folga

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

Deverbal from folgar.

folga f (plural folgues)

1. joke, pleasantry

   Synonym: broma

2. rest from work
3. laziness
4. act of enjoying oneself

   Synonyms: folgança, diversió

• folgós

folga

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

• “folga”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

Attested since circa 1300. Back-formation from folgar. Cognate with Portuguese folga and Spanish huelga and juerga

• IPA^(key):

folga m (plural folgas)

1. rest
2. fallow
3. strike, stoppage

folga

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

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

Borrowed from Middle High German volge (“obedience; assent”).^{[1][2][3][4][5]} First attested in 1462.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /fɔlʲɡa/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /fɔlʲɡa/

folga f

1. obedience
   • 1868 [1462], Akta grodzkie i ziemskie z czasów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej : z archiwum tak zwanego bernardyńskiego we Lwowie w skutek fundacyi śp. Alexandra hr. Stadnickiego‎, volume XI, page 483:

     Ibidem domini iurati et scabini fecerunt et faciunt sequelam registro al. folga, quod superius est notatum in suis punctis

     [Ibidem domini iurati et scabini fecerunt et faciunt sequelam registro al. folgę, quod superius est notatum in suis punctis]

• Polish: folga

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “folga”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

folgi

Wikipedia ^pl

Inherited from Old Polish folga. Sense 3 is reinforced by contamination with folia.^[1] Cognate with German Folge and English follow.

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• Rhymes: -ɔlɡa
• Syllabification: fol‧ga

folga f

1. (uncountable, obsolete, literary or regional fossilized in set phrases) relief (rest from work)

   Synonyms: ulga, wytchnienie

2. play, looseness (ability to move of something attached to something else)
4. (obsolete, countable, by extension) thin metal tray placed under expensive stones to increase their shine (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

   Synonyms: folia, (obsolete) zakładka

5. (Middle Polish) anything placed underneath something else as support
6. (countable, literary, by extension) lame (thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor)
7. (Middle Polish) inattention

   Synonym: niebaczność

folga

1. (Far Masovian) wait! stop!

• folga in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• folga in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “folga”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “folga”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “folga”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “FOLGA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 15.09.2008
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “folga”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “folga”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “folga”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 757
• M. Arcta Słownik Staropolski/Folga on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource ^pl
• Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “folga”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 107

Deverbal from folgar. Compare Spanish huelga (“strike”).

folga f (plural folgas)

1. rest, day off (from work)

   Amanhã é meu dia de folga.

   Tomorrow is my day off.

   • 2015, “Dia de folga”, in Jorge Cruz (lyrics), Moura, performed by Ana Moura:

     É dia de folga! / Folga de ser-se quem se é / E de fazer tudo porque tem que ser / Folga para ao menos uma vez / A vida ser como nos apetecer

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. respite; break (a brief interval of rest or relief)

   O professor não me dá folga!

   The teacher doesn’t give me a break.

3. slack (extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely)

   A corda tem muita folga, precisamos amarrá-la melhor.

   The rope has too much slack, we need to tie it better.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

folga

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