# faca
## Galician
### Etymology 1

Unknown. Probably not from Latin falx, from which originates fouce (“sickle”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfaka̝/

#### Noun

faca f (plural facas)
* a large pocketknife
* (regional) knife

### Etymology 2

From Old French haque, from Middle English hack, from Hackney, a borough of London famous for its horses. Cognate with Spanish jaca.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfaka̝/

#### Noun

faca f (plural facas)
* a mare
** 1455, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 316:Iten, que furtara a faqa a Pero Gayo da sua casa, que está á par da vila de Ribadauia, da casa que está á par da ponte, et que lla furtara con a sella e con o freo et que fora despois por ela preso ena CruñaItem, that he stole the mare of Pedro Gaio, from his house that is near the town of Ribadavia, by the bridge; and that he stole her with saddle and bridle, and that later he was captured because of her in A Coruña

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “faca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “faqa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “faca”, 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), “faca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “faca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Cf. Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “faca”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* facaidh

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfˠakə/

### Verb

faca
* past indicative dependent analytic of feic
    Ceapaim go bhfaca sé an madra.I think that he saw the dog.

#### Usage notes

* Always occurs either lenited or eclipsed depending on the preverbal particle:
    Ní fhaca mé. ― I didn’t see.
    an áit a bhfaca mé an buachaill inti ― the place where I saw the boy
* Takes the forms of preverbal particles normally associated with the present tense, such as go, an, and nach, rather than gur, ar, and nár:
    An bhfaca tú? ― Did you see?
    Nach bhfaca tú? ― Didn’t you see?

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “faca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fhaca”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “fhaca”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Old English
### Noun

faca
* genitive plural of fæc

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from Latin falx (“sickle”).
Cognate with Galician faca.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfa.kɐ/
* Rhymes: -akɐ
* Hyphenation: fa‧ca

### Noun

faca f (plural facas)
* knife
    Synonym: (Portugal, informal, slang) naifa

#### Derived terms

* esfaquear
* faca de dois gumes
* facada
* facalhaz
* facão
* faqueiro
* faquinha

### References

* ↑ “faca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “faca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish ·accae.

### Pronunciation

* (Lewis) IPA: /ˈfãʰkə/
* (Uist) IPA: /ˈfãxkə/

### Verb

faca
* past dependent of faic

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
* ↑ Mac Gill-Fhinnein, Gordon (1966) Gàidhlig Uidhist a Deas, Dublin: Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Venetan fazza.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fât͡sa/
* Hyphenation: fa‧ca

### Noun

fȁca f (Cyrillic spelling фа̏ца) (colloquial, slang)
* face, expression
    Synonyms: líce, fizionòmija
* person, guy
    Synonym: ȍsoba

#### Declension
### References

* “faca”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfaka/ [ˈfa.ka]
* Rhymes: -aka
* Syllabification: fa‧ca

### Noun

faca f (plural facas)
* a curved knife

#### Derived terms

* facón

### Further reading

* “faca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10