head

The company is looking for people with good heads for business.

He has no head for heights.

It's all about having a good head on your shoulders.

(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.

This song keeps going through my head.

“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”

1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:

(figurative, metonymic) Mind; one's own thoughts.

He found whist, and gymkhanas, and things of that kind (meant to amuse one after office) good; but he took them seriously, too, just as seriously as he took the “head” that followed after drink.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Thrown Away”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., →OCLC, page 15:

"Mornin', Tom," he said in a husky voice. Then as the wife left the room: "Got a drop of Scotch about? I've a head on me this morning."

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.

A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.

a laced head

a head of hair

Admission is three dollars a head.

[…] but here we are obliged to diſcloſe ſome Maxims, which Publicans hold to be the grand Myſteries of their Trade. […] And, laſtly, if any of their Gueſts call but for little, to make them pay a double Price for every Thing they have ; ſo that the Amount by the Head may be much the ſame.

1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VIII, pages 196–197:

(figurative, metonymic) An individual person.

200 head of cattle and 50 head of horses

(plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.

A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.

We have a heavy head of deer this year.

Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite.

Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 175:

During meetings, the supervisor usually sits at the head of the table.

(countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.

(billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.

The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.

(countable) The principal operative part of a machine or tool.

The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.

The principal operative part of a machine or tool.

Hit the nail on the head!

The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.

The head of the compass needle is pointing due north.

The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.

The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.

(lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.

The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.

Tap the head of the drum for this roll.

(music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.

A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.

The heads of your tape player need to be cleaned.

A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.

(computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.

The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.

internal combustion engine
internal combustion engine

(automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.

(machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.

A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.

Pour me a fresh beer; this one has no head.

He never learned how to pour a glass of beer so it didn't have too much head.

(uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.

The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.

en:topmost or foremost part
en:engineering

(engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.

The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.

en:topmost or foremost part
en:coopering

(coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The end cap of a cask or other barrel.

(geology) The uppermost part of a valley.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The uppermost part of a valley.

(countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.

(British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.

Deposits near the top of a geological succession.

The content of a headline over a news story should be taken from the lead of the story. […] The head should give the same impression as the body of the story.

1968, Earl English, Clarence Hach, Scholastic Journalism, page 166:

The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
Short for headline.

(medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.

The end of an abscess where pus collects.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The headstock of a guitar.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
A leading component.
The top edge of a sail.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
A leading component.
The bow of a vessel.

The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
A headland.

A title or heading in a book or other document.

A title or heading in a book or other document.

What does it say at the head of the page?

Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 243:

We saw the last Campaign that an Army of Fourscore Thousand of the best Troops in Europe, with the Duke of Marlborough at the Head of them, cou'd do nothing against an Enemy that were too numerous to be assaulted in their Camps, or attack'd in their Strong Holds.

1708, Joseph Addison, The present state of the war, and the necessity of an augmentation, consider'd, page 33:

(social, countable, metonymic) A leader or expert.

The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.

At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...' / She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking. / As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.

I was called into the head's office to discuss my behaviour.

Only true heads know this.

(music, slang, figurative, metonymic) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.

A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.

I'd like to speak to the head of the department.

Police arrested the head of the gang in a raid last night.

“I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery.[…]”

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

The expedition followed the river all the way to the head.

The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.

A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.

An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.

Give me a head of lettuce.

Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.

2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 2013-08-14:

(anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.

I've got to go to the head.

A significant or important part.
A beginning or end, a protuberance.
(nautical) The toilet of a ship.

A significant or important part.
A beginning or end, a protuberance.
The toilet of a ship.

Heads. (Roofing.) Tiles which are laid at the eaves of a house

1875, Edward H. Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, vol. II, page 1086

(in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.

A significant or important part.
A beginning or end, a protuberance.
Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.

(jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.

The principal melody or theme of a piece.

Holonym: phrase

Linguists will see that we reject some assumptions quite widely held in twentieth-century generative linguistics. The differences are sharp and explicit enough that they should provide grounds for discussion without causing confusion. For example, we do not believe subordinators (‘complementizers’) or coordinators (‘conjunctions’) are heads, and we treat every day as a noun phrase headed by day rather than a determinative phrase headed by every. […] That does not mean we are legislating a theoretical view: it is always possible to stop and ask whether certain facts about syntax are better explained under one theoretical conception rather than another.

2022, Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Brett Reynolds, A Student's Introduction to English Grammar, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page xvi:

(linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.

We are having a difficult time making head against this wind.

We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements.

These issues are going to come to a head today.

Northumberland, thou Ladder wherewithall / The mounting Bullingbrooke aſcends my Throne, / The time ſhall not be many houres of age, / More then it is, ere foule ſinne, gathering head, / Shall breake into corruption […]

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 41:

The indiſpoſition which has long hung upon me, is at laſt grown to ſuch an head, that it muſt quickly make an end of me, or of itſelf.

1712 October 18, anonymous letter in The Spectator, edited by Joseph Addison, no. 513, collected in The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq, Birmingham: John Baskerville, published 1761, volume IV, page 10

(only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.

Let the engine build up a good head of steam.

How much head do you have at the Glens Falls feeder dam?

en:pressure and energy in fluid dynamics

(uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.

A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.

The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.

More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.

More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.

She gave great head.

(slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.

Then I saw the more advanced narcotic addicts, who shot unbelievable doses of powerful heroin in the main line – the vein of their arms; the hysien users; chloroform sniffers, who belonged to the riff-raff element of the dope chippeys, who mingled freely with others of their kind; canned heat stiffs, paragoric hounds, laudanum fiends, and last but not least, the veronal heads.

1936, Lee Duncan, Over The Wall, Dutton:

The term, "head," is, of course, not new with hippies. It has a long history among drug users generally, for whom it signified a regular, experienced user of any illegal drug—e.g., pot "head," meth "head," smack (heroin) "head."

1968, Fred Davis with Laura Munoz, “Heads and freaks: patterns and meanings of drug use among hippies”, in Journal of Health and Social Behavior, volume 9, number 2, pages 156–64:

The hutch now looks like a “Turkish bath,” and the heads have their arms around one another, passing the pipe and snapping their fingers as they sing Smokey Robinson's “Tracks of My Tears” into the night.

2004, Martin Torgoff, “Next Stop is Vietnam”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 177:

(slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.

A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.

My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head:

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 100:

head (countable and uncountable, plural heads or head)

heads (plural)
head (plural)
heed (alternative)
hed (alternative)
'ead (alternative)

have one's head screwed on the right way

know one's head from a hole in the ground

run around like a chicken with its head cut off

would lose one's head if it wasn't attached

would lose one's head if it wasn't bolted on

would lose one's head if it wasn't glued on

would lose one's head if it wasn't screwed on

would lose one's head if it wasn't stuck on

would lose one's head if it wasn't tied on

would lose one's head if it weren't attached

you can't put an old head on young shoulders

you can't put a wise head on young shoulders

→ Japanese: ヘッド (heddo)

Sranan Tongo: ede

Aukan: ede

Saramaccan: hédi

頭

つぶり, tsuburi, つぃぶる, tsiburu, つぃぶるぃ, tsiburi

pää

end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance

pää

principal operative part of a machine or tool

maja

sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer

lapa

top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball

гало́ўка

element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium

гало́ўка

computing: part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data

kansi

end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel

pää

medicine: the end of an abscess where pus collects

kärki

place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position

capçalera

source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it

perusosa

linguistics: morpheme that determines the category of a compound

putouskorkeus

fluid dynamics: difference in elevation in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *káput-
Proto-Germanic *haubudą
Old English hēafod
Middle English heed
English head
From Middle English hed, heed, heved, heaved, from Old English hēafd-, hēafod (“head; top; source, origin; chief, leader; capital”), from Proto-West Germanic *haubud, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *káput. The modern word comes from Old English oblique stem hēafd-, the expected Modern English outcome for hēafod would be *heaved (similar to the Middle English word). Doublet of cape, capo, caput, chef, chief, and Howth.
Cognate with Scots heid, hede, hevid, heved (“head”), Old English hafola (“head”), North Frisian hood (“head”), Dutch hoofd (“head”), German Haupt (“head”), Swedish huvud (“head”), Danish hoved (“head”), Icelandic höfuð (“head”), Latin caput (“head”), Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”), Hindi कपाल (kapāl, “skull”).

inh

head; top; source, origin; chief, leader; capital

Old English hēafd-, hēafod (“head; top; source, origin; chief, leader; capital”)

doublet

Doublet of cape, capo, caput, chef, chief, and Howth


head

Of, relating to, or intended for the head.

hoofd

of, relating to, or intended for the head

heed (alternative)
hed (alternative)
'ead (alternative)


head

Who heads the board of trustees?

to head an army, an expedition, or a riot

(transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)

A group of clowns headed the procession.

The most important items headed the list.

When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was re-enacted at each stop down the line.

1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325:

The citations are set in smaller font, start on a new indented line and are headed with a date.

2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 491:

(transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.

to head the ball

We are going to head up North for our holiday.

We will head off tomorrow.

