fara

fara

1. inflection of farë:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

Borrowed from Russian фа́ра (fára, “headlight”), which in its turn is a borrowing from French phare with the same meaning, ultimately from Ancient Greek φάρος (pháros).

fara (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. headlight (on the front of a motor vehicle)

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002), Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[3], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [ˈfara]

fara f

1. parsonage, presbytery

From Old Norse fara, from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *por- (“going, passage”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛaːɹa/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːɹa

fara (third person singular past indicative fór, third person plural past indicative fóru, supine farið)

1. to go, to travel

• fara avstað

• IPA^(key): /fàː.ɽáː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɸàː.ɽáː]

fā̀rā f (plural fā̀rāi, possessed form fā̀rar̃)

1. locust, grasshopper

far (“buttocks”) +‎ -a (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒrɒ]
• Hyphenation: fa‧ra

fara

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of far

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaːra/
• Rhymes: -aːra

From Old Norse fara, from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *por- (“going, passage”).

fara (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative fór, third-person plural past indicative fóru, supine farið)

1. to go, to leave

   Ég fór út í búð og keypti brauð.

   I went to the store and bought bread.

   Ég er að fara.

   I am leaving.

• One peculiar property of the verb [að] fara ("[to] go") is that it can be repeated ad infinitum, as að fara also means "to be about to [be going to]...". For example:

  Ég er að fara að fara.

  I'm about to go.

  Ég er að fara að fara að fara.

  I'm about to be going to go.

  Ég er að fara að fara að fara að fara.

  I'm about to be going to be going to go.

  and it can be repeated ad nauseam. This is comparable to the English word that.

fara n

1. indefinite genitive plural of far

fara f

1. indefinite genitive plural of för

• afar

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Somali feer (“rib”) and Jiiddu fi'.

fara f (plural fadu n or fadu' n)

1. bone

• Mous, Maarten; Qorro, Martha; Kießling, Roland (2002), Iraqw-English Dictionary (Kuschitische Sprachstudien), volume 18, Köln, Germany: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, page 25

• IPA^(key): /ˈfˠaɾˠə/

From early modern double preposition fa ré (“along with”), from fa and ré (from Old Irish fri).^[1][2][3] Compare the Connacht form frae (“along with”) and freisin (“too, also”).

fara (plus dative, triggers no mutation, before the definite article fairis)

1. (rare, Munster) along with, beside
2. (rare, Munster) in addition to

   is beag fara leanbh atá ann

   he is little more than a child

   bacach fara bheith críonna

   lame as well as being old

• frae (Connacht)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “faré, fare”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “fara”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 427; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN – but note “the many errors in Dinneen’s treatment of the word” (O'Rahilly)^[1]

From Old Irish forad (“elevated seat”). Doublet of foradh.

fara m (genitive singular fara, nominative plural faraí)

1. perch, roost
2. alternative form of foradh

• ar an bhfara (“roosting”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “fara”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “forad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Borrowed from Polish fara.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ra/
• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: fa‧ra

fara f (related adjective (obsolete) farny)

1. (religion) parish church

   Synonym: kòscół parafialny

• Stefan Ramułt (1893), “fara”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 36
• Sychta, Bernard (1976), “fara”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich [Dictionary of Kashubian dialects] (in Polish), volume 7 (Suplement), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 62
• Jan Trepczyk (1994), “fara”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “fara”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[4]

Borrowed from German Pfarre, from Late Latin parochia, from Ancient Greek παροικία (paroikía).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfara/

fara f

1. manse, vicarage, parsonage, rectory

• fararnja

• faraŕ
• wufarowaś
• zafarski

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “fara”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999), “fara”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

From Old Norse fara, from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *por- (“going, passage”). Akin to English fare.

• fare (e infinitive)
• fårå, fårrå (dialectal)

• IPA^(key): /²fɑːrɑ/

fara (present tense fer, past tense fór, supine fare, past participle faren, present participle farande, imperative far)

1. travel, go, drive

   Kvar fer me no?

   Where do we go now?

   Eg må fara heimatt snarast mogleg. Når kjem bussen?

   I need to travel back home as soon as possible. When the bus coming?

