fa

Clipping of English Farsi, from Persian فارسی (fârsi), from Arabic فارسي (fārisiyy).

fa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Persian.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Persian terms

• fah

• IPA^(key): /fɑ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑː

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English fa (“fourth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian fa in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin famulī (“servants”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

fa (plural fas)

1. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing the Arrival of an Irish Gentleman, with very extraordinary Adventures which ensued at the Inn”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book X, pages 11–12:

     And now Mrs. Waters (for we muſt confeſs ſhe was in the ſame Bed) being, I ſuppoſe, awakened from her Sleep, and ſeeing two Men fighting in her Bed-chamber, began to ſcream in the moſt violent Manner, crying out Murder! Robbery! and more frequently Rape! which laſt, ſome, perhaps, may wonder ſhe ſhould mention, who do not conſider that theſe Words of Exclamation are uſed by Ladies in a Fright, as Fa, la, la, ra, da, &c. are in Muſic, only as the Vehicles of Sound, and without any fixed Ideas.

sol-fa

fa

1. (informal) Alternative spelling of for.
   • 2000, Requiem for a Dream, spoken by Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto):

     Do ya wanna be a dope fiend fa krist’s sake?

• AF, Af, af

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfa]
• Rhymes: -a

fa m (plural fas)

1. (music) fa (fourth note of diatonic scale)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fa

1. third-person singular present indicative of fer

fa

1. ago

   fa molts anys...

   many years ago...

fa

1. (dialectal) a particle used in some dialects to emphasize a negative sentence

   Fa que no es veu!

   it’s obvious!

   (literally, “it does that it's not seen!”)

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fa (infinitive kufá)

1. to die
2. to have a stroke
3. to be infertile
4. to spend or give out money

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -fera
  • Causative: -fetsa
  • Negative: -safa
  • Other formations: -fa mutu (“to be amazed, to be stupefied”)

• Nominal derivations:
  • imfa (“death”)
  • kuloŵa kufa (“the practice of making a widow sleep with a man to put her former husband's soul at rest”)

• Steven Paas (2016) Oxford Chichewa-English/English - Chichewa Dictionary‎^[1], Oxford University Press, page 138

fa

1. abbreviation of firma

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Borrowed from Latin fa.

• IPA^(key): /faː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fa
• Rhymes: -aː

fa m (plural fa's, diminutive faatje n)

1. (music) fa (fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) musical note)
2. (music) F (the musical clef or key)

• fasleutel

• IPA^(key): /fa/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

fa m (plural fa)

1. (music) fa, the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note 'F'

• clef de fa

• “fa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

fa m (plural fas)

1. (music) fa (musical note)
2. (music) F (the musical note or key)

fa

1. romanization of 𐍆𐌰

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-kúa

-fa (infinitive kufa)

1. to die
2. to be dysfunctional

• -fa kimigiriri (“to endure silenty”)
• -fiiriza (“to deprive, to deny”)
• -fiirwa (“to suffer loss”)
• -fiisya (“to be bereaved”)

• Lugwere Dictionary‎^[2], SIL International, (Can we date this quote?)

• IPA^(key): /fa/, [fʷa]

fa

1. to drink

From Proto-Uralic *puwe. Cognates include Finnish puu.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -fɒ

fa (countable and uncountable, plural fák)

1. tree (large woody plant)

   Meronyms: rügy, hajtás, vessző, gally, ág, törzs, gyökér, levél, lomb, korona, termés, gyümölcs

2. wood (substance beneath the bark of the trunk or branches of a tree)
3. (graph theory) tree (connected graph with no cycles)
4. (computing theory) tree (recursive data structure)
5. (attributive) wooden (made of wood)

• (tree, wood): fa in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (“fa”, a syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth note of a major scale; alternative form of fá): fa in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• fa in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• fá, ba, badh, budh

fa (triggers h-prothesis)

1. 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^[3], CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts:

     gurab Alba fá hainm don chrích sin

     that that country’s name was Scotland

   • 1939 [c. 13th century], “Bean ós mhnáibh cáich Cailleach Dé”, in Lambert McKenna, editor, Aithdioghluim Dána‎^[4], Dublin:

     Is leomhan Ó mBriun an bhean / siur ga seoladh [ar] a son, / síol na n-ealta fa díon damh, / síol glan nach ba creachta ar gcrodh.

