faule

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɔːl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːl

Noun

faule (plural faules)

  1. (obsolete) A fall or falling band[1].
    • 1648, Robert Herrick, “[His Noble Numbers: Or, His Pious Pieces, [].] The Dirge of Jephthahs Daughter: Sung by the Virgins.”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine [], London: [] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, [], →OCLC, stanza 8, page 27:
      To guild thy Tombe; beſides, theſe Caules, / Theſe Laces, Ribbands, and theſe Faules, / Theſe Veiles, vvherevvith vve uſe to hide / The Baſhfull Bride, / VVhen vve conduct her to her Groome: / All, all vve lay upon thy Tombe.

Verb

faule

  1. Obsolete spelling of fall

References

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin fabula.

Noun

faule f (plural faules)

  1. fable

German

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

Adjective

faule

  1. inflection of faul:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Plautdietsch

Verb

faule

  1. to fall

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -awli, (Portugal) -awlɨ
  • Hyphenation: fau‧le

Verb

faule

  1. inflection of faular:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative