fala

From Latin fābula.

fala f (plural fales)

1. speaking, speech

• falar

fala

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfala/

From Old 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”)
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme XI:

     Quen fala poi escribil

     Those who speak can write

2. second-person singular imperative of falal (“to speak”)

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu [Fala Dictionary]‎, CIDLeS, →ISBN, page 141

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfala̝/

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, A Nosa Terra, n. 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

• falar

fala

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

• “fala” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “fala” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “fala” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “fala” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “fala” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed 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

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

fala f (genitive singular fala, nominative plural falta)

1. grudge, spite, resentment, feud

• 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
• Entries containing “fala” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

From Latin fala, from Etruscan [Term?].

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) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.la/, [ˈfäɫ̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.la/, [ˈfäːlä]

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

From Latin fābula (“discourse, narrative”).

fala f

1. discourse, narrative

• falar

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

16th century, from German Welle, from Middle High German welle, from Proto-Germanic *wallijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, coil”). The onset f- instead of w- is unusual.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.la/

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• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: fa‧la

fala f

1. wave

   Fala turystów wracających z wakacji spowodowała korki na drogach.

   A wave of tourists returning from their holidays caused traffic jams on the roads.

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

• fala in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fala in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: -alɐ
• Homophone: fá-la
• Hyphenation: fa‧la

From Old Portuguese fala, from Latin fābula (“discourse, narrative”), from for (“to speak”), from Proto-Italic *fāðlā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“speak”) + *-dʰleh₂. Compare fábula, a borrowed doublet.

• falla (obsolete)

fala f (plural falas)

1. (uncountable) speech (the ability to speak; the state of not being mute)

   Antonyms: afonia, mudez

2. a speech, a discourse

   A fala da personagem

   The character's speech

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

   Right on time the for his presentation, he forgot his speech.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:conversa

3. accent (the way someone speaks)

   A fala dele é muito engraçada.

   His accent is very funny.

   Synonyms: dicção, linguajar, pronúncia, sotaque

4. a dialect or regional variant of a language

   Synonyms: dialeto, variante

5. a line of dialogue in a screenplay or script

   Ele praticava sua fala, um tanto nervoso.

   He practiced his line, nervously.

6. (Brazil, informal) used to greet someone (equivalent to english sup)

   Fala Rodrigo, beleza?

   Sup Rodrigo, you good?

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fala.

• (dialect):
  • fala de Estremadura
  • fala de Xálima

fala

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:falar.

• 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”).

From English fell or Dutch vellen.

fala

1. to fell

From English fall.

fala

1. to ebb

• fara

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fala (ma class, plural mafala)

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

   Synonym: mjinga

fala

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of fal.

• 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