fals

• fils

From Arabic فَلْس (fals), from Aramaic פילס / ܦܠܣ / פולסא / ܦܘܠܣܐ (/⁠fuləsā, filas⁠/), from Ancient Greek φόλλις (phóllis), from Latin follis. Doublet of fool.

fals (plural fulus)

1. (numismatics, Middle Ages) Medieval copper coin first produced by the Umayyad caliphate beginning in the late 7th century.

• Alfs, Salf, AFLs, FLSA, alfs, fasl

Inherited from Latin falsus (“false”). First attested in the 12th century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia)
• Rhymes: -als
• Homophone: falç

fals (feminine falsa, masculine plural falsos, feminine plural falses)

1. false (untrue, not factual, wrong)

• falsament

• falsar
• falsedat
• falsejar

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

From Latin falsus.

fals

1. false

Borrowed from Middle High German valsch.^[1]

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: fals
• Rhymes: -ɒlʃ

fals (comparative falsabb, superlative legfalsabb)

1. false (not well-founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous)

   Synonyms: hamis, téves, helytelen, ál-

   fals érvelés ― false argumentation

   fals pozitív ― false positive

   fals nyom ― false track

2. (music) out of tune, off-key, wrong

   fals hang ― wrong note

fals (plural falsok)

1. (billiards) spin

• fals in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• IPA^(key): /fals/
• Rhymes: -als

From Latin falsus.

fals n (genitive singular fals, nominative plural föls)

1. falseness, dissimulation

   Synonym: svik

2. fraud, imposture
3. forgery

   Synonym: fölsun

• falsa (“to falsify”)

Borrowed from Danish fals.

fals n (genitive singular fals, nominative plural föls)

1. groove, notch

   Synonyms: skora, gróp

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From Dutch vals (“false”), from Latin falsus (“counterfeit, false; falsehood”), perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”).

• IPA^(key):

fals (first-person possessive falsku, second-person possessive falsmu, third-person possessive falsnya)

1. (music) off-key, out of tune

• fauls, vals
• faus, fauce

From Old English fals, borrowed from Latin falsus (“false”), and partly from Old French fals.

• IPA^(key): /fals/, /fau̯ls/, /fau̯s/

fals

1. false (untrue, not factual, wrong)

• English: false
• Scots: fause
• Yola: fause, faulse, valse
• → Irish: falsa, falsach, fallsa (superseded)

• “fals, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old Occitan , from Latin falsus (“false”).

• IPA^(key): /fals/

• Audio (Béarn):

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fals m (feminine singular falsa, masculine plural falses, feminine plural falsas)

1. false

• falsetat
• falsificar

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 470.
• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 287.

Borrowed from Latin falsus.

• IPA^(key): /fɑls/,

fals n

1. falsehood, fraud, counterfeit

fals

1. (of weight or coinage) false

• Middle English: fals, fauls, vals, faus, fauce (conflated with Old French fals)
  • English: false
  • Scots: fause
  • Yola: fause, faulse, valse
  • → Irish: falsa, falsach, fallsa (superseded)

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “fals”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “fals”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• falt, fro, faus, faux

From Latin falsus (“false”).

• IPA^(key): (early) /ˈfals/
• IPA^(key): (late) /ˈfaɫs/, /ˈfaws/

fals m (oblique and nominative feminine singular false)

1. false (untrue, not factual, wrong)

• Middle French: faulx
  • French: faux
    • → English: faux
• Norman: faux
• Picard: foe
• → Dutch: vals
• → Middle English: fals, fauls, vals, faus, fauce (partly)
  • English: false
  • Scots: fause
  • Yola: fause, faulse, valse
  • → Irish: falsa, falsach, fallsa (superseded)
• → Middle High German: vals, fals
• → Middle Low German: vals

• falș

Probably borrowed from Latin falsus (“false”). The variant form falș is from German falsch.

• IPA^(key): /fals/

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fals m or n (feminine singular falsă, masculine plural falși, feminine and neuter plural false)

1. false (untrue, not factual, wrong)

   Synonym: neadevărat

   Antonym: adevărat

From Dutch vals.

fals

1. vicious
2. angry

fals

1. to be angry