Next holiday we will head out West, or head to Chicago.

Right now I need to head into town to do some shopping.

I'm fed up working for a boss. I'm going to head out on my own, set up my own business.

Where does the train head to?

To the left towers the Jungfrau, with the train heading directly towards it.

1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752:

(intransitive) To move in a specified direction.

Near-synonyms: behead, dehead

The salmon are first headed and then scaled.

(fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).

a broad purling river, that heads in the great blue ridge of mountains,

1775, James Adair, The History of the American Indians, page 223:

The Templeton heads in the Cloncurry ranges[.]

1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 156:

(intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.

This kind of cabbage heads early.

To be honest, this hasn't been my Garden of Eden year. […] The lettuce turned bitter and bolted. The Green Comet broccoli was good, but my coveted Romanescos never headed up.

1995, Anne Raver, “Gandhi Gardening”, in Deep in the Green: An Exploration of Country Pleasures, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN:

to head a nail

(transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.

to head trees

(transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.

I tell thee, man of God, the uncharitableness of the sect to which thou pertainest has thronged the land of punishment as much as those who headed, and hanged, and stabbed, and shot, and tortured.

1822, Allan Cunningham, “Ezra Peden”, in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, volume 1, page 37:

If you head, and hang all that offend that way
but for ten yeare together; you'll be glad to giue out a
Commission for more heads

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

(transitive, obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.

to head a drove of cattle

to head a person

The wind headed the ship and made progress difficult.

To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.

to head a cask

en-verb

head (third-person singular simple present heads, present participle heading, simple past and past participle headed)

heads (present singular third-person)
heading (participle present)
headed (participle past)
headed (past)
heed (alternative)
hed (alternative)
'ead (alternative)

être en tête de

to come at the beginning of; to commence

alfronti

to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop


head

the head cook

At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXXIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 307:

head sea

head wind

From Middle English heed, from Old English hēafod- (“main”), from Proto-West Germanic *haubida-, derived from the noun *haubid (“head”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian hööft-, West Frisian haad-, Dutch hoofd-, German Low German höövd-, German haupt-.


pumpkin

Nevertheless, the comprehensive comparative analysis of pumpkin viromes across various geographic regions by NGS remains deficient.

2023 August 9, Batchimeg Togoobat, Nan Wu, Xifeng Wang, Mengji Cao, Zhongtian Xu, “Viromic approach reveals differences in the composition, diversity and relative abundance of pumpkin viruses across main growing regions of China”, in Virology, volume 585, →DOI, pages 61-71:

Cucurbita pepo
Cucurbita pepo#Translingual

A domesticated plant, in species Cucurbita pepo, similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.

There were pumpkins in Mombi’s corn-fields, lying golden red among the rows of green stalks; and these had been planted and carefully tended that the four-horned cow might eat of them in the winter time.

1904, L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz:

The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.

pumpkin:

(uncountable) The color of the fruit of the pumpkin plant.

(Australia) Any of a number of cultivars from the genus Cucurbita; known in the US as winter squash.

You must be daddy’s little pumpkin.

1991, John Prine, Pat McLaughlin, “Daddy’s Little Pumpkin”, in The Missing Years (album):

term of endearment
term of endearment#English

(US) A term of endearment for someone small and cute.

en-noun

pumpkin (countable and uncountable, plural pumpkins)

Tok Pisin: pamkin

→ Big Nambas: pavkin

→ Irish: puimcín

→ Japanese: パンプキン (panpukin)

→ Marshallese: baan̄ke

→ Scottish Gaelic: puimcean

Alteration of pompion, pumpion (“pumpkin”) with the diminutive -kin, from Middle French pompon, from Latin pepō (whence English pepo), from Ancient Greek πέπων (pépōn, “large melon”), from πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”), from πέπτω (péptō, “ripen”).
The alternative theory that it may be from Massachusett pôhpukun (“grows forth round”) is false.


name

That which we call a rose
 By any other name would smell as sweet.

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

[…] and whatsoeuer Adam called euery liuing creature, that was the name thereof.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 2:19:

So good a man as this must surely have a name.

Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.

2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:

I've never liked the name my parents gave me so I changed it at the age of twenty.

What's your name?
 Puddintane. Ask me again and I'll tell you the same.

Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord
 Is the immediate jewel of their souls.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

And David won a name for himself.

1952, Old Testament, Revised Standard Version, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2 Samuel 8:13

Stop calling me names!

They list with women each degenerate name.

1697, Virgil, translated by John Dryden, The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

p. 2002, second edition of, 2002, Graham Richards, Putting Psychology in its Place, →ISBN, page 287 http://books.google.com/books?id=7bxvJIs5_wsC&pg=PA287&dq=names
Later British psychologists interested in this topic include such major names as Cyril Burt, William McDougall, […] .

Would it be able to fight the competition from ITC Agro Tech and Liptons who were ready and able to commit large resources? With such big names as competitors, would this business be viable for Marico?

2008 edition of, 1998, S. B. Budhiraja and M. B. Athreya, Cases in Strategic Management page 79 http://books.google.com/books?id=-IaKYHY0sogC&pg=PA79&dq=names

International non-governmental organisations (INGOs), including such household names as Amnesty International, Greenpeace and […] .

2009 third edition of, 1998, Martin Mowforth and Ian Munt, Tourism and Sustainability, page 29 http://books.google.com/books?id=bM6MPBIFwkQC&pg=PA29&dq=names

The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities.

1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

Those of a certain name; a race; a family.

Halt in the name of the law!

We may be quite sure, therefore, that in some shape, if we, the people of England, tolerate the bloody and sanguinary crimes which are committed in our name, if they are so committed, and we do not remonstrate and condemn, we shall have no acquittal at that tribunal by which the actions, not of individuals only, but of nations and peoples, are finally judged.

1881, George Barnett Smith, chapter XVI, in The Life and Speeches of the Right Hon. John Bright, M.P., volume II, London: Hodder and Stroughton, page 541:

(computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.

(UK, finance) An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.

it doesn't matter what they say about you as long as they spell your name right

→ Sranan Tongo: nen

→ Japanese: ネーム (nēmu)

ахьʒ

word or phrase indicating a particular person, place, class or thing

PIE word
 *h₁nómn̥
From Middle English name, nome, from Old English nama, noma, from Proto-West Germanic *namō, from Proto-Germanic *namô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥. Cognates include Saterland Frisian Noome, West Frisian namme, Dutch naam, German Name, Danish navn, Swedish namn, Latin nōmen (whence Spanish nombre), Russian имя (imja), Ashkun nām, Kamkata-viri nom, num, Prasuni nom, nëmë, Waigali nām, Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man). Possible cognates outside of Indo-European include Finnish nimi and Hungarian név. Doublet of nomen and noun.


name

One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.

I will name the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'

A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

He named his demands.

You name it!

You have to pot the ball in the pocket you've named.

The three countries were named in a new study from the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO.
Audio (US): (file)

2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 2019-02-07

naming the problem

(transitive) To identify as relevant or important

The painter was named as an accomplice.

(transitive) To publicly implicate by name.

Police are not naming the suspect as he is a minor.

(transitive, of a person) To disclose the name of.

My neighbor was named to the steering committee.

I must warn the Right Honourable gentleman, that if he persists in his refusal to comply with my order to withdraw [the words "deliberately deceptive"], I shall be compelled to name him.

2013 July 10, John (Speaker of the House of Commons) Bercow, (Please provide the book title or journal name), to MP Nigel Dodds:

(transitive, Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.

en-verb

name (third-person singular simple present names, present participle naming, simple past and past participle named)

names (present singular third-person)
naming (participle present)
named (participle past)
named (past)

my very easy method just speeds up naming planets

(to name after something/someone, used with után)

From Middle English namen, from Old English namian (“to name, mention”) and ġenamian (“to name, call, appoint”), from Proto-West Germanic *namōn (“to name”). Compare also Old English nemnan, nemnian (“to name, give a name to a person or thing”).


name

Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

names (plural)
ñame (alternative)
namé (alternative)

Borrowed from Spanish ñame, substituting n for the unfamiliar Spanish letter ñ. Doublet of yam.


name

Borrowed from Sanskrit नामन् (nāman). Cognate with English name.


name

From Middle High German name, from Old High German namo.


name

(dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of nemen


name

Dutch: naam

Limburgish: naam, naom


name

Dutch: name (mostly in compounds)

From Old Dutch *nāma, from Proto-Germanic *nēmō.


name

names (plural)
namen (plural)
nome (alternative)

English: name

→ Sranan Tongo: nen

→ Japanese: ネーム

Geordie English: nyem

Scots: name, naim, nem, nome

Yola: naame, name, naume

From Old English nama, from Proto-West Germanic *namō, from Proto-Germanic *namô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.


name

Nam, vornam, wort, darnâch
zûwort, teilfanc, zûfûg ich sach,
vorsatz, înworf under irem dach

14th century, Heinrich von Mügeln. Normalised spellings: 1867, Karl Julis Schröer, Die Dichtungen Heinrichs von Mügeln (Mogelîn) nach den Handschriften besprochen, Wien, p. 476

