farë

See also: fare, faré, fâre, and fārè

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *(s)parā, from Proto-Indo-European *sporéh₂ < *sper- (“to spread out”). Compare Ancient Greek σπόρος (spóros, “seed”).[1][2][3] Interpreting farë (“affinity, kind”) as a different word from farë (“seed", semen”), the former is considered by some as a loanword from Lombardic fara (“military clan”).[3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfaɾ(ə)/, [faːɹ]

Noun

farë f (plural fara, definite fara, definite plural farat)

  1. seed
  2. sperm, semen
    Synonym: spermë
  3. descendants, lineage, progeny, offspring

Declension

Declension of farë
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative farë fara fara farat
accusative farën
dative fare farës farave farave
ablative farash

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “farë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 93
  2. ^ Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 223.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Adam Hyllested, Brian D. Joseph (2022) “Albanian”, in Thomas Olander, editor, The Indo-European Language Family : A Phylogenetic Perspective, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 230

Further reading

  • “farë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “farë”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary
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