falla

See also: Falla, fallá, and fälla

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *facla, contracted form of Latin facula (“little torch”), diminutive of fax. Compare the borrowed doublet fàcula.

Noun

falla f (plural falles)

  1. constructions of inflammable materials, based in figures that are caricatures (the ninots) that are installed in certain Valencian municipalities and are burned to ashes the day of Saint Joseph.
  2. the holidays around these constructions.
  3. the associations or organizations around these constructions.
  4. fire, bonfire

Etymology 2

From fallir.

Noun

falla f (plural falles)

  1. fault or lack
  2. (geology) fault
Derived terms

Further reading

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse falla, from Proto-Germanic *fallaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pōl-.

Verb

falla (third person singular past indicative fall, third person plural past indicative fullu, supine fallið)

  1. to fall

Conjugation

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse falla, from Proto-Germanic *fallaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pōl-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfatla/
  • Rhymes: -atla

Verb

falla (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative féll, third-person plural past indicative féllu, supine fallið)

  1. (intransitive) to fall syn.
  2. (intransitive) to be killed, especially in action or in battle syn.
    • Matthew 26:52 (English and Icelandic)
      Jesús sagði við hann: „Slíðra sverð þitt! Allir, sem sverði bregða, munu fyrir sverði falla.“
      “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.”
  3. (intransitive) to flow syn.
  4. (intransitive) to fit closely, to shut tight, to meet syn.
  5. (intransitive) to like syn.

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • falla allur ketill í eld
  • falla um
  • falla um koll
  • falla í gleymsku
  • falla vel við (to like somebody)
    Mér fellur vel við hann.
    I like him.
  • falla þungt (to be grieved by something)
    Mér fellur þetta þungt.
    This grieves me.
  • fallast
  • fallast á
  • fallast hendur
  • fallinn m, fallin f, fallið
  • vera vel til fallið (to be a good idea)
  • falla á prófi (to fail an exam)
  • falla að (of the tide; to be coming in)
  • falla frá
  • falla í gjalddaga
  • falla í kosningum
  • falla í stafi
  • falla í skaut
  • falla niður
  • fall
  • falla eins og flís við rass

Noun

falla n

  1. indefinite genitive plural of fall

Irish

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈfˠɑl̪ˠə/

Noun

falla m (genitive singular falla, nominative plural fallaí)

  1. (Munster) wall

Declension

Synonyms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
falla fhalla bhfalla
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Noun

falla f (plural falle)

  1. leak

Verb

falla

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

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fallire.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɐlːɐ/

Verb

falla (imperfect jfalli)

  1. to be absent

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

falla n

  1. definite plural of fall

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

falla

  1. definite plural of fall

Etymology 2

Verb

falla (present tense fell, past tense fall, past participle falle, passive infinitive fallast, present participle fallande, imperative fall)

  1. Alternative form of falle

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fallaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pōl-. Akin to Old English feallan (English fall), Old Frisian falla (West Frisian falle), Old Saxon fallan (Low German fallen), Old Dutch fallan (Dutch vallen), Old High German fallan (German fallen).

Verb

falla (singular past indicative féll, plural past indicative féllu, past participle fallinn)

  1. to fall

Conjugation

Conjugation of falla — mediopassive (strong class 7)
infinitive fallask
present participle fallandisk
past participle fallizk
indicative present past
1st-person singular fǫllumk fellumk
2nd-person singular felsk fellzk
3rd-person singular felsk fellsk
1st-person plural fǫllumsk fellumsk
2nd-person plural fallizk felluzk
3rd-person plural fallask fellusk
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular fǫllumk fellumk
2nd-person singular fallisk fellisk
3rd-person singular fallisk fellisk
1st-person plural fallimsk fellimsk
2nd-person plural fallizk fellizk
3rd-person plural fallisk fellisk
imperative present
2nd-person singular falsk
1st-person plural fǫllumsk
2nd-person plural fallizk

Descendants

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse falla, from Proto-Germanic *fallaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pōl-.

Verb

falla

  1. to fall

Conjugation

Descendants

Portuguese

Noun

falla f (plural fallas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of fala

Verb

falla

  1. Obsolete spelling of fala

Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin falla.

Noun

falla f (plural fallas)

  1. A flaw.
  2. A failure.
  3. An outage, such as a blackout.
  4. (geology) A fault.

Verb

falla

  1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of fallar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of fallar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of fallar.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish falla, from Old Norse falla, from Proto-Germanic *fallaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pōl-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /falːa/
  • audio(file)

Verb

falla

  1. to fall
  2. to die, especially in battle

Conjugation

Synonyms

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