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

ein (indefinite nominative singular)
dër (definite nominative singular)
name (nominative noun singular)
die (definite nominative plural)
namen (nominative noun plural)
eines (genitive indefinite singular)
dës (definite genitive singular)
namen (genitive noun singular)
dër (definite genitive plural)
namen (genitive noun plural)
eime (dative indefinite singular)
dëm (dative definite singular)
namen (dative noun singular)
dën (dative definite plural)
namen (dative noun plural)
einen (accusative indefinite singular)
dën (accusative definite singular)
namen (accusative noun singular)
die (accusative definite plural)
namen (accusative noun plural)
nam (alternative)

Alemannic German: Naame

Italian Walser: namä, noame, nomu, nàmund

Bavarian: Nama, Nam, Nåm

Cimbrian: nåm, name, naamo

Mòcheno: nu'm

Udinese: nome, nòmm, nome, nomat

German: Name, Namen

Luxembourgish: Numm

Rhine Franconian:

Pennsylvania German: Naame

Yiddish: נאָמען (nomen)

Inherited from Old High German namo, from Proto-West Germanic *namō.


name

Acipenser fulvescens
Acipenser fulvescens#Translingual

sturgeon, especially lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens)

oj-noun

name anim (plural namewag, diminutive namens)

Potawatomi: namé (“sturgeon”)

Inherited from Proto-Algonquian *name·wa.


name

singular optative active of namati (“to bend”)


name

wi vengem o' core t'gie oure zense o' ye gradès whilke be ee-dighte wi yer name;

1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 6-7:

to pour forth from the strength of our hearts, our sense of the qualities which characterise your name,

wee hert ee zough o'ye colure o' pace na name o' Mulgrave.

1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 8-9:

we heard the distant sound of the wings of the dove of peace, in the word Mulgrave.


name

From Proto-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.


portmanteau word

Well, ‘slithy’ means ‘lithe and slimy.’ ‘Lithe’ is the same as ‘active.’ You see it’s like a portmanteau⸺there are two meanings packed up into one word.

[1871 December 27 (indicated as 1872), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Humpty Dumpty”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, pages 126–127:

He found the blend "tomax" in "a collection of gratulatory verses presented by the President and Fellows of Harvard College 1 to the new King, George III," dated 1761. A note by the owner of the volume explains the word as a combination of tomahawk and axe: "It is a portmanteau word, which must have been as clear to the average reader in England of 1761 — as clear to George III himself - as brillig and slithy would have been to us, had not Humpty Dumpty kindly explained them."

1938, Joane Chaffe Miller, Conversion and Fusion in Modern English: A Concise History of the Scholarly Recognition of These Linguistic Processes:

1. Portmanteau Words and Allomorphy - This paper is primarily concerned with the theoretical implications of what have been called portmanteau words (Hockett, 1947)

1985, Carlos Piera of Cornell University, “On the Representation of Higher Order Complex Words”, in Selected Papers from the XIIIth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Chapel Hill, N.C., 24-26 March 1983, page 287:

One reason for the popularity of portmanteau words in naming language hybrids may be the fact that the names themselves embody a type of hybridity.

2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10:

(linguistics) A word which combines the meaning of two words (or, rarely, more than two words), formed by combining the words, usually, but not always, by adjoining the first part of one word and the last part of the other, the adjoining parts often having a common vowel.

en-noun

portmanteau word (plural portmanteau words)

สมาส

of compounds of Pali and Sanskrit loanwords

First used by Lewis Carroll in 1871, based on the concept of two words packed together, like a portmanteau (“a travelling case having two halves joined by a hinge”).


f

The sixth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation of IPA [fa: afa:] with the sound [f]

Modification of upper case Latin letter F, from Greek Ϝ (W, “Digamma”), from Phœnician 𐤅 (W, “waw”), the ultimate source being probably Egyptian.


f

(IPA) a voiceless labiodental fricative.

(superscript ⟨ᶠ⟩, IPA) [f]-fricated release of a plosive (e.g. [pᶠ], sometimes implying an affricate [p͜f]); [f]-coloring; or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [f].


f

The sixth letter of the English alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.

head

f (lower case, upper case F, plural fs or f's)

Old English lower case letter f, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case f of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚠ (f, “fe”).


f

The ordinal number sixth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.


f

(music) The name of the fourth tone of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F♯) is a tone intermediate between F and G.

Abbreviations.
f
# (Stenoscript) Abbreviation of for.
# (Stenoscript) prefix for-.
# (Stenoscript) suffix/sequence for(e).

ng

prefix <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">for-</i>.


f

(printing, abbreviation) Folio, paper and book size (10"-12.5" x 15"-20")

What the f do you think you're doing?

Alternative form: f.


f

The eighth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, called fe and written in the Latin script.


f

The sixth letter of the Basque alphabet, called efe and written in the Latin script.


f

The sixth letter of the Catalan alphabet, called efa, efe, or ef and written in the Latin script.


f

The eleventh letter of the Czech alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

The sixth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

The seventh letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called fo and written in the Latin script.


f

The sixth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called eff and written in the Latin script.


f

The seventh letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

The sixth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called äf or ef and written in the Latin script.

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and f for information on the development of the glyph itself.


f

fi-decl-table

f (Kotus type 10/koira)

f (nominative singular)
f:t (nominative plural)
f:n (genitive singular)
f:ien (genitive plural)
f:ää (partitive singular)
f:iä (partitive plural)
f (accusative singular)
f:n (accusative singular)
f:t (accusative plural)
f:ssä (inessive singular)
f:issä (inessive plural)
f:stä (elative singular)
f:istä (elative plural)
f:ään (illative singular)
f:iin (illative plural)
f:llä (adessive singular)
f:illä (adessive plural)
f:ltä (ablative singular)
f:iltä (ablative plural)
f:lle (allative singular)
f:ille (allative plural)
f:nä (essive singular)
f:inä (essive plural)
f:ksi (singular translative)
f:iksi (plural translative)
f:ttä (abessive singular)
f:ittä (abessive plural)
f:in (instructive plural)
f:ineen (comitative plural)


f

The sixth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

The eleventh letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called eff and written in the Latin script.

F (uppercase)
f (nominative singular)
f-ek (nominative plural)
f-et (accusative singular)
f-eket (accusative plural)
f-nek (dative singular)
f-eknek (dative plural)
f-fel (instrumental singular)
f-ekkel (instrumental plural)
f-ért (causal-final singular)
f-ekért (causal-final plural)
f-fé (singular translative)
f-ekké (plural translative)
f-ig (singular terminative)
f-ekig (plural terminative)
f-ként (essive-formal singular)
f-ekként (essive-formal plural)
f-ben (inessive singular)
f-ekben (inessive plural)
f-en (singular superessive)
f-eken (plural superessive)
f-nél (adessive singular)
f-eknél (adessive plural)
f-be (illative singular)
f-ekbe (illative plural)
f-re (singular sublative)
f-ekre (plural sublative)
f-hez (allative singular)
f-ekhez (allative plural)
f-ből (elative singular)
f-ekből (elative plural)
f-ről (delative singular)
f-ekről (delative plural)
f-től (ablative singular)
f-ektől (ablative plural)
f-é (singular)
f-eké (plural)
f-éi (singular)
f-ekéi (plural)
f-em (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
f-jeim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
f-ed (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
f-jeid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
f-je (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
f-jei (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
f-ünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
f-jeink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
f-etek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
f-jeitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
f-jük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
f-jeik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


f

The eighth letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

The sixth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

The sixth letter of the Indonesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

The sixth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Ḃ ḃ

dotted letters used chiefly in Gaelic type


f

The sixth letter of the Italian alphabet, called effe and written in the Latin script.

head

f f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case F)


f

The sixth letter of the Kankanaey alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.

Borrowed from Tagalog f. Letter pronunciation is influenced by English f.


f

The tenth letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and f for development of the glyph itself.


f

A letter in the Latin alphabet, representing the sound /f/


f

The ninth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.


f

The tenth letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

The sixth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

The sixth letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

A letter of the North Frisian alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

The sixth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

The seventh letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

A letter of the Old English alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

The ninth letter of the Polish alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.

The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and f for development of the glyph itself.


f

The sixth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

(International Standard) The eighth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

(Pan-Vlax) The ninth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

The eighth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called ef, fe, or fî and written in the Latin script.


f

The sixth letter of the Scottish Gaelic alphabet, written in the Latin script. It is preceded by e and followed by g. Its traditional name is feàrna (“alder”).


f

Abbreviation of feasgar (“(in the) afternoon, post meridiem”); pm, p.m.


f

The 10th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by e and followed by g.


f

(Kajkavian) in, at (location) [with locative]

(Kajkavian) to, into (direction) [with accusative]

(Kajkavian) on, in, at, during (time) [with accusative]

(Kajkavian) in, during (time) [with accusative]


f

The eighth letter of the Silesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and f for development of the glyph itself.


f

The eleventh letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

The thirteenth letter of the Slovak alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

The seventh letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script.

The tenth letter of the Slovene alphabet (Resian), written in the Latin script.