2. move fast; rush

• This is a split infinitive verb.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːrɑ/

fara n

1. definite plural of far

• “fara” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑː.rɑ/
• Rhymes: -āra

fāra

1. genitive plural of fāh

From Proto-West Germanic *farō (“traveller”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑ.rɑ/
• Rhymes: -ara

fara m

1. traveller, farer

Weak:

• ġefara
• merefara
• tīdfara

• farena

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑ.rɑ/
• Rhymes: -ara

fara f

1. genitive plural of faru

From Proto-Germanic *fērō, whence Old English fær, Old Norse fár.

fāra f

1. danger, peril
2. A trick

• German: Gefahr

From Proto-Germanic *faraną. The sense of ‘to kill’ is equivalent to Old English forfaran and in older texts the verb is in this sense preceded by of.

fara (singular past indicative fór, plural past indicative fóru, past participle farit)

1. to fare, to travel
2. to kill, destroy

• Icelandic: fara
• Faroese: fara
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fara
• Elfdalian: fårå
• Old Swedish: fara
  • Swedish: fara
• Old Danish: fara, faræ
  • Danish: fare
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fare

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

From Old Norse fara, from Proto-Germanic *faraną.

fara

1. to go, to travel

• Swedish: fara

Borrowed from German Pfarre.^[1][2][3][4] First attested in 1553.^[5] Compare Silesian fara.

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: fa‧ra

fara f (related adjective farny)

1. (archaic, Christianity) parish church; parish (church that serves as the religious center of a parish; the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches)

   Synonym: kościół parafialny

2. (obsolete, education) parochial school (school associated with the parish of a church)
3. (Middle Polish, Christianity) parish (part of a diocese; costs associated with parish maintenance)

   Synonym: parafia

4. (Middle Polish, figurative, hapax legomenon, religion) hell (place of torment where some or all sinners and evil spirits are believed to go after death)

   Synonym: piekło

   • 1568, M. Rej, Zwierciadło‎^[5], page 118:

     Pánie ſtáry/ Porzuć cżáry/ Im ſie wiáry/ Gotuy máry/ By bez wiáry/ Dyabeł ſzáry/ Do ſwey fáry/ Zá ſwe dary/ W ſwe browáry Ná przewáry/ Nie wziął cie ná ſwiętá.

     [Panie stary/ Porzuć czary/ Im się wiary/ Gotuj mary/ By bez wiary/ Diabeł szary/ Do swej fary/ Za swe dary/ W swe browary na przewary/ Nie wziął cię na święta.]

• → Kashubian: fara
• → Slovincian: fara

• fara in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fara in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• fara in PWN's encyclopedia
• Wiesław Morawski (03.12.2018), “FARA”, 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), “fara”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “fara”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “fara”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 720
• Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965), “fara”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego

Borrowed from German Pfarre.

fȁra f (Cyrillic spelling фа̏ра)

1. (regional) parish, district

   Synonym: župa

Borrowed from German Pfarre. Compare Polish fara.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ra/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: fa‧ra

fara f (diminutive farka, related adjective farski or farny)

1. (Christianity) rectory, presbytery (residence of Roman Catholic priest(s) associated with a parish church)
2. (Christianity) parish (part of a diocese)

   Synonym: parafijŏ

3. situation, job, position, post

• fara in dykcjonorz.eu
• fara in silling.org
• Bogdan Kallus (2020), “fara”, in Słownik Gōrnoślōnskij Gŏdki, IV edition, Chorzów: Pro Loquela Silesiana, →ISBN, page 294
• Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022), “fara”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKR[i]BL, page 77
• Aleksandra Wencel (2023), “fara”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski, page 207

Borrowed from Polish fara.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ra/
• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: fa‧ra

fara f (related adjective farny)

1. (religion) parish church

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908), “fãră”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[6] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 242

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɾa/ [ˈfa.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: fa‧ra

fara f (plural faras)

1. Snake originating in Africa

fara

1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of far

• “fara”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

From English far.

fara

1. far

• farawe

• krosbei

• Audio (Kenya):

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fara class V (plural mafara class VI)

1. alternative form of fala

• Audio:

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From Old Swedish fara, from Old Norse fara, from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“going, passage”).

fara (present far, preterite for, supine farit, imperative far)

1. to go, to travel

• åka (iväg)

From Middle Low German vāre, vār, from Old Saxon *fāra, fār, from Proto-Germanic *fērō (“danger”), whence Old English fær, Old Norse fár, German Gefahr.

fara c

1. a danger

• farozon
• livsfara

• fara in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

• afar

• IPA^(key): [ˈfa.ɾa]

fara

1. a kind, type, category

• IPA^(key): [ˈfa.ɾa]

fara

1. a birthmark

• IPA^(key): [ˈfa.ɾa]

fara

1. (transitive) to separate

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

fara

1. dative singular of far (“headlight”)
2. dative singular of far (“eye shadow”)

From Proto-Bantu *-jípata.

fara

1. to hold

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [faː˧˧ ɹaː˧˧] ~ [faː˧˧ zaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [faː˧˧ ɹaː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [faː˧˧ ɹaː˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: pha Ra

fara

1. (physics) farad

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈvara/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈvaːra/, /ˈvara/

fara

1. soft mutation of bara (“bread”)