# fala
## Asturian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin fābula.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfala/ [ˈfa.la]
* Hyphenation: fa‧la

### Noun

fala f (plural fales)
* speaking, speech

#### Related terms

* falar

### Verb

fala
* third-person singular present indicative of falar
* second-person singular imperative of falar

## Fala
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfala/
* Rhymes: -ala
* Syllabification: fa‧la

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese fala, from Latin fābula (“discourse; narrative”).

#### Noun

fala f (countable and uncountable, plural falas)
* (uncountable, with definite article) Fala (Romance language of northwestern Extremadura)
** 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme IV, Chapter 2: O “Oiru” i o “Moiru” do diptongu “au” latinu:É algu que poi dal traballu a os estudiosus da fala, […]It is something which may be complicated for Fala scholars, […]
* (countable) a language or language variant, especially a minority or regional one
** 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme I, Chapter 2: Númerus?:As lenguas, idiomas, dialectus o falas tenin un-as funciós mui claras desde o principiu dos siglu i si hai contabilizaus en o mundu un-as 8.000 lenguas, ca un-a con sua importancia numérica relativa, a nossa fala é un tesoiru mais entre elas.The tongues, languages or regional variants have some very clear functions since the beginning of the centuries and some 8,000 languages have been accounted for in the world, each with its relative numerical importance, our Fala is another treasure among them.

##### Related terms

* falal (“to speak, to talk”)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

fala
* third-person singular present indicative of falal (“to speak”)
* second-person singular imperative of falal (“to speak”)

### References

* Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

## Galician
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fala (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fābula (“discourse; narrative”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfala/ [ˈfa.lɐ]
* Rhymes: -ala
* Hyphenation: fa‧la

### Noun

fala m (plural falas)
* voice, speech (faculty of speech)
** 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Cronica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación "Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa", page 567:
    Ata meodía nõ cobrou sua fala, nẽ seu entendemento.Till noon he didn't recover his voice nor his mind
** 1779, Diego Antonio Cernadas, Obras en Prosa y Verso, Madrid, page 315:Co o desexo de acordarvos, que en Galicia o seu funduxe ten a vosa nobre fruxe, vou en Gallego a falarvos: De esto non hai que estrañarvos; antes ben, facendo gala de esta nación, estimá-la, e si porque moito dista, non a conocés de vista, conocedea pola falaWith the desire to make you remember that in Galicia your noble lineage has its foundation, I'm gonna speak to you in Galician: no need to wonder for this; rather, taking pride of this nation, to love it, and if because of the distance, you don't know it by sight, let's you know it by its speech.
* a language, a dialect or a sociolect
** 1859, José Domínguez d'Esquerdo, Entonces e agora ou Coroas e cadeas do fidalgo povo galicián:deprende a fala francesa, ingresa ou italián, e non construie a galícea, encolle o lombo, cand'ouce falare do país en que nasceu!he learns the French, the English or the Italian languages, but can't elaborate in Galician, he flinches when he hears about the country where he was born!
* Galego, Galician language
** 1917, anonymous author, A Nosa Terra, number 7: Fai pouco tempo, e ben pouco por nosa indiferenza, qu'un feixe d'homes de vontade de ferro, axuntaronse, formando a santa e nobre Irmandade da Fala.Sometime ago, a very short time ago because of our indifference, a handful of men with an iron will, joining together, founded the holy and noble Brotherhood of the Fala.
* Fala (Galician-Portuguese language of northwestern Extremadura, in Spain)
* word, tale
* speech, expression
    Synonym: expresión

#### Related terms

* falar

### Verb

fala
* inflection of falar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

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

## Guinea-Bissau Creole
### Etymology

Inherited from Portuguese falar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu fala.

### Verb

fala
* to say
* to speak
* to talk

## Hungarian
### Etymology

fal (“wall”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfɒlɒ]
* Hyphenation: fa‧la

### Noun

fala
* third-person singular single-possession possessive of fal

#### Declension
## Icelandic
### Noun

fala
* indefinite genitive plural of falur

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* fola

### Etymology

From Middle Irish fola.