     A lion-hero of the Í Bhriuin is this lady, a sister that guides them by her words; noble the offspring of that flock, my guardians (ensuring) that all I own be safe from harrying.

     (literally, “(…) the seed of the flock which was protection to me, noble seed (…)”)

fa (plus dative, triggers lenition)

1. obsolete form of faoi (“under”)
2. obsolete form of um (“about, concerning”)

In the meaning about it was followed by a noun in accusative.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa/^*
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: fà
• Unlike for the musical note below, this word always triggers syntactic gemination. Hence for example fa freddo (“it's cold”, literally “it makes cold”) is pronounced /ˈfa‿fˈfreddo/.

fa

1. third-person singular present indicative of fare

fa

1. ago

   Synonym: prima

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa/^°
• IPA^(key): (traditional) /ˈfa/^*
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: fà
• Unlike for the verb form and derived adverb, this word (and other terms for musical notes) do not trigger syntactic gemination in modern usage, although they did traditionally. Hence fa sol la (“fa sol la”) is now pronounced /ˈfa ˈsɔl ˈla/, but traditionally /ˈfa‿sˈsɔl ˈla/.

fa m (invariable)

2. (music) fa (fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) musical note)
3. F (musical note or key)

fa

1. The katakana syllable ファ (fa) in Hepburn-like romanization.

fa (intensive aorist yettfay, aorist ifa, preterite ifa, negative preterite ifa)

1. to yawn

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fá

1. to die

fa m (invariable)

1. (music) fa, the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note 'F'.

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fa (intransitive)

1. to die
2. to be killed; be destroyed
3. to spoil; become useless
4. to get into trouble; be in a jam
5. to go sour (e.g. of milk)

• Snoxall, R. A. (1967) Luganda-English Dictionary - with an Introduction on the Tonal System, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 74
• Murphy, John D. (1972) Luganda-English Dictionary, United States: The Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN, page 72
• Entry 2089 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3

fa (fa⁵ / fa⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄈㄚ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 𠲎

fa

1. nonstandard spelling of fā
2. nonstandard spelling of fá
3. nonstandard spelling of fǎ
4. nonstandard spelling of fà

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

From Old Irish fáth, from Proto-Celtic *wātus (“inspired utterance”) (compare Welsh gwawd (“song, praise, poetry”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t-.

fa m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. reason, cause

• oyr

• cre'n fa
• gyn fa gyn oyr

fa

1. alternative form of fo

fa

1. alternative form of fo

• IPA^(key): /fa/
• Rhymes: -a

fa

1. third-person singular present indicative of fà

Niuean cardinal numbers

<  3	4	5  >
Cardinal : fa

From Proto-Polynesian *fa, from Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

fa

1. four

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• Audio (Jersey):

  (file)

fa m (plural fas)

1. (Jersey) suit (clothing)

• suit

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fá

1. to die

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Latin famuli, from the first word of the fourth line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn on which solfège was based because its lines started on each note of the scale successively. Through Italian.

• IPA^(key): /fɑː/

  • Audio:

    (file)

fa m (definite singular fa-en, indefinite plural fa-ar, definite plural fa-ane)

2. (music) fa, a syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale.