The seventh letter of the Slovene alphabet (Natisone Valley dialect), written in the Latin script.

-ɛf (ə̀, èf) stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn

From Gaj's Latin alphabet f, from Czech alphabet f, which is a modification of upper case Latin letter F, from Greek Ancient Greek letter Ϝ (W, “digamma”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤅 (w, “waw”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓏲. Pronunciation as IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /fə/ is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably taken from German f.


f

(SNPT) Phonetic transcription of sound [f].


f

The name of the Latin script letter F / f.

(linguistics) The name of the phoneme /f/.

f (nominative singular)
f-ja (dual nominative)
f-ji (nominative plural)
f-ja (genitive singular)
f-jev (dual genitive)
f-jev (genitive plural)
f-ju (dative singular)
f-ji (dative singular)
f-jema (dative dual)
f-jem (dative plural)
f (accusative singular)
f-ja (accusative dual)
f-je (accusative plural)
f-ju (locative singular)
f-ji (locative singular)
f-jih (dual locative)
f-jih (locative plural)
f-jem (instrumental singular)
f-jema (dual instrumental)
f-ji (instrumental plural)
f (singular vocative)
f-ja (dual vocative)
f-ji (plural vocative)
f (nominative singular)
f-a (dual nominative)
f-i (nominative plural)
f-a (genitive singular)
f-ov (dual genitive)
f-ov (genitive plural)
f-u (dative singular)
f-i (dative singular)
f-oma (dative dual)
f-om (dative plural)
f (accusative singular)
f-a (accusative dual)
f-e (accusative plural)
f-u (locative singular)
f-i (locative singular)
f-ih (dual locative)
f-ih (locative plural)
f-om (instrumental singular)
f-oma (dual instrumental)
f-i (instrumental plural)
f (singular vocative)
f-a (dual vocative)
f-i (plural vocative)
f (nominative singular)
f (dual nominative)
f (nominative plural)
f (genitive singular)
f (dual genitive)
f (genitive plural)
f (dative singular)
f (dative dual)
f (dative plural)
f (accusative singular)
f (accusative dual)
f (accusative plural)
f (locative singular)
f (dual locative)
f (locative plural)
f (instrumental singular)
f (dual instrumental)
f (instrumental plural)
f (singular vocative)
f (dual vocative)
f (plural vocative)
f (nominative singular)
f-ja (dual nominative)
f-ji (nominative plural)
f-ja (genitive singular)
f-jov (dual genitive)
f-jov (genitive plural)
f-ju (dative singular)
f-ji (dative singular)
f-joma (dative dual)
f-jom (dative plural)
f (accusative singular)
f-ja (accusative dual)
f-je (accusative plural)
f-ju (locative singular)
f-ji (locative singular)
f-jih (dual locative)
f-jih (locative plural)
f-jom (instrumental singular)
f-joma (dual instrumental)
f-ji (instrumental plural)
f (singular vocative)
f-ja (dual vocative)
f-ji (plural vocative)


f

(slang, euphemistic, usually in phrase f you / f ju) fuck

From f, an abbreviation for fuck, from Middle English *fukken, probably from Proto-Germanic *fukkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to strike, punch, stab”).


f

Ne vem kaj za f je narobe z mano.

I don't know what the f is wrong with me.

(slang, euphemistic, usually in nominative case) fuck

f (nominative singular)
f (dual nominative)
f (nominative plural)
f (genitive singular)
f (dual genitive)
f (genitive plural)
f (dative singular)
f (dative dual)
f (dative plural)
f (accusative singular)
f (accusative dual)
f (accusative plural)
f (locative singular)
f (dual locative)
f (locative plural)
f (instrumental singular)
f (dual instrumental)
f (instrumental plural)
f (singular vocative)
f (dual vocative)
f (plural vocative)
f (nominative singular)
f-a (dual nominative)
f-i (nominative plural)
f-a (genitive singular)
f-ev (dual genitive)
f-ev (genitive plural)
f-u (dative singular)
f-i (dative singular)
f-ema (dative dual)
f-em (dative plural)
f (accusative singular)
f-a (accusative dual)
f-e (accusative plural)
f-u (locative singular)
f-i (locative singular)
f-ih (dual locative)
f-ih (locative plural)
f-em (instrumental singular)
f-ema (dual instrumental)
f-i (instrumental plural)
f (singular vocative)
f-a (dual vocative)
f-i (plural vocative)


f

I ko ne vrjameš več v njega, on še skus vrjame f tebe.

2020 July 24, “Dejo: Pa kdu je ta Branko?”, in Radio Odeon:

And when you don't believe in him anymore, he still believes in you.

(dialectal, particularly eastern dialects, with accusative) into, in

(dialectal, particularly eastern dialects, with locative) in, at

A dialectal variant of v made by analogy to s/z in dialects where [w] turned into [v] and got its devoiced part, [f].


f

The sixth letter of the Spanish alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.


f

The sixth letter of the Swedish alphabet, written in the Latin script.


f

The sixth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Filipino alphabet), called ef and written in the Latin script.

tl-letter

f (lower case, upper case F, Baybayin spelling ᜁᜉ᜔)

(more native-sounding) -ep (letter name, Filipino alphabet)

(more native-sounding) -epe (letter name, Abecedario)

Borrowed from Spanish f. Each pronunciation has a different source:
* Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English f.
* Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish f.


f

(historical) The seventh letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Abecedario), called efe and written in the Latin script.

f (lower case, upper case F, Baybayin spelling ᜁᜉᜒ)


f

The seventh letter of the Turkish alphabet, called fe and written in the Latin script.


f

The seventh letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called fe and written in the Latin script.


f

The eighth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called èf and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by e and followed by ff.


f

The sixth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called fí and written in the Latin script.


f

The sixth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.


fa

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Persian.


fa

And now Mrs. Waters (for we muſt confeſs ſhe was in the ſame Bed) being, I ſuppoſe, awakened from her Sleep, and ſeeing two Men fighting in her Bed-chamber, began to ſcream in the moſt violent Manner, crying out Murder! Robbery! and more frequently Rape! which laſt, ſome, perhaps, may wonder ſhe ſhould mention, who do not conſider that theſe Words of Exclamation are uſed by Ladies in a Fright, as Fa, la, la, ra, da, &c. are in Muſic, only as the Vehicles of Sound, and without any fixed Ideas.

1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing the Arrival of an Irish Gentleman, with very extraordinary Adventures which ensued at the Inn”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book X, pages 11–12:

(music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale.

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English fa (“fourth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian fa in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin famulī (“servants”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.


fa

Do ya wanna be a dope fiend fa krist’s sake?

2000, Requiem for a Dream, spoken by Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto):


fa

(music) fa (fourth note of diatonic scale)


fa

third-person singular present indicative of fer

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


fa

fa molts anys...


fa

Fa que no es veu!

(dialectal) a particle used in some dialects to emphasize a negative sentence


fa

(music) fa (fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) musical note)

fa's (plural)
faatje (diminutive neuter)


fa

(music) fa, the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note 'F'


fa

Meronyms: rügy, hajtás, vessző, gally, ág, törzs, gyökér, levél, lomb, korona, termés, gyümölcs

wood (substance beneath the bark of the trunk or branches of a tree)

(graph theory) tree (connected graph with no cycles)

(computing theory) tree (recursive data structure)

head

fa (countable and uncountable, plural fák)

fák (plural)
fa (nominative singular)
fák (nominative plural)
fát (accusative singular)
fákat (accusative plural)
fának (dative singular)
fáknak (dative plural)
fával (instrumental singular)
fákkal (instrumental plural)
fáért (causal-final singular)
fákért (causal-final plural)
fává (singular translative)
fákká (plural translative)
fáig (singular terminative)
fákig (plural terminative)
faként (essive-formal singular)
fákként (essive-formal plural)
fában (inessive singular)
fákban (inessive plural)
fán (singular superessive)
fákon (plural superessive)
fánál (adessive singular)
fáknál (adessive plural)
fába (illative singular)
fákba (illative plural)
fára (singular sublative)
fákra (plural sublative)
fához (allative singular)
fákhoz (allative plural)
fából (elative singular)
fákból (elative plural)
fáról (delative singular)
fákról (delative plural)
fától (ablative singular)
fáktól (ablative plural)
fáé (singular)
fáké (plural)
fáéi (singular)
fákéi (plural)
fám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
fáim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
fád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
fáid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
fája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
fái (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
fánk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
fáink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
fátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
fáitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
fájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
fáik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From Proto-Uralic *puwe. Cognates include Finnish puu.


fa

gurab Alba fá hainm don chrích sin

2014 [1628–1634], Geoffrey Keating, edited by Beatrix Färber, David Comyn, Patrick S. Dinneen, Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts:

Is leomhan Ó mBriun an bhean / siur ga seoladh [ar] a son, / síol na n-ealta fa díon damh, / síol glan nach ba creachta ar gcrodh.

1939 [c. 13th century], “Bean ós mhnáibh cáich Cailleach Dé”, in Lambert McKenna, editor, Aithdioghluim Dána, Dublin:

A lion-hero of the Í Bhriuin is this lady, a sister that guides them by her words; noble the offspring of that flock, my guardians (ensuring) that all I own be safe from harrying.

