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Hungarian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From German Farbe (“colour”).
Noun
farba (plural farbák)
- (archaic, card games) colour (used only in expressions)
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
far + -ba
Noun
farba
- illative singular of far
Further reading
- farba in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- farba 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).
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from German Farbe. Doublet of barwa.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -arba
- Syllabification: far‧ba
Noun
farba f (diminutive farbka)
- paint (substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color to an object or surface to which it has been applied)
- (hunting) blood of a game animal
- Synonyms: jucha, posoka
- (Far Masovian) animal blood
Declension
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Further reading
- farba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- farba in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “farba”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 107
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Farbe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fâːrba/
- Hyphenation: far‧ba
Noun
fȃrba f (Cyrillic spelling фа̑рба)
- paint
- color, tint
- dye, colourant
Declension
Slovak
Etymology
Derived from German Farbe.
Pronunciation
Noun
farba f (genitive singular farby, nominative plural farby, genitive plural farieb, declension pattern of žena)
- color, colour
- dye
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “farba”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024