• (scale of solfège): do, re, mi, fa, sol or so, la, ti, do

• “fa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fa (infinitive ohufa)

1. to die

• ehiguudyo hy'ohufa (“death sentence, capital punishment”)
• ohufaaho (“to be unconscious, to be in a coma”)
• ohufaania (“to regain consciousness; to understand, to recognise, to perceive”)
• ohutafa (“to be immortal, to have everlasting life”)

• Diprose, Martin, Musimami, Sylvester N. M. (2012) Lunyole–English Dictionary‎^[5], SIL International

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fa (infinitive kufa)

1. to die

• impfa (“death”)

• Wycliffe Bible Translators, ciNyungwe Biblyia, 2019

fā

1. alternative form of fāh

From Proto-West Germanic *fą̄han, from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną. Cognates include Old English fōn, Old Saxon fāhan and Old Dutch fān.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaː/

fā

1. (transitive) to catch

• Saterland Frisian: fange
• West Frisian: fange

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

• fá, ba, bá

Apparently a derivative of some form of the copula is that is from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.

• IPA^(key): [βa]

fa (triggers lenition)

1. (in indirect interrogative clauses) or

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fa.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fa, ba, fo”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 464, page 291; reprinted 2017

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

fā

1. to seize, take
2. to get, receive

• Swedish: få

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fá

1. to die

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /fa/

fa

1. Doric Scots form of wha (“who”)

   Fa's this quine, en?

   Who's this girl, then?

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fá (infinitive kufá)

1. to die

• rufu

From Proto-Bantu *-páa.

fa

1. to give

South Marquesan cardinal numbers

<  3	4	5  >
Cardinal : fa

From Proto-Polynesian *fa, from Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

fa

1. four

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fá

1. to die

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa/ [ˈfa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: fa

fa m (plural fa)

1. fa (fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) musical note)

fa

1. (Argentina) ew, phew (expression of disgust)

   Synonyms: puaj, guácala

fa

1. inflection of far:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. second-person singular voseo imperative

• “fa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

fa

1. how

fa

1. as soon as

Short for a phrase such as fa fu yu? or fa a e go?

fa?

1. hi; how are you?; how's it going?

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

-fa (infinitive kufa)

1. to die

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fa

2. to stop, come to an end

Conjugation of -fa
Positive present -nakufa Subjunctive -fe Negative -fi Imperative singular kufa
Infinitives
Positive kufa Negative kutokufa
Imperatives
Singular kufa Plural kufeni
Tensed forms
Habitual hufa Positive past positive subject concord + -likufa Negative past negative subject concord + -kufa
Positive present (positive subject concord + -nakufa) Singular Plural 1st person ninakufa/nakufa tunakufa 2nd person unakufa mnakufa 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anakufa wanakufa other classes positive subject concord + -nakufa
Negative present (negative subject concord + -fi) Singular Plural 1st person sifi hatufi 2nd person hufi hamfi 3rd person m-wa(I/II) hafi hawafi other classes negative subject concord + -fi
Positive future positive subject concord + -takufa Negative future negative subject concord + -takufa
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -fe) Singular Plural 1st person nife tufe 2nd person ufe mfe 3rd person m-wa(I/II) afe wafe other classes positive subject concord + -fe
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sife Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngekufa Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singekufa Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalikufa Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalikufa
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -afa) Singular Plural 1st person nafa twafa 2nd person wafa mwafa 3rd person m-wa(I/II) afa wafa m-mi(III/IV) wafa yafa ji-ma(V/VI) lafa yafa ki-vi(VII/VIII) chafa vyafa n(IX/X) yafa zafa u(XI) wafa see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwafa pa(XVI) pafa mu(XVIII) mwafa
Perfect positive subject concord + -mekufa "Already" positive subject concord + -meshakufa "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jafa "If/When" positive subject concord + -kifa "If not" positive subject concord + -sipokufa Consecutive kafa / positive subject concord + -kafa Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kafe
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -nifa -tufa 2nd person -kufa -wafa/-kufeni/-wafeni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mfa -wafa m-mi(III/IV) -ufa -ifa ji-ma(V/VI) -lifa -yafa ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kifa -vifa n(IX/X) -ifa -zifa u(XI) -ufa see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kufa pa(XVI) -pafa mu(XVIII) -mufa Reflexive -jifa
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -fa- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -faye -fao m-mi(III/IV) -fao -fayo ji-ma(V/VI) -falo -fayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -facho -favyo n(IX/X) -fayo -fazo u(XI) -fao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -fako pa(XVI) -fapo mu(XVIII) -famo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -kufa) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yekufa -okufa m-mi(III/IV) -okufa -yokufa ji-ma(V/VI) -lokufa -yokufa ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chokufa -vyokufa n(IX/X) -yokufa -zokufa u(XI) -okufa see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kokufa pa(XVI) -pokufa mu(XVIII) -mokufa
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -fia
  • Causative: -fisha (“murder”)
  • Passive: -fiwa (“mourn, be bereaved”)