Obsolete form of ba (“was”) (past affirmative and relative of is).

ba

fá (alternative)
ba (alternative)
badh (alternative)
budh (alternative)


fa

Obsolete form of um (“about, concerning”).


fa

third-person singular present indicative of fare


fa

The katakana syllable ファ (fa) in Hepburn-like romanization.


fa

fa (intensive aorist yettfay, aorist ifa, preterite ifa, negative preterite ifa)

yettfay (aorist emphatic)
ifa (aorist)
ifa (preterite)
ifa (negative preterite)


fa

(music) fa, the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note 'F'.


fa

fa m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

From Old Irish fáth, from Proto-Celtic *wātus (“inspired utterance”) (compare Welsh gwawd (“song, praise, poetry”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t-.


fa

From the oblique stem of Old English ġefāh.


fa

third-person singular present indicative of fà


fa

From Proto-Polynesian *fa, from Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.


fa

(music) fa, a syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale.

fa-en (definite singular)
fa-ar (indefinite plural)
fa-ane (definite plural)

From Latin famuli, from the first word of the fourth line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn on which solfège was based because its lines started on each note of the scale successively. Through Italian.


fa

Saterland Frisian: fange

West Frisian: fange

From Proto-West Germanic *fą̄han, from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną. Cognates include Old English fōn, Old Saxon fāhan and Old Dutch fān.


fa

Apparently a derivative of some form of the copula is that is from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.

fá (alternative)
ba (alternative)
bá (alternative)


fa

fā (canonical)
fā (infinitive present)
fāndi (participle present)
-e (participle present)
fangin (sup. fāt) (participle)
fār (first-person indicative present singular)
fǣr (first-person indicative present singular)
fā- (first-person present singular subjunctive)
-i (first-person present singular subjunctive)
-e (first-person present singular subjunctive)
fik (first-person indicative present singular)
fæk (first-person indicative present singular)
fingi (first-person past singular subjunctive)
finge (first-person past singular subjunctive)
fār (indicative present second-person singular)
fǣr (indicative present second-person singular)
fā- (present second-person singular subjunctive)
-i (present second-person singular subjunctive)
-e (present second-person singular subjunctive)
fā (imperative present second-person singular)
fikt (indicative present second-person singular)
fingi (past second-person singular subjunctive)
finge (past second-person singular subjunctive)
fār (indicative present singular third-person)
fǣr (indicative present singular third-person)
fā- (present singular subjunctive third-person)
-i (present singular subjunctive third-person)
-e (present singular subjunctive third-person)
fik (indicative present singular third-person)
fæk (indicative present singular third-person)
fingi (past singular subjunctive third-person)
finge (past singular subjunctive third-person)
fām (first-person indicative plural present)
-um (first-person indicative plural present)
-om (first-person indicative plural present)
fām (first-person plural present subjunctive)
-um (first-person plural present subjunctive)
-om (first-person plural present subjunctive)
fām (first-person imperative plural present)
-um (first-person imperative plural present)
-om (first-person imperative plural present)
fingum (first-person indicative plural present)
fingom (first-person indicative plural present)
fingum (first-person past plural subjunctive)
fingom (first-person past plural subjunctive)
fān (indicative plural present second-person)
-in (indicative plural present second-person)
fān (plural present second-person subjunctive)
-in (plural present second-person subjunctive)
fān (imperative plural present second-person)
-in (imperative plural present second-person)
fingin (indicative plural present second-person)
fingin (past plural second-person subjunctive)
fā (indicative plural present third-person)
fān (plural present subjunctive third-person)
-in (plural present subjunctive third-person)
fingu (indicative plural present third-person)
fingo (indicative plural present third-person)
fingin (past plural subjunctive third-person)

Swedish: få

From Old Norse fá, from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną.


fa

Fa's this quine, en?


fa

(Argentina) ew, phew (expression of disgust)


fa

third-person singular present indicative

inflection of far:
second-person singular imperative

inflection of far:
second-person singular voseo imperative


fa

Short for a phrase such as fa fu yu? or fa a e go?


fa

-fa (canonical)
kufa (infinitive)
kufa (infinitive)
kutokufa (infinitive negative)
kufa (imperative singular)
kufeni (imperative plural)
hufa (habitual)
positive subject concord + -likufa (past)
negative subject concord + -kufa (negative past)
ninakufa (first-person present singular)
nakufa (first-person present singular)
tunakufa (first-person plural present)
unakufa (present second-person singular)
mnakufa (plural present second-person)
anakufa (class-1 class-2 present singular third-person)
wanakufa (class-1 class-2 plural present third-person)
positive subject concord + -nakufa (present third-person)
sifi (first-person negative present singular)
hatufi (first-person negative plural present)
hufi (negative present second-person singular)
hamfi (negative plural present second-person)
hafi (class-1 class-2 negative present singular third-person)
hawafi (class-1 class-2 negative plural present third-person)
negative subject concord + -fi (negative present third-person)
positive subject concord + -takufa (future)
negative subject concord + -takufa (future negative)
nife (first-person singular subjunctive)
tufe (first-person plural subjunctive)
ufe (second-person singular subjunctive)
mfe (plural second-person subjunctive)
afe (class-1 class-2 singular subjunctive third-person)
wafe (class-1 class-2 plural subjunctive third-person)
positive subject concord + -fe (subjunctive third-person)
positive subject concord + -sife (negative subjunctive)
positive subject concord + -ngekufa (irrealis present)
positive subject concord + -singekufa (irrealis negative present)
positive subject concord + -ngalikufa (irrealis past)
positive subject concord + -singalikufa (irrealis negative past)
nafa (first-person gnomic singular)
twafa (first-person gnomic plural)
wafa (gnomic second-person singular)
mwafa (gnomic plural second-person)
afa (class-1 class-2 gnomic singular third-person)
wafa (class-1 class-2 gnomic plural third-person)
wafa (class-3 class-4 gnomic singular third-person)
yafa (class-3 class-4 gnomic plural third-person)
lafa (class-5 class-6 gnomic singular third-person)
yafa (class-5 class-6 gnomic plural third-person)
chafa (class-7 class-8 gnomic singular third-person)
vyafa (class-7 class-8 gnomic plural third-person)
yafa (class-10 class-9 gnomic singular third-person)
zafa (class-10 class-9 gnomic plural third-person)
wafa (class-11 gnomic singular third-person)
kwafa (class-15 class-17 gnomic singular third-person)
pafa (class-16 gnomic singular third-person)
mwafa (class-18 gnomic singular third-person)
positive subject concord + -mekufa (perfect)
positive subject concord + -meshakufa (already-form)
negative subject concord + -jafa (not-yet-form)
positive subject concord + -kifa (if-when-form)
positive subject concord + -sipokufa (if-not-form)
kafa / positive subject concord + -kafa (consecutive)
positive subject concord + -kafe (consecutive subjunctive)
-nifa (first-person indicative object-concord singular)
-tufa (first-person indicative object-concord plural)
-kufa (indicative object-concord second-person singular)
-wafa (indicative object-concord plural second-person)
-kufeni (indicative object-concord plural second-person)
-wafeni (indicative object-concord plural second-person)
-mfa (class-1 class-2 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-wafa (class-1 class-2 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-ufa (class-3 class-4 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-ifa (class-3 class-4 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-lifa (class-5 class-6 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-yafa (class-5 class-6 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-kifa (class-7 class-8 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-vifa (class-7 class-8 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-ifa (class-10 class-9 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-zifa (class-10 class-9 indicative object-concord plural third-person)
-ufa (class-11 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-kufa (class-15 class-17 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-pafa (class-16 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-mufa (class-18 indicative object-concord singular third-person)
-jifa (indicative object-concord reflexive)
-faye (class-1 class-2 object-concord relative singular)
-fao (class-1 class-2 object-concord plural relative)
-fao (class-3 class-4 object-concord relative singular)
-fayo (class-3 class-4 object-concord plural relative)
-falo (class-5 class-6 object-concord relative singular)
-fayo (class-5 class-6 object-concord plural relative)
-facho (class-7 class-8 object-concord relative singular)
-favyo (class-7 class-8 object-concord plural relative)
-fayo (class-10 class-9 object-concord relative singular)
-fazo (class-10 class-9 object-concord plural relative)
-fao (class-11 object-concord relative singular)
-fako (class-15 class-17 object-concord relative singular)
-fapo (class-16 object-concord relative singular)
-famo (class-18 object-concord relative singular)
-yekufa (class-1 class-2 object-concord relative singular)
-okufa (class-1 class-2 object-concord plural relative)
-okufa (class-3 class-4 object-concord relative singular)
-yokufa (class-3 class-4 object-concord plural relative)
-lokufa (class-5 class-6 object-concord relative singular)
-yokufa (class-5 class-6 object-concord plural relative)
-chokufa (class-7 class-8 object-concord relative singular)
-vyokufa (class-7 class-8 object-concord plural relative)
-yokufa (class-10 class-9 object-concord relative singular)
-zokufa (class-10 class-9 object-concord plural relative)
-okufa (class-11 object-concord relative singular)
-kokufa (class-15 class-17 object-concord relative singular)
-pokufa (class-16 object-concord relative singular)
-mokufa (class-18 object-concord relative singular)


fa

head

fa (definite accusative fayı, plural falar)

fayı (accusative definite)
falar (plural)


fa

win edeng fa iunge


fa

From Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.


