fals

English

Alternative forms

• fils

Etymology

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

Noun

fals (plural fulus)

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

Anagrams

• Salf, fasl

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. false (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Derived terms

• falsament

Related terms

• falsar
• falsedat
• falsejar

References

Further reading

• “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.

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin falsus.

Adjective

fals

1. false

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German valsch.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

Declension

Derived terms

Noun

fals (plural falsok)

1. (billiards) spin

Declension

References

Further reading

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

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fals/
• Rhymes: -als

Etymology 1

From Latin falsus.

Noun

fals n (genitive singular fals, nominative plural föls)

1. falseness, dissimulation

   Synonym: svik

2. fraud, imposture
3. forgery

   Synonym: fölsun

Declension

Related terms

• falsa (“to falsify”)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Danish fals.

Noun

fals n (genitive singular fals, nominative plural föls)

1. groove, notch

   Synonyms: skora, gróp

Declension

Indonesian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

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

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fauls, vals
• faus, fauce

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

fals

1. false (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Descendants

• English: false
• Scots: fause
• Yola: fause, faulss, valse
• → Irish: falsa, falsach; fallsa

References

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

Occitan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fals/

• Audio (Béarn)

  (file)

Adjective

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

1. false

Related terms

• falsetat
• falsificar

Further reading

• 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.

Old English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin falsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑls/,

Noun

fals n

1. falsehood, fraud, counterfeit

Declension

Adjective

fals

1. (of weight or coinage) false

Declension

Descendants

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

References

• 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.

Old French

Alternative forms

• falt, fro, faus, faux

Etymology

From Latin falsus (“false”).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

fals m (oblique and nominative feminine singular false)

1. false (untrue, not factual, wrong)

Declension

Descendants

• 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, faulss, valse
  • → Irish: falsa, falsach; fallsa
• → Middle High German: vals, fals
• → Middle Low German: vals

Romanian

Alternative forms

• falș

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fals/

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

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

Declension

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From Dutch vals.

Adjective

fals

1. vicious
2. angry

Verb

fals

1. to be angry