• Nominal derivations:
  • kifa (“death”)
  • mafa (“cemetery”)

• -fu (“dead”)
• kifo (“death”)
• mfu (“dead person”)
• ufu (“death”)

• -ua (“kill”)

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

-fá

1. (intransitive) to die

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

fa (Tifinagh spelling ⴼⴰ)

1. (intransitive) to yawn

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

fa

1. to die

From Italian fa

• IPA^(key): /fa/

fa (definite accusative fayı, plural falar)

2. (music) fa (fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) musical note)
3. F (musical note or key)

Tuvaluan cardinal numbers

<  3	4	5  >
Cardinal : fa

From Proto-Polynesian *fa, from Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

fa

1. four

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

fa

1. to die

fa m (invariable)

1. (music) fa (fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) musical note)
2. F (musical note or key)

fa

1. as, like

fa

1. by (indicating an agent)

fa

1. or

   win edeng fa iunge ― two days or three

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[6], Pacific linguistics

From Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

fa

1. four

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

• IPA^(key): [fá]

-fá

1. (intransitive) to die

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• umfi

• IPA^(key): /fà/

fà

1. (transitive, intransitive) to pull

   mo fa aṣọ ― I pulled the clothes

2. (transitive) to suck
3. (intransitive) to subside, to reduce

   eéwó t'ó wú ti fà ― The boil that was swollen has reduced

4. to draw, to sketch

   ó fa ìlà sórí ìwé ― He drew a line on the piece of paper

5. to become sluggish

   ọ̀lẹ́ fà tìì lẹ́nu iṣẹ́ ― The lazy person was sluggish at work

6. to be elastic, to be mucilaginous (as a soup or stew), to draw

   Synonym: yọ̀

   ọbẹ̀ ewédú náàá fà ― This ewedu soup is mucilaginous

7. (intransitive) to crawl

   bí ìgbín fà, ìkarahun á tẹ̀lé e ― When the snail crawls its shell shall follow it