fa

mo fa aṣọ

eéwó t'ó wú ti fà

ó fa ìlà sórí ìwé

ọ̀lẹ́ fà tìì lẹ́nu iṣẹ́

ọbẹ̀ ewédú náàá fà

to be elastic, to be mucilaginous (as a soup or stew), to draw

bí ìgbín fà, ìkarahun á tẹ̀lé e

When the snail crawls its shell shall follow it

ìyà púpọ̀ ni ó fa ẹkún

Too much suffering is the cause of weeping

ọkàn àwọn ọmọ́ fà mí

Yoruba Varieties and Languages - fàview map

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i.e. Southeast Yorùbá, Northwest Yorùbá, Central Yorùbá, and Northeast Yorùbá

now deemed dialects of Yorùbá in Nigeria

have converged with those of Standard Yorùbá leading to the creation of what can be labeled Common Yorùbá. It can be assumed that the Standard Yorùbá term can also be used in most Nigerian varieties alongside native terms

especially amongst younger speakers. This does not apply to the other Nigerian Yoruboid languages of Ìṣẹkírì and Olùkùmi


fa

alápatàá fá awọ náà

mo fá irun abíyá


fa

-fá (canonical)
ukufa (infinitive)
ukungafi (infinitive negative)
yifa (imperative singular)
-fe (imperative object-concord singular)
yifani (imperative plural)
-feni (imperative object-concord plural)
ngiyafa (first-person present singular)
ngifa (first-person present singular)
engifayo (first-person present singular)
engifa (first-person present singular)
angifi (first-person present singular)
engingafi (first-person present singular)
ngingafi (first-person present singular)
uyafa (present second-person singular)
ufa (present second-person singular)
ofayo (present second-person singular)
ofa (present second-person singular)
awufi (present second-person singular)
ongafi (present second-person singular)
ungafi (present second-person singular)
siyafa (first-person plural present)
sifa (first-person plural present)
esifayo (first-person plural present)
esifa (first-person plural present)
asifi (first-person plural present)
esingafi (first-person plural present)
singafi (first-person plural present)
niyafa (plural present second-person)
nifa (plural present second-person)
enifayo (plural present second-person)
enifa (plural present second-person)
anifi (plural present second-person)
eningafi (plural present second-person)
ningafi (plural present second-person)
uyafa (present)
ufa (present)
ofayo (present)
ofa (present)
efa (present)
akafi (present)
ongafi (present)
engafi (present)
bayafa (present)
bafa (present)
abafayo (present)
abafa (present)
befa (present)
abafi (present)
abangafi (present)
bengafi (present)
awufi (present)
ungafi (present)
iyafa (present)
ifa (present)
efayo (present)
ayifi (present)
ingafi (present)
liyafa (present)
lifa (present)
elifayo (present)
elifa (present)
alifi (present)
elingafi (present)
lingafi (present)
ayafa (present)
afa (present)
afayo (present)
awafi (present)
angafi (present)
siyafa (present)
sifa (present)
esifayo (present)
esifa (present)
asifi (present)
esingafi (present)
singafi (present)
ziyafa (present)
zifa (present)
ezifayo (present)
ezifa (present)
azifi (present)
ezingafi (present)
zingafi (present)
luyafa (present)
lufa (present)
olufayo (present)
olufa (present)
alufi (present)
olungafi (present)
lungafi (present)
buyafa (present)
bufa (present)
obufayo (present)
obufa (present)
abufi (present)
obungafi (present)
bungafi (present)
kuyafa (present)
kufa (present)
okufayo (present)
okufa (present)
akufi (present)
okungafi (present)
kungafi (present)
ngifile (first-person present singular)
ngifē (first-person present singular)
engifile (first-person present singular)
engifē (first-person present singular)
angifanga (first-person present singular)
engingafanga (first-person present singular)
ngingafanga (first-person present singular)
ufile (present second-person singular)
ufē (present second-person singular)
ofile (present second-person singular)
ofē (present second-person singular)
awufanga (present second-person singular)
ongafanga (present second-person singular)
ungafanga (present second-person singular)
sifile (first-person plural present)
sifē (first-person plural present)
esifile (first-person plural present)
esifē (first-person plural present)
asifanga (first-person plural present)
esingafanga (first-person plural present)
singafanga (first-person plural present)
nifile (plural present second-person)
nifē (plural present second-person)
enifile (plural present second-person)
enifē (plural present second-person)
anifanga (plural present second-person)
eningafanga (plural present second-person)
ningafanga (plural present second-person)
ufile (present)
ufē (present)
ofile (present)
ofē (present)
efile (present)
efē (present)
akafanga (present)
ongafanga (present)
engafanga (present)
bafile (present)
bafē (present)
abafile (present)
abafē (present)
befile (present)
befē (present)
abafanga (present)
abangafanga (present)
bengafanga (present)
awufanga (present)
ungafanga (present)
ifile (present)
ifē (present)
ayifanga (present)
ingafanga (present)
lifile (present)
lifē (present)
elifile (present)
elifē (present)
alifanga (present)
elingafanga (present)
lingafanga (present)
afile (present)
afē (present)
awafanga (present)
angafanga (present)
sifile (present)
sifē (present)
esifile (present)
esifē (present)
asifanga (present)
esingafanga (present)
singafanga (present)
zifile (present)
zifē (present)
ezifile (present)
ezifē (present)
azifanga (present)
ezingafanga (present)
zingafanga (present)
lufile (present)
lufē (present)
olufile (present)
olufē (present)
alufanga (present)
olungafanga (present)
lungafanga (present)
bufile (present)
bufē (present)
obufile (present)
obufē (present)
abufanga (present)
obungafanga (present)
bungafanga (present)
kufile (present)
kufē (present)
okufile (present)
okufē (present)
akufanga (present)
okungafanga (present)
kungafanga (present)
ngāfa (first-person present singular)
engāfa (first-person present singular)
wāfa (present second-person singular)
owāfa (present second-person singular)
sāfa (first-person plural present)
esāfa (first-person plural present)
nāfa (plural present second-person)
enāfa (plural present second-person)
wāfa (present)
owāfa (present)
āfa (present)
bāfa (present)
abāfa (present)
yāfa (present)
eyāfa (present)
lāfa (present)
elāfa (present)
sāfa (present)
esāfa (present)
zāfa (present)
ezāfa (present)
lwāfa (present)
olwāfa (present)
obāfa (present)
kwāfa (present)
okwāfa (present)
ngingafa (first-person potential singular)
ngingefe (first-person potential singular)
ungafa (potential second-person singular)
ungefe (potential second-person singular)
singafa (first-person plural potential)
singefe (first-person plural potential)
ningafa (plural potential second-person)
ningefe (plural potential second-person)
angafa (potential)
engafa (potential)
angefe (potential)
engefe (potential)
bangafa (potential)
bengafa (potential)
bangefe (potential)
bengefe (potential)
ungafa (potential)
ungefe (potential)
ingafa (potential)
ingefe (potential)
lingafa (potential)
lingefe (potential)
singafa (potential)
singefe (potential)
zingafa (potential)
zingefe (potential)
lungafa (potential)
lungefe (potential)
bungafa (potential)
bungefe (potential)
kungafa (potential)
kungefe (potential)
ngizokufa (first-person immediate-future singular)
engizokufa (first-person immediate-future singular)
angizukufa (first-person immediate-future singular)
engingezukufa (first-person immediate-future singular)
ngingezukufa (first-person immediate-future singular)
uzokufa (immediate-future second-person singular)
ozokufa (immediate-future second-person singular)
awuzukufa (immediate-future second-person singular)
ongezukufa (immediate-future second-person singular)
ungezukufa (immediate-future second-person singular)
sizokufa (first-person immediate-future plural)
esizokufa (first-person immediate-future plural)
asizukufa (first-person immediate-future plural)
esingezukufa (first-person immediate-future plural)
singezukufa (first-person immediate-future plural)
nizokufa (immediate-future plural second-person)
enizokufa (immediate-future plural second-person)
anizukufa (immediate-future plural second-person)
eningezukufa (immediate-future plural second-person)
ningezukufa (immediate-future plural second-person)
uzokufa (immediate-future)
ozokufa (immediate-future)
ezokufa (immediate-future)
akazukufa (immediate-future)
ongezukufa (immediate-future)
engezukufa (immediate-future)
bazokufa (immediate-future)
abazokufa (immediate-future)
bezokufa (immediate-future)
abazukufa (immediate-future)
abangezukufa (immediate-future)
bengezukufa (immediate-future)
awuzukufa (immediate-future)
ungezukufa (immediate-future)
izokufa (immediate-future)
ayizukufa (immediate-future)
ingezukufa (immediate-future)
lizokufa (immediate-future)
elizokufa (immediate-future)
alizukufa (immediate-future)
elingezukufa (immediate-future)
lingezukufa (immediate-future)
azokufa (immediate-future)
awazukufa (immediate-future)
angezukufa (immediate-future)
sizokufa (immediate-future)
esizokufa (immediate-future)
asizukufa (immediate-future)
esingezukufa (immediate-future)
singezukufa (immediate-future)
zizokufa (immediate-future)
ezizokufa (immediate-future)
azizukufa (immediate-future)
ezingezukufa (immediate-future)
zingezukufa (immediate-future)
luzokufa (immediate-future)
oluzokufa (immediate-future)
aluzukufa (immediate-future)
olungezukufa (immediate-future)
lungezukufa (immediate-future)
buzokufa (immediate-future)
obuzokufa (immediate-future)
abuzukufa (immediate-future)
obungezukufa (immediate-future)
bungezukufa (immediate-future)
kuzokufa (immediate-future)
okuzokufa (immediate-future)
akuzukufa (immediate-future)
okungezukufa (immediate-future)
kungezukufa (immediate-future)
ngiyokufa (first-person immediate-future singular)
engiyokufa (first-person immediate-future singular)
angiyukufa (first-person immediate-future singular)
engingeyukufa (first-person immediate-future singular)
ngingeyukufa (first-person immediate-future singular)
uyokufa (immediate-future second-person singular)
oyokufa (immediate-future second-person singular)
awuyukufa (immediate-future second-person singular)
ongeyukufa (immediate-future second-person singular)
ungeyukufa (immediate-future second-person singular)
siyokufa (first-person immediate-future plural)
esiyokufa (first-person immediate-future plural)
asiyukufa (first-person immediate-future plural)
esingeyukufa (first-person immediate-future plural)
singeyukufa (first-person immediate-future plural)
niyokufa (immediate-future plural second-person)
eniyokufa (immediate-future plural second-person)
aniyukufa (immediate-future plural second-person)
eningeyukufa (immediate-future plural second-person)
ningeyukufa (immediate-future plural second-person)
uyokufa (immediate-future)
oyokufa (immediate-future)
eyokufa (immediate-future)
akayukufa (immediate-future)
ongeyukufa (immediate-future)
engeyukufa (immediate-future)
bayokufa (immediate-future)
abayokufa (immediate-future)
beyokufa (immediate-future)
abayukufa (immediate-future)
abangeyukufa (immediate-future)
bengeyukufa (immediate-future)
awuyukufa (immediate-future)
ungeyukufa (immediate-future)
iyokufa (immediate-future)
ayiyukufa (immediate-future)
ingeyukufa (immediate-future)
liyokufa (immediate-future)
eliyokufa (immediate-future)
aliyukufa (immediate-future)
elingeyukufa (immediate-future)
lingeyukufa (immediate-future)
ayokufa (immediate-future)
awayukufa (immediate-future)
angeyukufa (immediate-future)
siyokufa (immediate-future)
esiyokufa (immediate-future)
asiyukufa (immediate-future)
esingeyukufa (immediate-future)
singeyukufa (immediate-future)
ziyokufa (immediate-future)
eziyokufa (immediate-future)
aziyukufa (immediate-future)
ezingeyukufa (immediate-future)
zingeyukufa (immediate-future)
luyokufa (immediate-future)
oluyokufa (immediate-future)
aluyukufa (immediate-future)
olungeyukufa (immediate-future)
lungeyukufa (immediate-future)
buyokufa (immediate-future)
obuyokufa (immediate-future)
abuyukufa (immediate-future)
obungeyukufa (immediate-future)
bungeyukufa (immediate-future)
kuyokufa (immediate-future)
okuyokufa (immediate-future)
akuyukufa (immediate-future)
okungeyukufa (immediate-future)
kungeyukufa (immediate-future)
ngife (first-person present singular subjunctive)
ngingafi (first-person negative present singular subjunctive)
ufe (present second-person singular subjunctive)
ungafi (negative present second-person singular subjunctive)
sife (first-person plural present subjunctive)
singafi (first-person negative plural present subjunctive)
nife (plural present second-person subjunctive)
ningafi (negative plural present second-person subjunctive)
afe (present subjunctive)
angafi (negative present subjunctive)
bafe (present subjunctive)
bangafi (negative present subjunctive)
ufe (present subjunctive)
ungafi (negative present subjunctive)
ife (present subjunctive)
ingafi (negative present subjunctive)
life (present subjunctive)
lingafi (negative present subjunctive)
sife (present subjunctive)
singafi (negative present subjunctive)
zife (present subjunctive)
zingafi (negative present subjunctive)
lufe (present subjunctive)
lungafi (negative present subjunctive)
bufe (present subjunctive)
bungafi (negative present subjunctive)
kufe (present subjunctive)
kungafi (negative present subjunctive)
ngafa (first-person past singular subjunctive)
ngangafa (first-person negative past singular subjunctive)
angafa (first-person negative past singular subjunctive)
angangafa (first-person negative past singular subjunctive)
wafa (past second-person singular subjunctive)
wangafa (negative past second-person singular subjunctive)
awafa (negative past second-person singular subjunctive)
awangafa (negative past second-person singular subjunctive)
safa (first-person past plural subjunctive)
sangafa (first-person negative past plural subjunctive)
asafa (first-person negative past plural subjunctive)
asangafa (first-person negative past plural subjunctive)
nafa (past plural second-person subjunctive)
nangafa (negative past plural second-person subjunctive)
anafa (negative past plural second-person subjunctive)
anangafa (negative past plural second-person subjunctive)
wafa (past subjunctive)
wangafa (negative past subjunctive)
akafa (negative past subjunctive)
akangafa (negative past subjunctive)
bafa (past subjunctive)
bangafa (negative past subjunctive)
abafa (negative past subjunctive)
abangafa (negative past subjunctive)
awafa (negative past subjunctive)
awangafa (negative past subjunctive)
yafa (past subjunctive)
yangafa (negative past subjunctive)
ayafa (negative past subjunctive)
ayangafa (negative past subjunctive)
lafa (past subjunctive)
langafa (negative past subjunctive)
alafa (negative past subjunctive)
alangafa (negative past subjunctive)
afa (past subjunctive)
angafa (negative past subjunctive)
safa (past subjunctive)
sangafa (negative past subjunctive)
asafa (negative past subjunctive)
asangafa (negative past subjunctive)
zafa (past subjunctive)
zangafa (negative past subjunctive)
azafa (negative past subjunctive)
azangafa (negative past subjunctive)
lwafa (past subjunctive)
lwangafa (negative past subjunctive)
alwafa (negative past subjunctive)
alwangafa (negative past subjunctive)
kwafa (past subjunctive)
kwangafa (negative past subjunctive)
akwafa (negative past subjunctive)
akwangafa (negative past subjunctive)


