fal

See also: Fal, FAL, fál, and fàl

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *spala, from Proto-Indo-European *pōl-, *spōl- (“to fall”). Cognate to Ancient Greek σφάλλω (sphállō, “to overthrow”)[1], Lithuanian pùlti (“to attack, rush”), German fallen (“to fall”).

Verb

fal (first-person singular past tense fala, participle falur)

  1. I forgive
  2. I give (as a present)
  3. I pray, am respectful
  4. I salute, greet
  5. to set (of the sun)

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998), “fal”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 93

Hungarian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈfɒl]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *padɜ (“dam, weir”). Cognates include Finnish pato (“dam”). [1][2]

Noun

fal (plural falak)

  1. wall
Declension
Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative fal falak
accusative falat falakat
dative falnak falaknak
instrumental fallal falakkal
causal-final falért falakért
translative fallá falakká
terminative falig falakig
essive-formal falként falakként
essive-modal — —
inessive falban falakban
superessive falon falakon
adessive falnál falaknál
illative falba falakba
sublative falra falakra
allative falhoz falakhoz
elative falból falakból
delative falról falakról
ablative faltól falaktól
Possessive forms of fal
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. falam falaim
2nd person sing. falad falaid
3rd person sing. fala falai
1st person plural falunk falaink
2nd person plural falatok falaitok
3rd person plural faluk falaik
Derived terms
Compound words
Expressions

Etymology 2

From Proto-Uralic *pala- (“to devour”). Cognates include Finnish palaa (“to burn”).

Verb

fal

  1. (transitive) to devour
Conjugation
conjugation of fal
Infinitive falni
Past participle falt
Present participle faló
Future participle falandó
Adverbial participle falva
Potential falhat
1st person sg 2nd person sg informal 3rd person sg,
2nd person sg formal		 1st person pl 2nd person pl informal 3rd person pl,
2nd person pl formal
Indicative mood Present Indefinite falok falsz fal falunk faltok falnak
Definite falom
én téged/titeket
fallak		 falod falja faljuk faljátok falják
Past Indefinite faltam faltál falt faltunk faltatok faltak
Definite faltam
én téged/titeket
faltalak		 faltad falta faltuk faltátok falták
Conditional mood Present Indefinite falnék falnál falna falnánk falnátok falnának
Definite falnám
én téged/titeket
falnálak		 falnád falná falnánk falnátok falnák
Subjunctive mood Present Indefinite faljak falj
or
faljál		 faljon faljunk faljatok faljanak
Definite faljam
én téged/titeket
faljalak		 fald
or
faljad		 falja faljuk faljátok falják
Conjugated infinitive falnom falnod falnia falnunk falnotok falniuk
Derived terms

References
  1. Entry #687 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN

Icelandic

Noun

fal

  1. indefinite accusative singular of falur
  2. indefinite dative singular of falur

Kott

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Yeniseian *ʔapV ("hotness, sweat"). Compare Assan palá, pfóltu, paltu ("hot").

Adjective

fal

  1. hot, warm

Ladin

Noun

fal m (plural fai)

  1. error

Luxembourgish

Verb

fal

  1. second-person singular imperative of falen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse falr

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fɑːl/

Adjective

fal (masculine and feminine fal, neuter falt, definite singular and plural fale, comparative falare, indefinite superlative falast, definite superlative falaste)

  1. (archaic) for sale
  2. (archaic) available

References

Polish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fal/

Noun

fal f

  1. genitive plural of fala

Swedish

Adjective

fal (not comparable)

  1. (dated) for sale, that can be bought, bribable, corrupt
    en fal kvinna
    a prostitute

Declension
Inflection of fal
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular fal — —
Neuter singular falt — —
Plural fala — —
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 fale — —
All fala — —
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.

References

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic فَال‎ (fāl).

Noun

fal (definite accusative falı, plural fallar)

  1. fortune telling, omen

Declension
Inflection
Nominative fal
Definite accusative falı
Singular Plural
Nominative fal fallar
Definite accusative falı falları
Dative fala fallara
Locative falda fallarda
Ablative faldan fallardan
Genitive falın falların
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular falım fallarım
2nd singular falın falların
3rd singular falı falları
1st plural falımız fallarımız
2nd plural falınız fallarınız
3rd plural falları falları

See also
  • fala inanma, falsız da kalma
  • falcı
  • fal bakmak
  • kahve falı

Volapük

Noun

fal (plural fals)

  1. the action of falling
  2. (grammar) grammatical case (in classic or original Volapük (Volapük rigik: kimfal (“nominative”), kimafal (“genitive”), borrowed from German Fall (“case”))

Declension
declension of fal
singular plural
nominative fal fals
genitive fala falas
dative fale fales
accusative fali falis
vocative 1 o fal! o fals!
predicative 2 falu falus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in some later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms
  • däfalön (“to fall to pieces”)
  • falön (“to fall”)
  • fälön (“to make or cause to fall, to fell”)

Compounds
  • falayan (“trapdoor, hatch”)
  • vatafal (“water fall”)
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