fala

Noun

fala f (plural fales)

1. speaking, speech

Verb

fala

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

Etymology

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

Noun

fala f (plural falas)

1. Fala (Romance language of northwestern Extremadura)
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme IV, Chapter 2: O “Oiru” i o “Moiru” do diptongu “au” latinu:

     É algu que poi dal traballu a os estudiosus da fala, […]

     It is something which may be complicated for Fala scholars, […]

2. a language or language variant, especially a minority or regional one
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme I, Chapter 2: Númerus?:

     As lenguas, idiomas, dialectus o falas tenin un-as funciós mui claras desde o principiu dos siglu i si hai contabilizaus en o mundu un-as 8.000 lenguas, ca un-a con sua importancia numérica relativa, a nossa fala é un tesoiru mais entre elas.

     The tongues, languages or regional variants have some very clear functions since the beginning of the centuries and some 8,000 languages have been accounted for in the world, each with its relative numerical importance, our Fala is another treasure among them.

Verb

fala

1. third person singular present indicative of verb falal.
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme XI:

     Quen fala poi escribil

     Those who speak can write

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfala̝/

Noun

fala m (plural falas)

1. voice, speech (faculty of speech)
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Cronica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación "Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa", page 567:

     Ata meodía nõ cobrou sua fala, nẽ seu entendemento.

     Till noon he didn't recover his voice nor his mind

   • 1779, Diego Antonio Cernadas, Obras en Prosa y Verso. Madrid. page 315:

     Co o desexo de acordarvos, que en Galicia o seu funduxe ten a vosa nobre fruxe, vou en Gallego a falarvos: De esto non hai que estrañarvos; antes ben, facendo gala de esta nación, estimá-la, e si porque moito dista, non a conocés de vista, conocedea pola fala

     With the desire to make you remember that in Galicia your noble lineage has its foundation, I'm gonna speak to you in Galician: no need to wonder for this; rather, taking pride of this nation, to love it, and if because of the distance, you don't know it by sight, let's you know it by its speech.

2. a language, a dialect or a sociolect
   • 1859, José Domínguez d'Esquerdo, Entonces e agora ou Coroas e cadeas do fidalgo povo galicián:

     deprende a fala francesa, ingresa ou italián, e non construie a galícea, encolle o lombo, cand'ouce falare do país en que nasceu!

     he learns the French, the English or the Italian languages, but can't elaborate in Galician, he flinches when he hears about the country where he was born!

3. Galego, Galician language
   • 1917, anonymous, A Nosa Terra, n. 7:

     Fai pouco tempo, e ben pouco por nosa indiferenza, qu'un feixe d'homes de vontade de ferro, axuntaronse, formando a santa e nobre Irmandade da Fala.

     Sometime ago, a very short time ago because of our indifference, a handful of men with an iron will, joining together, founded the holy and noble Brotherhood of the Fala.

4. Fala (Galician-Portuguese language of northwestern Extremadura, in Spain)
5. word, tale

Verb

fala

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

References

• “fala” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “fala” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “fala” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology

fal +‎ -a (“possessive suffix”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒlɒ]
• Hyphenation: fa‧la

Noun

fala

1. third-person singular (single possession) possessive of fal

Noun

fala

1. indefinite genitive plural of falur

Etymology

From Latin fala, from Etruscan.

Noun

fala f (plural fale)

1. A siege tower

Alternative forms

• phala

Etymology

From Etruscan.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fala f (genitive falae); first declension

1. (military) A siege tower.

References

• fala in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fala in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *palaq, from Proto-Austronesian *palaq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fala/

Noun

fala

1. vagina, vulva

Verb

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

1. fall

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.la/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

fala f

1. wave

   Fala turystów wracających z wakacji spowodowała korki na drogach. - A wave of tourists returning from their holidays caused traffic jams on the roads.

Alternative forms

• falla (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese fala, from Latin fābula (“discourse, narrative”), from for (“I speak”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fala f (plural falas)

1. (uncountable) speech (the ability to speak; the state of not being mute)
2. a speech, a discourse
3. accent (the way someone speaks)
4. a dialect or regional variant of a language
5. a line of dialogue in a screenplay or script

Verb

fala

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of falar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of falar

Etymology

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

Noun

fala

1. the screw pine, pandanus, Pandanus tectorius
2. a woven mat made from the leaves of the pandanus

Noun

fala f

1. genitive singular of fuil

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fǎːla/
• Hyphenation: fa‧la

Noun

fála f (Cyrillic spelling фа́ла)

1. (Croatia, colloquial) Nonstandard form of hvála.

Noun

fala (ma class, plural mafala)

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

Adjective

fala

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of fal.

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fala Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (compare Indonesian pandan, Hawaiian hala).

Noun

fala

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