fabaceous

The fabaceous plants rank second only to the grasses in value as ministrants to the economy of animal life, for they produce food for man and beast in vast abundance, and generally speaking, the aliments derived from this family are of the highest character in point of nourishing power, all of them contributing largely to the nourishment, not only of the muscular and bony framework, but in a peculiar degree also to the nervous system, owing to their richness in nitrogen and salts of phosphorus. In a majority of cases the fabaceous or leguminous plants have pinnated leaves, that is to say, each separate leaf consists of a series of symmetrical divisions united by a common stem.

1870, Shirley Hibberd, Field Flowers a Handy-book for the Rambling Botanist ..., page 78:

Having the nature of a bean; like a bean.

en-adj

fabaceous (comparative more fabaceous, superlative most fabaceous)

more fabaceous (comparative)
most fabaceous (superlative)

From Latin fabaceus, from faba (“bean”).


fabella

(anatomy) One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.

Borrowed from New Latin fabella, diminutive of Latin faba (“bean”).


fabella

diminutive of fābula (“fable, tale, story”)

la-noun

fābella f (genitive fābellae); first declension

fābella (canonical feminine)
fābellae (genitive)
fābella (nominative singular)
fābellae (nominative plural)
fābellae (genitive singular)
fābellārum (genitive plural)
fābellae (dative singular)
fābellīs (dative plural)
fābellam (accusative singular)
fābellās (accusative plural)
fābellā (ablative singular)
fābellīs (ablative plural)
fābella (singular vocative)
fābellae (plural vocative)

Italian: favella

Old French: favele

→ English: favel

Polish: fabuła

Portuguese: fabela

Romansch: faveala, faviala

→ Spanish: fabela


fabella

(anatomy) fabella (the posterior analogue of the anterior patella)

fabella (nominative singular)
fabellae (nominative plural)
fabellae (genitive singular)
fabellārum (genitive plural)
fabellae (dative singular)
fabellīs (dative plural)
fabellam (accusative singular)
fabellās (accusative plural)
fabellā (ablative singular)
fabellīs (ablative plural)
fabella (singular vocative)
fabellae (plural vocative)

faba (“bean”) + -ellus. From its bean-like shape and size, in some animals.


Fabian

Hood complained behind his commander's back to Richmond of Johnston's Fabian strategy.

