falla

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *facla, contracted form of Latin facula, diminutive of fax (“torch”). Compare the borrowed doublet fàcula.

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

• faller
• Falles

Deverbal of fallar.

falla f (plural falles)

1. fault or lack
2. (geology) fault

• fallir
• fallar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

falla

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

• “falla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “falla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Norse falla, from Proto-Germanic *fallaną, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃lH-.

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

1. to fall

From Old Galician-Portuguese falla (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from a Vulgar Latin *fallia, possibly through the intermediate or influence of Old French faille or Old Occitan falha. The geological sense is a more modern one from French.

• IPA^(key):

falla f (plural fallas)

1. lack; shortage

   Synonym: marra

2. flaw; fail

   Synonym: eiva

3. (geology) a fault

• sen falla (“certainly, without fail”)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “falla”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “falla”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “falla”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “falla”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “falla”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈfatla/
• Rhymes: -atla

From Old Norse falla, from Proto-Germanic *fallaną, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃lH-.

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

1. (intransitive) to fall

   Synonym: detta

2. (intransitive) to be killed, especially in action or in battle

   Synonym: vera drepinn

   • 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

   Synonym: streyma

4. (intransitive) to fit closely, to shut tight, to meet

   Synonym: falla þétt að

5. (intransitive) to like

   Synonym: líka

• falla allur ketill í eld
• falla um
• falla um koll
• falla í gleymsku
• falla vel við (“to like someone”)

  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
• 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

• fella

falla n

1. indefinite genitive plural of fall

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠɑl̪ˠə/

falla m (genitive singular falla, nominative plural fallaí)

1. Munster form of balla (“wall”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “falla”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 18

• IPA^(key): /ˈfal.la/
• Rhymes: -alla
• Hyphenation: fàl‧la

Deverbal from fallare +‎ -a.

falla f (plural falle)

1. a hole, especially a leak (from a wall or a ship's keel)
2. (figurative, by extension) a reason or source of loss (of money, resources, etc.)

   tamponare le falle dell'erario

   to provisionally remedy the (financial) hemorrhaging of the treasury

3. (military) to retreat on a front of a battle, allowing enemy penetration into one's territory
4. a defect in a fabric, due to an error in the weaving process

   Synonyms: fallatura, fallo

Borrowed from English fall, with influence from the lemma above.

falla f (plural falle)

1. (radio engineering) drop

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

falla

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

• falla¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• falla² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Probably borrowed from Italian fallire. At least Italian influence is certain, but compare Arabic فَلَّ (falla, “to go away”), with which it could theoretically have been merged. It is a fairly rare word, but very common in North Levantine Arabic, with which Maltese (though more closely related to Maghrebi dialects) shares some similarities.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfalla/

falla (imperfect jfalli)

1. to be absent

• fallene

falla n

1. definite plural of fall

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

falla

1. definite plural of fall

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

1. Alternative form of falle

From Proto-Germanic *fallaną, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃lH-. Akin to Old English feallan (whence English fall), Old Frisian falla (whence West Frisian falle), Old Saxon fallan (whence Low German fallen), Old Dutch fallan (whence Dutch vallen), Old High German fallan (whence German fallen).

falla (singular past indicative fell, plural past indicative fellu, past participle fallinn)

1. to fall

• Icelandic: falla
• Faroese: falla
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: falle
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: falla, falle
• Elfdalian: folla
• Old Swedish: falla
  • Swedish: falla
• Old Danish: fallæ
  • Danish: falde
  • Scanian: falða
• Gutnish: falle

From Old Norse falla, from Proto-Germanic *fallaną, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃lH-.

falla

1. to fall

• Swedish: falla

falla f (plural fallas)

1. Obsolete spelling of fala.

falla

1. Obsolete spelling of fala.

falla

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

falla

1. to emigrate

• Syllabification: fa‧lla

Likely from Catalan falla, with the geological sense from French faille.

falla f (plural fallas)

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

falla

1. inflection of fallar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. inflection of fallir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1984) “fallir”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 845

• “falla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

From Old Swedish falla, from Old Norse falla, from Proto-Germanic *fallaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂p-h₃elh₁-.

• IPA^(key): /²falːa/

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falla (present faller, preterite föll, supine fallit, imperative fall)

1. to fall

   falla genom luften

   fall through the air

   falla till backen

   fall to the ground

   Glaset föll i golvet

   The glass fell to the floor (i (“in”) as opposed to till (“to”) puts more focus on the impact and often implies an accidental fall – can be thought of as a generalization of "fall in the water" and the like)

2. to fall (die, especially in battle)

   Synonym: stupa

• fälla

• trilla

• falla in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• falla in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• falla in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)