### Pronunciation

* (Munster) IPA: /ˈfˠɑl̪ˠə/
* (Aran) IPA: /ˈfˠɑlə/
* (Cois Fharraige, Mayo, Ulster) IPA: /ˈfˠalˠə/, /ˈfˠal̪ˠə/

### Noun

fala f (genitive singular fala, nominative plural falta)
* grudge, spite, resentment, feud
    Tá fala aici liom.She has a grudge against me.

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
fala
falta
vocative
a fhala
a fhalta
genitive
fala
falta
dative
fala
falta
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an fhala
na falta
genitive
na fala
na bhfalta
dative
leis an bhfala don fhala
leis na falta :

#### Derived terms

* ar eagla na fala thuas (“for fear of the wrath to come; to be morally on the safe side”)

### Mutation

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

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fola, fala”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 102

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fala”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fala”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin fala, from Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌋𐌀 (fala).

### Noun

fala f (plural fale)
* a siege tower

### Anagrams

* alfa

## Kabuverdianu
### Etymology

From Portuguese falar.

### Verb

fala
* speak

### References

* Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* phala

### Etymology

From Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌋𐌀 (fala).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfa.la/, [ˈfäɫ̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfa.la/, [ˈfäːlä]

### Noun

fala f (genitive falae); first declension
* (military) a siege tower

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* falārica

### References

* “fala”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* fala in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Malagasy
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *palaq, from Proto-Austronesian *palaq.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fala/

### Noun

fala
* vagina, vulva

## Old English
### Adjective

fala
* Alternative form of fela

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin fābula (“discourse, narrative”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfa.la/

### Noun

fala f (plural falas)
* discourse, narrative

#### Related terms

* falar

#### Descendants

* Fala: fala
* Galician: fala
* Portuguese: fala

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Welle. First attested in 1594. Displaced wełn.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfa.la/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /ˈfɒ.la/
* (Masovia):
** (Near Masovian) IPA: /ˈfa.la/
** (Far Masovian) IPA: /ˈfa.la/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ala
* Syllabification: fa‧la
* Homophone: Fala

### Noun

fala f (related adjective falowy)
* wave (rise in water caused by wind or underwater seismic movements)
* wave, surge (intensification of some phenomena)
** (obsolete) surge, burst, flurry (sudden onset of precipitation)
* wave, surge (very large number of people gathered in some place and constantly moving somewhere)
    Synonym: przypływ
    Fala turystów wracających z wakacji spowodowała korki na drogach. ― A wave of tourists returning from their holidays caused traffic jams on the roads.
* wave, surge (sudden appearance of intense feelings and sensations)
    Synonyms: przypływ, (obsolete) przystęp
* (physics) wave (moving disturbance in the energy level of a field)
* wave; curl (hairstyle resembling a wave)
    Synonym: karb
* bullying (teasing from a higher grade to a lower grade in school, etc.)
* (military) time remaining until the end of military service
* (military) soldiers from a singular draft
* wave (moving disturbance, undulation)
* (physics) wave (moving disturbance in a field)
* wave (sudden, but temporary, uptick in something)
    Synonyms: nasilenie, przypływ
* crowd, wave (large group of people)
    Synonym: przypływ
    Hypernym: tłum
* (Near Masovian) rainstorm; hailstorm
* (Far Masovian) windstorm (storm with wind and rain)

#### Derived terms

* falisty
* na falach eteru
* fala nośna
* fale długie
* fale krótkie
* fale radiowe
* fale średnie
* fale ultrakrótkie
* falochron
* interferencja fal
* martwa fala
* Nowa Fala
* zielona fala
* na fali
* falować impf
* być na fali impf
* nadawać na tych samych falach impf
* utrzymać się na fali pf, utrzymywać się na fali impf
* wylać oliwę na wzburzone fale pf, lać oliwę na wzburzone fale impf
* złapać falę pf, łapać falę impf

