Faro

From Portuguese Faro, from Old Galician-Portuguese Faaron.

Faro

1. A city in Portugal.

Faro

1. A municipality of Pará, Brazil.
2. A department of the North Region, Cameroon.
3. A town in central Yukon, Canada.
4. An unincorporated community in Twelvemile Township, Madison County, Missouri, United States.
5. An unincorporated community in Wayne County, North Carolina, United States.

• Afro, Afro-, RAFO, afro, fora

Borrowed from Portuguese Faro, from Old Galician-Portuguese Faaron.

Faro n (proper noun, genitive Faros or (optionally with an article) Faro)

1. Faro (a city in Portugal)

Ellipsis of Punta del Faro (literally “Lighthouse Point”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ro/
• Rhymes: -aro
• Hyphenation: Fà‧ro

Faro m

1. (chiefly historical, otherwise colloquial southern Italian) Capo Peloro; Faro Point (the historical demarcation between the Two Sicilies by the Strait of Messina, where the island of Sicily makes its closest approach to the Italian mainland; historically used as a reference point to distinguish the two, as both claimed to be the Kingdom of Sicily)

• Punta del Faro in Treccani.it – Enciclopedia Italiana (1937), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Fárão (obsolete)

From earlier Fárão. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Faaron, from Arabic هَارُون (hārūn), from Hebrew אהרן (Ahărōn, “Aaron”).^[1] Doublet of Aarão. The city was named after a local Moorish qadi.

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• Homophone: faro
• Rhymes: -aɾu
• Hyphenation: Fa‧ro

Faro m

1. Faro (a city and municipality of the district of Faro, Algarve, Portugal)
2. Faro (a district in southern Portugal)

Faro is never indicated by an article; see usage notes for Portugal.

• farense
• Aarão