# fá
## Bassa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [fá]

### Verb

fá
* to lose
* to tear

### References

* Bassa-English Dictionary
* 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

## Faroese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔɑː/
* Rhymes: -ɔɑː

### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

fá
* inflection of fáur:
** strong feminine nominative singular
** strong neuter nominative/accusative plural

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse fá, from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną.

#### Verb

fá (third person singular past indicative fekk, third person plural past indicative fingu, supine fingið)
* (archaic, poetic) to get

##### Synonyms

* fáa

## Ghomala'
### Pronunciation

Rhymes: -a

### Verb

fá alternate of ?
* to drown
    Mú wə́ fá shyə. ― The child is drowning.

#### Derived terms

* fányə́

### References

* Erika Eichholzer (editor) et al, Dictionnaire ghomala’ (2002)
* Gabriel Mba, Les extensions verbales en Ghomala' - Journal of West African Languages XXVI.1 (1996-97)

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfaː]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -faː

### Noun

fá (plural fák)
* fa, a syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth note of a major scale
    Coordinate terms: dó, ré, mi, szó, lá, ti

#### Declension

Its inflected forms are uncommon.
or (as a means of distinction from the inflection of fa (“tree”))

### Further reading

* (2): fa 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
* (Hungarian) An article on solfège with hand signs

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse fá, from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną. Doublet of fanga (“to capture, to seize”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fauː/
* Rhymes: -auː

### Verb

fá (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative fékk, third-person plural past indicative fengu, supine fengið)
* to receive, to get [with accusative]
    Synonym: eignast
* to give [with dative ‘someone’ and accusative ‘something’]
    Synonyms: gefa, láta af hendi

#### Derived terms

* fá allt upp í hendurnar
* fá flugu í hausinn
* fá sér göngutúr
* fást

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* (Ulster) IPA: /fˠaː/, (unstressed) /fˠa/

### Etymology 1
#### Preposition

fá (plus dative, triggers lenition)
* Ulster form of faoi (“about, concerning”)

##### Usage notes

The standard Irish and Connacht form faoi and the Munster form fé mean both ‘under’ and ‘about, concerning’. In Ulster, these two meanings are split: faoi means ‘under’, while fá means ‘about, concerning’.

##### Derived terms

* fád (contraction with do (“your sg”))
* fám (contraction with mo (“my”))
* fán corresponding to standard faoin
* fána corresponding to standard faoina
* fánar corresponding to standard faoinar
* fánár corresponding to standard faoinár
* fánarb corresponding to standard faoinarb
* fánarbh corresponding to standard faoinarbh

### Etymology 2
#### Particle

fá (triggers h-prothesis)
* Alternative form of fa, obsolete form of ba (“was”) (past affirmative and relative of is).
** 2014 [1628–1634], Geoffrey Keating, edited by Beatrix Färber, David Comyn, Patrick S. Dinneen, Foras Feasa ar Éirinn‎, CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts:gurab Alba fá hainm don chrích sinthat that country’s name was Scotland

##### Related terms

Simple copular forms :
| | | affirmative | negative | interrogative | neg. inter. |
| present/future ||||||
| main clauses | main clauses | is | ní | an | nach |
| relative clauses | direct | is | nach | – | – |
| relative clauses | indirect | ar, arb$^v$ | nach | – | – |
| other subordinate clauses | other subordinate clauses | gur, gurb$^v$ | nach | an | nach |
| past/conditional ||||||
| main clauses | main clauses | ba, b’$^v$ | níor, níorbh$^v$ | ar, arbh$^v$ | nár, nárbh$^v$ |
| relative clauses | direct | ba, ab$^v$ | nár, nárbh$^v$ | – | – |
| relative clauses | indirect | ar, arbh$^v$ | nár, nárbh$^v$ | – | – |
| other subordinate clauses | other subordinate clauses | gur, gurbh$^v$ | nár, nárbh$^v$ | ar, arbh$^v$ | nár, nárbh$^v$ |
| present subjunctive ||||||
| | | gura, gurab$^v$ | nára, nárab$^v$ | – | – |
Compound copular forms :
| base word | present/future | past/conditional |
| cá | cár, cárb$^v$ | cár, cárbh$^v$ |
| cé | cér, cérb$^v$ | cér, cérbh$^v$ |
| dá | – | dá mba, dá mb’$^v$ |
| de/do | dar, darb$^v$ | dar, darbh$^v$ |
| faoi | faoinar, faoinarb$^v$ | faoinar, faoinarbh$^v$ |
| i | inar, inarb$^v$ | inar, inarbh$^v$ |
| le | lenar, lenarb$^v$ | lenar, lenarbh$^v$ |
| má | más | má ba, má b’$^v$ |
| mura | mura, murab$^v$ | murar, murarbh$^v$ |
| ó (prep.) | ónar, ónarb$^v$ | ónar, ónarbh$^v$ |
| ó (conj.) | ós | ó ba, ó b’$^v$ |
| trí | trínar, trínarb$^v$ | trínar, trínarbh$^v$ |
$^v$ Used before vowel sounds :

### References

* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 313, page 110

## Lahu
### Verb

fá
* to hide something

### See also

* vàʔ (to hide oneself)

### References

* James A. Matisoff (2006) English-Lahu Lexicon, London, England: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 52

## Mandarin
### Alternative forms

* fa — nonstandard

### Romanization

fá (fa$^2$, Zhuyin ㄈㄚˊ)
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 乏
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 伐
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 垡
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 姂
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 拨
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 撤
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 栰
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 泚
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 疺
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瞁
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 砝
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 筏
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 罚
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 罰 / 罚
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 罸
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 茷
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 藅
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 閥 / 阀
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 法

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [βa(ː)]

### Conjunction

fá
* Alternative spelling of fa (“or”)

## Old Norse
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *fanhaną.

#### Verb

fá (singular past indicative fekk, plural past indicative fengu, past participle fenginn)
* to get

##### Descendants

* Icelandic: fá
* Faroese: fáa, fá
* Norwegian: få
* Elfdalian: fą̊
* Old Swedish: fā
** Swedish: få
* Old Danish: fā
** Danish: få

#### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “fá”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 130; also available at the Internet Archive

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Norse ᚠᚨᛁᚺᛁᛞᛟ (faihido), ᚠᚨᚺᛁᛞᛟ (fahido) (1st singular past indicative), from Proto-Germanic *faihijaną.

#### Verb

fá
* to draw, paint (runes)

##### Alternative forms

* ᚠᛅᚦᛁ (faþi), ᚠᛆᚦᛁ (faþi) — third singular past indicative

##### Descendants

* Icelandic: fá
* Norwegian Nynorsk: få (uncommon)

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

fá
* positive degree strong feminine nominative/accusative singular of fár
* positive degree strong neuter dative singular of fár
* positive degree strong neuter nominative/accusative plural of fár
* positive degree weak masculine accusative/dative/genitive singular of fár
* positive degree weak feminine singular of fár
* positive degree weak neuter nominative singular of fár
* positive degree weak nominative/accusative/genitive plural of fár

#### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “fá”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 131; also available at the Internet Archive

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin fa[muli] in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈfa/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈfa/
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: fá

### Noun

fá m (plural fás)
* fa (musical note)

#### Coordinate terms

* (C major scale) escala de dó maior; dó, ré, mi, fá, sol, lá, si

### Verb

fá
* Apocopic form of faz; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las

## Scanian
### Etymology

From Old Norse fá, from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [fáʊː], [fóː], [fɛ́ɑː]

### Verb

fá (preterite singular fikk or fe, preterite plural finge, supine fáeð)
* to get