fara

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian фа́ра (fára, “headlight”), which in its turn is a borrowing from French phare with the same meaning, ultimately from Ancient Greek φάρος (pháros).

Noun

fara (accusative , plural )

1. headlight (on the front of a motor vehicle)

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Czech

Noun

fara f

1. parsonage, presbytery

Declension

Derived terms

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse fara, from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *por- (“going, passage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛaːɹa/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːɹa

Verb

fara (third person singular past indicative fór, third person plural past indicative fóru, supine farið)

1. to go, to travel

Conjugation

Derived terms

• fara avstað

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fàː.ɽáː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

Noun

fā̀rā f (plural fā̀rāi, possessed form fā̀rar̃)

1. locust, grasshopper

Hungarian

Etymology

far (“buttocks”) +‎ -a (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: fa‧ra

Noun

fara

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of far

Declension

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaːra/
• Rhymes: -aːra

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fara, from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *por- (“going, passage”).

Verb

fara (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative fór, third-person plural past indicative fóru, supine farið)

1. to go, to leave

   Ég fór út í búð og keypti brauð.

   I went to the store and bought bread.

   Ég er að fara.

   I am leaving.

Usage notes

• One peculiar property of the verb fara (" go") is that it can be repeated ad infinitum, as að fara also means "to be about to ...". For example:

  Ég er að fara að fara.

  I'm about to go.

  Ég er að fara að fara að fara.

  I'm about to be going to go.

  Ég er að fara að fara að fara að fara.

  I'm about to be going to be going to go.

  and it can be repeated ad nauseam. This is comparable to the English word that.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• för
• fara af
• farðu til fjandans!
• farðu í rass!
• farðu til helvítis!
• verða að fara núna
• verða að fara
• fara að sofa
• fara í
• fara í kringum
• fara á fætur
• fara í sleik
• fara versnandi
• fara vægt í sakirnar
• fara hægt í sakirnar
• fara úr öskunni í eldinn
• fara eins og eldur í sinu
• fara eins og logi yfir akur
• fara í kringum eins og köttur í kringum heitan graut
• heimur versnandi fer
• langförull
• víðförull

Etymology 2

Noun

fara n

1. indefinite genitive plural of far

Etymology 3

Noun

fara f

1. indefinite genitive plural of för

Anagrams

• afar

Iraqw

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Oromo lafee and Rendille laf, Somali laf, Afar lafa, Saho lafa, Jiiddu lafi.

Noun

fara f (plural fadu n or fadu' n)

1. bone

References

• Mous, Maarten, Qorro, Martha, Kießling, Roland (2002) Iraqw-English Dictionary (Kuschitische Sprachstudien), volume 18, Köln, Germany: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, page 25

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfˠaɾˠə/

Etymology 1

From early modern double preposition fa ré (“along with”), from fa and ré (from Old Irish fri). Compare the Connacht form frae (“along with”) and freisin (“too, also”).

Preposition

fara (plus dative, triggers no mutation, before the definite article fairis)

1. (rare, Munster) along with, beside
2. (rare, Munster) in addition to

   is beag fara leanbh atá ann

   he is little more than a child

   bacach fara bheith críonna

   lame as well as being old

Inflection

Synonyms

• frae (Connacht)

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “faré, fare”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “fara”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society – but note “the many errors in Dinneen’s treatment of the word” (O'Rahilly)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish forad (“elevated seat”). Doublet of foradh.

Noun

fara m (genitive singular fara, nominative plural faraí)

1. perch, roost
2. Alternative form of foradh

Declension

Derived terms

• ar an bhfara (“roosting”)

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fara”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “forad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Mutation

References

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Pfarre, from Late Latin parochia, from Ancient Greek παροικία (paroikía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfara/

Noun

fara f inan

1. manse, vicarage, parsonage, rectory

Declension

Synonyms

• fararnja

Derived terms

• faraŕ
• wufarowaś
• zafarski

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “fara”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “fara”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fara, from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *por- (“going, passage”). Akin to English fare.

Alternative forms

• fare (e infinitive)
• fårå (dialectal)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²fɑːrɑ/

Verb

fara (present tense fer, past tense fór, supine fare, past participle faren, present participle farande, imperative far)

1. travel, go, drive

   Kvar fer me no?

   Where do we go now?

   Eg må fara heimatt snarast mogleg. Når kjem bussen?

   I need to travel back home as soon as possible. When the bus coming?

2. move fast; rush

Conjugation

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːrɑ/

Noun

fara n

1. definite plural of far

References

• “fara” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fērō, whence Old English fær, Old Norse fár.

Noun

fāra f

1. danger, peril
2. A trick

Descendants

• German: Gefahr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *faraną. The sense of ‘to kill’ is equivalent with Old English forfaran and in older texts the verb is in this sense preceded by of.

Verb

fara (singular past indicative fór, plural past indicative fóru, past participle farit)

1. to fare, to travel
2. to kill, destroy

Conjugation

Descendants

• Icelandic: fara
• Faroese: fara
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fara
• Elfdalian: fårå
• Old Swedish: fara
  • Swedish: fara
• Danish: fare
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fare

References

• “fara”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse fara, from Proto-Germanic *faraną.

Verb

fara

1. to go, to travel

Conjugation

Descendants

• Swedish: fara

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Pfarre.

Adjective

fȁra f (Cyrillic spelling фа̏ра)

1. (regional) parish, district

   Synonym: župa

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɾa/
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: fa‧ra

Noun

fara f (plural faras)

1. Snake originating in Africa

Further reading

• “fara”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English far.

Adjective

fara

1. far

Synonyms

• farawe

Antonyms

• krosbei

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Noun

fara (ma class, plural mafara)

1. Alternative form of fala

Swedish

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish fara, from Old Norse fara, from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“going, passage”).

Verb

fara (present far, preterite for, supine farit, imperative far)

1. to go, to travel

Conjugation

Synonyms

• åka (iväg)

Related terms

• befara
• erfara
• fara illa
• förfara
• genomfara
• medvara
• vederfara

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German vāre, vār, from Old Saxon *fāra, fār, from Proto-Germanic *fērō (“danger”), whence Old English fær, Old Norse fár, German Gefahr.

Noun

fara c

1. a danger

Declension

Related terms

• farozon
• livsfara

Anagrams

• afar

Ternate

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

fara

1. a kind, type, category

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

fara

1. a birthmark

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

fara

1. (transitive) to separate

Conjugation

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Turkish

Noun

fara

1. dative singular of far (“headlight”)
2. dative singular of far (“eye shadow”)

Venda

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jípata.

Verb

fara

1. to hold

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): ~
• (Huế) IPA^(key):
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic: pha Ra

Noun

fara

1. (physics) farad

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈvara/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈvaːra/, /ˈvara/

Noun

fara

1. soft mutation of bara (“bread”)

Mutation