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

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

fala f (plural falas)

1. 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. 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 verb falal.
   • 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

From Old Portuguese fala, 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

• falar

fala

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

• “fala” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “fala” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “fala” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Borrowed from Portuguese falar. Cognates with Kabuverdianu fala.

fala

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

fal +‎ -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

From Latin fala, from Etruscan [Term?].

fala f (plural fale)

1. a siege tower

From Portuguese falar.

fala

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

• phala

From Etruscan [Term?].

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.la/, [ˈfa.ɫa]

fala f (genitive falae); first declension

1. (military) a siege tower

First declension.

• 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 (past falad, active participle falant, passive participle falat)

1. fall

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.la/

• audio

  (file)

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.

• fala in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• falla (obsolete)

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

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.lɐ/

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
3. accent (the way someone speaks)

   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

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:fala.

• (discourse): see Thesaurus:conversa

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

fala

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of falar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of falar

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:falar.

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. (Croatia, colloquial) Nonstandard form of hvála (“thanks”).

fala (ma class, plural mafala)

1. fool (person with poor judgement or little intelligence)

   Synonym: mjinga

fala

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of fal.

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

fala

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

• fakapopofala