#### Descendants

* → Belarusian: хва́ля (xválja)
* → Ukrainian: хви́ля (xvýlja)

### Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), fala is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 65 times in scientific texts, 16 times in news, 8 times in essays, 17 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 110 times, making it the 558th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

### References

* ↑ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “fala”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
* ↑ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “fala”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
* ↑ Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “fala”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
* ↑ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “fala”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
* ↑ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “fala”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* ↑ Ida Kurcz (1990) “fala”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 116

### Further reading

* fala in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* fala in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Wiesław Morawski (29.11.2018) “FALA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “fala”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “fala”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “fala”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 713
* Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “fala”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
* fala in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
* Zygmunt Wasilewski (1889) “fala”, in Jagodne: wieś w powiecie łukowskim, gminie Dąbie: zarys etnograficzny (in Polish), Warsaw: M. Arct, page 241
* Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “fala”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 107

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfa.lɐ/
* Rhymes: -alɐ
* Homophone: fá-la
* Hyphenation: fa‧la

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese fala, from Latin fābula (“discourse, narrative”). Compare fábula, a borrowed doublet.

#### Alternative forms

* falla (obsolete)

#### Noun

fala f (plural falas)
* (uncountable) speech (the ability to speak; the state of not being mute)
    Antonyms: afonia, mudez
* a speech, a discourse
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:conversa
    A fala da personagemThe character's speech
    Justo na hora de sua apresentação, ele esqueceu sua fala.Right on time the for his presentation, he forgot his speech.
* accent (the way someone speaks)
    Synonyms: dicção, linguajar, pronúncia, sotaque
    A fala dele é muito engraçada.His accent is very funny.
* a dialect or regional variant of a language
    Synonyms: dialeto, variante
* a line of dialogue in a screenplay or script
    Ele praticava sua fala, um tanto nervoso.He practiced his line, nervously.
* (Brazil, informal) used to greet someone (equivalent to english sup)
    Fala Rodrigo, beleza?Sup Rodrigo, you good?

##### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fala.

##### Derived terms

* (dialect):
** fala de Estremadura
** fala de Xálima

##### Related terms

* falação
* faladeira
* falado
* falador
* falante
* falar
* falastrão
* falatório
* falável

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

fala
* inflection of falar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfala]

### Noun

fala f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of fală

## Samoan
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fala, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [Term?] (compare Indonesian pandan, Hawaiian hala).

### Noun

fala
* the screw pine, pandanus (Pandanus tectorius)
* a woven mat made from the leaves of the pandanus

## Scottish Gaelic
### Noun

fala f sg
* genitive singular of fuil

### Mutation

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

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fǎːla/
* Hyphenation: fa‧la

### Noun

fála f (Cyrillic spelling фа́ла)
* (colloquial) Nonstandard form of hvála (“thanks”).

## Spanish
### Verb

fala
* inflection of far:
** second-person singular imperative combined with la
** second-person singular voseo imperative combined with la

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology 1

From English fell or Dutch vellen.

#### Verb

fala
* to fell

### Etymology 2

From English fall.

#### Verb

fala
* to ebb

## Swahili
### Alternative forms

* fara

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

fala class V (plural mafala class VI)
* (derogatory) a fool, an imbecile (person with poor judgement or little intelligence)
    Synonym: mjinga

## Swedish
### Adjective

fala
* inflection of fal:
** definite singular
** plural

### Anagrams

* alfa

## Ternate
### Etymology

Cognate with Tidore fola, Tabaru woa, West Makian pala.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfa.la]

### Noun

fala
* house
    fala mari ― stonen house

### References

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

## Tongan
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fala, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [Term?] (compare Indonesian pandan, Hawaiian hala).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fa.la/

### Noun

fala
* a woven mat usually made from the leaves of the pandanus

#### Derived terms

* fakapopofala