen.

fala

1. to fell

From English fall.

fala

1. to ebb

• fara

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fala class V (plural mafala class VI)

1. (derogatory) a fool, an imbecile (person with poor judgement or little intelligence)

   Synonym: mjinga

fala

1. inflection of fal:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

• alfa

Cognate with Tidore fola, Tabaru woa, West Makian pala.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfa.la]

fala

1. house

   fala mari ― stonen house

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Proto-Polynesian *fala, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [Term?] (compare Indonesian pandan, Hawaiian hala).

• IPA^(key): /fa.la/

fala

1. a woven mat usually made from the leaves of the pandanus

• fakapopofala