1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2004, page 745:

(military) Pertaining to or reminiscent of Roman general Fabius Maximus, whose tactics against Hannibal during the Second Punic War famously consisted of delaying or avoiding combat, focusing instead on weakening the enemy by cutting off supply lines.

(politics) Advocating that social reforms be reached through a series of gradual and moderate stages rather than sudden revolution; specifically, relating to the Fabian Society, a British socialist society advocating reformist socialism.

(by extension) cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest.

en-adj

Fabian (comparative more Fabian, superlative most Fabian)

more Fabian (comparative)
most Fabian (superlative)
fabian (alternative)

From Latin Fabiānus (“belonging to Fabius”), derived from Fabius + -ānus.


Fabian

(politics) A Fabian socialist, a gradualist socialist; a member of the Fabian Society.


Fabian

Fabian (indefinite nominative)
Fabian (accusative indefinite)
Fabiani (dative indefinite)
Fabians (genitive indefinite)


Fabian

Borrowed from Latin Fabiānus (“belonging to Fabius”).


Fabian

(Gascony) a male given name, equivalent to English Fabian


Fabian

Fabian (nominative singular)
Fabianowie (nominative plural)
Fabiana (genitive singular)
Fabianów (genitive plural)
Fabianowi (dative singular)
Fabianom (dative plural)
Fabiana (accusative singular)
Fabianów (accusative plural)
Fabianem (instrumental singular)
Fabianami (instrumental plural)
Fabianie (locative singular)
Fabianach (locative plural)
Fabianie (singular vocative)
Fabianowie (plural vocative)


Fabian

sk-proper noun

Fabian m pers (female equivalent Fabianová)

Fabianová (feminine)
nominative
Fabian (singular)
Fabianovia
Fabianovci
genitive
Fabiana (singular)
Fabianov
Fabianovcov
dative
Fabianovi (singular)
Fabianom
Fabianovcom
accusative
locative
Fabianoch
Fabianovcoch
instrumental
Fabianom (singular)
Fabianmi
Fabianovcami


Fabian

(minced oath, colloquial) Euphemistic form of fan.


fable

A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.

But refuſe prophane and olde wiues fables, and exerciſe thy ſelfe rather vnto godlineſſe.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 4:7, column 1:

[…]we grew / The fable of the city where we dwelt.

1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 19:

Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.

I say it would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away all which is the overplus of a great fortune by secret methods to other men.

1712 January 13 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, January 2, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 264; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 316:

For the moral (as Bossu observes,) is the first business of the poet, as being the groundwork of his instruction. This being formed, he contrives such a design, or fable, as may be most suitable to the moral;

1695, John Dryden, A Parallel betwixt Painting and Poetry:

The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.

fabulous

equivalent to fable + -ous but actually derived from Latin fābulōsus

𐔸𐔰𐕃𐕒𐕡𐕘𐔴𐕒𐕡𐕢𐔴𐕚𐕒𐕡𐕎

fictitious narration to enforce some useful truth or precept

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French fable, from Latin fābula, from fārī (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”). See ban, and compare fabulous, fame. Doublet of fabula.


fable

He Fables not, I heare the enemie: / Out ſome light Horſemen, and peruſe their Wings.

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 111, column 2:

Vain now the Tales which fab’ling Poets tell, / That wav’ring Conqueſt ſtill deſires to rove; / In Marlbrô’s Camp the Goddeſs knows to dwell: / Long as the Hero’s Life remains her Love.

1709, Mat[thew] Prior, “An Ode, Humbly Inscrib’d to the Queen”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, stanza XVII, page 287:

1852, Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna, Act II, in Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems, London: B. Fellowes, p. 50,
He fables, yet speaks truth.

(intransitive, archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.

[…] erre not that ſo ſhall end / The ſtrife of Glorie: which we mean to win, / Or turn this Heav’n itſelf into the Hell / Thou fableſt […]

1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 288–292:

THE Poets Fable, That Apollo being enamoured of Caſſandra, was by her many ſhifts and cunning ſlights ſtill deluded in his Deſire […]

1691, “Cassandra, or, Divination”, in Arthur Gorges, transl., The Wisdom of the Ancients, London, translation of [De Sapientia Veterum] by Francis Bacon, page 1:

Fabled by the daughters of memory. And yet it was in some way if not as memory fabled it. A phrase, then, of impatience, thud of Blake’s wings of excess.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 2: Nestor]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 24:

(transitive, archaic) To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.

en-verb

fable (third-person singular simple present fables, present participle fabling, simple past and past participle fabled)

fables (present singular third-person)
fabling (participle present)
fabled (participle past)
fabled (past)


fable

→ Turkish: fabl

Inherited from Old French fable, borrowed from Latin fabula.


fable

fable om suksess

head

fable (imperative fabl or fable, present tense fabler, passive fables, simple past and past participle fabla or fablet)

fabl (imperative)
fable (imperative)
fabler (present)
fables (passive)
fabla (participle past)
fabla (past)
fablet (participle past)
fablet (past)

From the noun fabel, ultimately from Latin fabula, from fā(rī) (“to speak, say”) + -bula (“instrumental suffix”).


fable

fable om suksess

fable (imperative fabl, present tense fablar, simple past and past participle fabla)

fabl (imperative)
fablar (present)
fabla (participle past)
fabla (past)


fable

Ne vos wel faire longue fable

c. 1250, Rutebeuf, Ci encoumence la lections d'ypocrisie et d'umilité:

fro-noun

fable oblique singular, f (oblique plural fables, nominative singular fable, nominative plural fables)

fable oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
fables (oblique plural)
fable (nominative singular)
fables (nominative plural)

Middle French: fable

French: fable

→ Middle Dutch: fabele

desctree

Dutch: fabel
Afrikaans: fabel
→ Indonesian: fabel
→ Papiamentu: fabel (dated)
→ West Frisian: fabel

→ Middle English: fable

English: fable

→ Middle High German: fabele

German: Fabel


fable

first/third-person singular present subjunctive

inflection of fablar:
third-person singular imperative


a-

Used to form taxonomic names indicating a lack of some feature that might be expected

From the Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not, without”).


a-

arise, await

(no longer productive) Forming verbs with the sense away, up, on, out.

abide, amaze

(no longer productive) Forming verbs with the sense of intensified action.

From Middle English a- (“up, out, away”), from Old English ā-, originally *ar-, *or-, from Proto-West Germanic *uʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out-”), from Proto-Indo-European *uds- (“up, out”). Cognate with Old Saxon a-, German er-.


a-

aglow, apace, afire, aboil, a-bling, abluster

(rare or no longer productive) In, on, at; used to show a state, condition, or manner. Also passing into sense 2.

asunder

(no longer productive) In, into. Also passing into sense 5.

astern, abeam

Come a-morning we are going hunting.

hits a-poppin

doins a-transpirin

1777, Thomas Arne, A-Hunting We Will Go:

The twelfth day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Twelve lords a-leaping,
…
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,

circa 1850, Here We Come A-wassailing/Here We Come A-caroling
Here we come a-wassailing
Among the leaves so green;
Here we come a-wand’ring
So fair to be seen.

Oh waste no words a-wooing
The soft sleep to your bed;

1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, XIII, lines 6-7:

The hay is a-cutting now. You're a-wanting.

The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'

1964, Bob Dylan, "The Times They Are a-Changin' " (recorded 1963, released 1964)

If the van’s a-rockin’, don’t come a-knockin’.

(archaic or dialectal) In the act or process of. Used in some dialects before a present participle.

* From Middle English a- (“on”), derived from unstressed Middle English an (“on”), from Old English an (“on”).
* See a (preposition, on, to, in, etc.)


a-

aware, alike

Alternative form of y- (archaic and dialectal) In dialect, it is sometimes conflated with sense 5 of the previous definition, and is used as a general indicator of a participle.

y-

I have a-gone.

I have a-seen a bird.

(Devon) Used to form the past participle of a verb.

From Middle English a-, a variant form of y-, from Old English ġe-, from Proto-West Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“with”).


a-

abash

(no longer productive) Forming words with the sense of wholly, or utterly out.

From Anglo-Norman a-, from Old French e-, from Latin ex-.


a-

amoral, asymmetry, atheism, asexual, acyclic, atypical

When invited to believe in the Chimaera, the horse-centaurs, or the winged horse Pegasus, all of them straightforward Pelasgian cult-symbols, a philosopher felt bound to reject them as a-zoölogical improbabilities ….

1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber & Faber 1999, page 7

If aroused outside the proper outlet of marriage, [female lust] could range out of control, turning its possessor into an a-feminine monster: that is what happened to fallen women.

2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 191:

From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) (ἀν- (an-) immediately followed by a vowel).


a-

ascend, aspire, amass, abandon, avenue

(no longer productive) Towards; Used to indicate direction, reduction to, increase to, change into, or motion.

From Middle English a-, from Middle French a-, from Latin ad (“towards”).


a-

avert, aperient, abridge, assoil, assoilzie


a-

anew, afresh, athirst

From Middle English a-, o- (“of”). See a (preposition, of).