fars

fars

1. plural of far

• 'sfar, ASFR, FRAs, FRSA, Fras, RFAs, RSAF, S. Afr., S.Afr.

• IPA^(key): [fɑrs]

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fars (definite accusative farsı, plural farslar)

1. Persian (person)

   Farslar İran əhalisinin təqribən yarısını təşkil edirlər.

   Persians constitute around half of the Iranian population.

2. (in izafet II compounds) Persian

   fars dili ― Persian language

   fars şairləri ― Persian poets

• farsca (“in Persian”)
• farsdilli (“Persian-language; Persian-speaking, Persophone”)

fars

1. plural of far

From French farce (“stuffing”), from Late Latin farsa, from Latin farcīre (“to cram, stuff”).

• IPA^(key): /fars/, [fɑːˀs]

fars c (singular definite farsen, plural indefinite farser)

1. minced meat (bound with flour and eggs)
2. forcemeat

See far (“father”).

• IPA^(key): /fars/, [fɑːs]

fars c

1. indefinite genitive singular of far

• “fars” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from Danish fars. Compare German Farce, Russian фарш (farš).

fars n (genitive singular fars, no plural)

1. finely ground meat or fish (used to make meatballs or fishballs)

fars

1. indefinite genitive singular of far

• Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “fars”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies

Equivalent to farcio +‎ -tis (with assumed syncope in the nominative singular of -r(c)tis to -rs), ending in the noun-forming suffix derived from Proto-Indo-European *-tis; other words that etymologically share this ending include fors and vestis. Compare the use of the neuter far(c)tum as a noun with the sense "stuffing".

*fars f (genitive *fartis); third declension (uncommon)

1. stuffing
   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Mostellaria 169, (Some manuscripts write "fartim", others "partum"; a conjectured alternative is "fartum"):^[1]

     non vestem amatores amant mulieris sed vestis fartim

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2. (figuratively, of persons) cut-up and wounded bodies or body parts; mincemeat
   • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 8, ("fartem" here is a conjectural emendation of manuscript "fratrem"^[2] or "fretis"/"fritis"/"fretum";^[3] alternative conjectured readings include "far(c)tum"^[4] and "stragem",^[5] though the last has been criticized as inappropriate^[4]):

     quae misera gestit ⟨et⟩ f⟨ar⟩tem facere ex hostibus

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The nominative singular *fars is inferred from the attested third-declension oblique forms, which include accusative singular fartim and ablative singular farte; an alternative accusative singular form fartem is conjectured to be the underlying source of the manuscript variants for Plautus Miles Gloriosus 8.

• fartim

• “fars” on page 677/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “farcio”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 216
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “farciō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 202
• Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 488-489

From French farce, attested from 1755.^[1] Doublet of färs.

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fars c

1. a farce; a parody or comedy

• farsartad

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /fɑːrs/, [fɑːʂ]

fars

1. indefinite genitive singular of far

• fras

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

fars (Tifinagh spelling ⴼⴰⵔⵙ)

1. (transitive) to prune, to trim
2. (transitive) to chop, to deforest

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Verbal noun: afras (“cleared field”)
• Tafersit (“Tafersit, a town in Morocco”)