8. (transitive) to cause, to bring about

   ìyà púpọ̀ ni ó fa ẹkún ― Too much suffering is the cause of weeping

9. (transitive) to long for

   ọkàn àwọn ọmọ́ fà mí ― I longed for those children

• fa before a direct object

Yoruba varieties and languages: fà (“to pull, cause”)
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Language family	Variety group	Variety/language	Subdialect	Location	Words
Proto-Itsekiri-SEY	Southeast Yoruba	Ào		Ìdóàní	fà
		Eastern Àkókó	Ìkàrẹ́	Ìkàrẹ́ Àkókó (Ùkàrẹ́)	fà
		Ìdànrè (Ùdànè, Ùdànrè)		Ìdànrè (Ùdànè, Ùdànrè)	fà
		Ìjẹ̀bú	Ìjẹ̀bú	Ìjẹ̀bú Òde	fà
			Rẹ́mọ	Ẹ̀pẹ́	fà
				Ìkòròdú	fà
				Ṣágámù	fà
		Ìkálẹ̀ (Ùkálẹ̀)		Òkìtìpupa	fà
		Ìlàjẹ (Ùlàjẹ)		Mahin	fà
		Oǹdó		Oǹdó	fà
		Ọ̀wọ̀ (Ọ̀ghọ̀)		Ọ̀wọ̀ (Ọ̀ghọ̀)	fà
		Usẹn		Usẹn	fà
	Ìtsẹkírì			Ìwẹrẹ	fà (to pull), lẹ̀ghẹ̀ (to cause, deceive)
	Olùkùmi			Ugbódù	fà
Proto-Yoruba	Central Yoruba	Èkìtì	Èkìtì	Àdó Èkìtì	fà
			Àkúrẹ́	Àkúrẹ́	fà
			Mọ̀bà	Ọ̀tùn Èkìtì	fà
		Ifẹ̀ (Ufẹ̀)		Ilé Ifẹ̀ (Ulé Ufẹ̀)	fà
		Ìjẹ̀ṣà (Ùjẹ̀ṣà)		Iléṣà (Uléṣà)	fà
		Western Àkókó		Ọ̀gbàgì Àkókó	fà
	Northwest Yoruba	Àwórì		Èbúté Mẹ́tà	fà
		Ẹ̀gbá		Abẹ́òkúta	fà
		Ẹ̀gbádò		Ìjàká	fà
		Èkó		Èkó	fà
		Ìbàdàn		Ìbàdàn	fà
		Ìbàràpá		Igbó Òrà	fà
		Ìbọ̀lọ́		Òṣogbo (Òsogbo)	fà
		Ìgbómìnà		Ìlá Ọ̀ràngún	fà
				Ìfẹ́lódùn LGA	fà
				Ìrẹ́pọ̀dùn LGA	fà
				Ìsin LGA	fà
		Ìlọrin		Ìlọrin	fà
		Oǹkó		Òtù	fà
				Ìwéré Ilé	fà
				Òkèhò	fà
				Ìsẹ́yìn	fà
				Ṣakí	fà
				Tedé	fà
				Ìgbẹ́tì	fà
		Ọ̀yọ́		Ọ̀yọ́	fà
		Standard Yorùbá		Nàìjíríà	fà
				Bɛ̀nɛ̀	fà
	Northeast Yoruba/Okun	Owé		Kabba	fà
	Ede languages/Southwest Yoruba	Ana		Sokode	fà
		Cábɛ̀ɛ́		Cábɛ̀ɛ́ (Ìdàdú)	fà
				Tchaourou	fà
		Ǹcà (Ìcà, Ìncà)		Baàtɛ	fà
		Ìdàácà	Benin	Igbó Ìdàácà (Dasa Zunmɛ̀)	fà
		Ọ̀họ̀rí/Ɔ̀hɔ̀rí-Ìjè	Ọ̀họ̀rí/Ɔ̀hɔ̀rí/Ìjè	Ìkpòbɛ́	fà
				Onigbolo	fà
			Kétu/Ànàgó	Kétu	fà
		Ifɛ̀		Akpáré	fà
				Atakpamɛ	fà
				Boko	fà
				Moretan	fà
				Tchetti (Tsɛti, Cɛti)	fà
		Kura		Aledjo-Koura	fà
				Awotébi	fà
				Partago	fà
		Mɔ̄kɔ́lé		Kandi	fà
		Northern Nago		Kambole	fà
				Manigri	fà
Note: This amalgamation of terms comes from a number of different academic papers focused on the unique varieties and languages spoken in the Yoruboid dialectal continuum which extends from eastern Togo to southern Nigeria. The terms for spoken varieties, now deemed dialects of Yorùbá in Nigeria (i.e. Southeast Yorùbá, Northwest Yorùbá, Central Yorùbá, and Northeast Yorùbá), have converged with those of Standard Yorùbá leading to the creation of what can be labeled Common Yorùbá (Funṣọ Akere, 1977). It can be assumed that the Standard Yorùbá term can also be used in most Nigerian varieties alongside native terms, especially amongst younger speakers. This does not apply to the other Nigerian Yoruboid languages of Ìṣẹkírì and Olùkùmi, nor the Èdè Languages of Benin and Togo.

• IPA^(key): /fá/

fá

1. (transitive) to scrape or wipe off

   alápatàá fá awọ náà ― The butcher wiped off the skin

2. (transitive) to shave

   mo fá irun abíyá ― I shaved my armpit hair

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

IPA^(key): /fá/

-fá

1. (intransitive) to die

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “fa”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “fa (imper. yifa, 6.3)”