fàura

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Sassarese

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Logudorese fàula (“lie”),[1] from Classical Latin fābula (“narrative; fable; poem”). Compare Catalan faula (“fable; falsehood”). Doublet of fora (“fable”).

Pronunciation

Noun

fàura f (plural fàuri)

  1. lie, falsehood
    dì fauri ― to lie, to tell lies
    • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Puisia [Poem]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 19:
      […] un’oasi prupizia pa’ pudé
      cu lu pientu annittavvi da li fàuri
      chi vi sò già incighendi.
      A propitious oasis, so I can cleanse you with my tears from the lies that are already blinding you.
    • 2010 September 29, Ignazio Sanna, “Li sigurànzi di Don Fedele [Don Fedele's guarantees]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese‎:
      tuttu lu chi v’abìa fattu bì in chissa vigìria di Pascha era sóru una gróssa faura
      everything he had you believe in that Easter Eve was just a big lie

References

  • Ugo Solinas (2016) Vocabolario sassarese-italiano fraseologico ed etimologico, volume 1, Sestu: Domus de Janas, →ISBN, page 512
  • Giosue Muzzo (1981) Vocabolario del dialetto sassarese, Chiarella Editore, →ISBN; republished, Sassari: Carlo Delfino editore, 2018, page 77
  • Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
  1. ^ Mauro Maxia (2012) Fonetica storica del gallurese e delle altre varietà sardocorse (in Sassarese), Editrice Taphros, →ISBN
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