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Etymology 1

InheritedfromMiddle Englishferre,fer,Old Englishfeor,feorr,fromProto-Germanic*ferrai.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/fɑː/

  • Audio(UK):

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• (General American)IPA^(key):/fɑɹ/

  • Audio(US):

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• Rhymes:-ɑː(ɹ)

Adjective

far(comparativefartherorfurther,superlativefarthestorfurthestorfarthermostorfurthermost)

1. Distant;remote in space.

   He went to afarland.

   • 1611,The Holy Bible,[…](King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker,[…],→OCLC,Joshua9:6:

     And they went to Ioshua vnto the campe at Gilgal, and said vnto him, and to the men of Israel, Wee be come from afarrecountrey: Now therefore make ye a league with vs.

   • 2009,Graham Huggan, Ian Law,Racism Postcolonialism Europe,page 1:

     Tsiolkas's Europe, as voraciously predatory as his own undead protagonist, is afarcry from the fount of idealistic humanism dreamed up by generations of both pre- and post-Enlightenment politicians and philosophers, a Europe defined by its durable capacity for civility in an otherwise barbarous world.

2. Remote in time.

   thefarfuture

3. Long.(Can we add anexamplefor this sense?)
   • 2011,Peggy Woods,Ramblings from a Soul,page42:

     I have such a long way to go but yet I have come such afarpiece already

4. More remote of two.
   • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell,chapter XIX, inThe Mirror and the Lamp,Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:

     At thefarend of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.

   See those two mountains? The ogre lives on thefarone.

   He moved to thefarend of the state. She remained at this end.

5. Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.

   They are on thefarright on this issue.

   • 2010,William Alexander Patterson, 4th,The City Is served Bartholomew! to the American Prison!,page118:

     He was withdrawn to such afardegree that it required of Piers and Jude a good deal of occasional conferencing between the two of them, in private.

6. Extreme,as a difference in nature or quality.
   • 1657,Henry Ainsworth, Zachary Coke,The Art of Logick.,page26:

     Assensiblemaketh a man differ from a stone, in afardifference; for other Species, as Beasts, have the same difference, but reasonable is the nearest, whereby he differeth from a stone, beasts, and all other things.

   • 1979,United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations,Military situation in the Far East - Volume 3,page1737:

     Is there not afardifference between asking it up and urging it, Mr. Secretary?

   • 2010,Deborah Cartmell,Screen Adaptations: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice,page78:

     The pressbook identifies the film as a 'picturization of Jane Austen's widely read novel' and starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier (based on the theatrical adaptation by Helen Jerome), it is afarremove from adaptations that follow.

   • 2014,Henry Sussman,Playful Intelligence: Digitizing Tradition,page124:

     This may not be at such afarremove from the endlessly recursive textual inventions of Kafka, Beckett, and Bernhard as it may seem.

7. (programming,not comparable)Outside the currently selectedsegmentin a segmentedmemoryarchitecture.

   farheap;farmemory;farpointer

Synonyms

• (remote in space):distant,far;see alsoThesaurus:distant

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of“remote in space”):close,near;see alsoThesaurus:near

Derived terms

• a bridge too far
• afar
• a far remove
• as far as
• as far as I can throw you
• as far as I'm concerned
• as far as one knows
• as far as the eye can see
• as far as the eye could see
• by far
• by far and away
• cast one's net far and wide
• far and away
• far and wide
• faraway
• far away
• far be it
• Far Cotton
• far cry
• far-famed
• far far away
• far-fetched
• far fetched
• far-field
• far-flung
• Far Forest
• far from
• far from it
• far gone
• far-left
• far left
• far-lefter
• far leftist
• far-leftist
• farness
• Far North
• far off
• far-off
• far-out
• far out
• far point
• far post
• far-reaching
• far removed
• far-right
• far right
• far-righter
• far-rightist
• far rightist
• farseeing
• far-seeing
• far sight
• far-sighted
• few and far between
• go far
• go so far as
• go too far
• how far
• if you go far enough left, you get your guns back
• in so far as
• over the hills and far away
• so far
• so far so good
• take too far
• the apple does not fall far from the stem
• the apple does not fall far from the tree
• the apple does not fall far from the trunk
• the apple doesn't fall far from the tree
• the apple never falls far from the tree
• the nut does not fall far from the tree
• thus far
• too far gone
• trust someone as far as one can spit
• trust someone as far as one could fling a bull by the tail
• trust someone as far as one could spit
• trust someone as far as one could throw them

Translations

Seefar/translations § Adjective.

Adverb

far(comparativefartherorfurther,superlativefarthestorfurthest)

1. To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.

   You have all comefarand you will gofurther.

   He built a time machine and travelledfarinto the future.

   Over time, his views movedfaraway from mine.

2. Very much; by a great amount.

   He wasfarricher than we'd thought.

   The expensefarexceeds what I expected.

   I saw a tiny figurefarbelow me.

   • 2012May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”,inBBC Sport:

     The Reds were on the back foot early on when a catalogue of defensive errors led to Ramires giving Chelsea the lead. Jay Spearing conceded possession in midfield and Ramires escaped Jose Enriquefartoo easily before scoring at the near post with a shot Reina should have saved.

Translations

at a great distance

• Abkhaz:хара(xara)
• Bengali:দুরে(dure)
• Even:горла(gorla)
• Evenki:городу(gorodu)
• Finnish:kaukana(fi),etäällä(fi)
• French:loin(fr)
• German:fern(de),entfernt(de),weit(de)
• Hungarian:messze(hu),távol(hu)
• Italian:lontano(it)
• Nanai:горо(goro)
• Romanian:departe(ro)
• Russian:далеко́(ru)(dalekó)
• Spanish:lejos(es)

to, from or over a great distance

• Catalan:enllà(ca),ençà(ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Viễn đích／Viễn đích(zh)(yuǎn de),Viễn ly đích／Viễn ly đích(zh)(yuǎnlí de),Canh viễn đích／Canh viễn đích(zh)(gèngyuǎn de)

• Finnish:kaukana(fi)(adverb),kauas(fi)(adverb; to),kaukaa(fi)(adverb; from);etäällä(fi)(adverb),etäälle(fi)(adverb; to),etäältä(fi)(adverb; from);kaukainen(fi)(adjective),etäinen(fi)(adjective)
• French:loin(fr)
• Hungarian:messze(hu),távol(hu),messzire(hu)
• Latin:longē(la)
• Mòcheno:vèrr
• Norwegian:langt(no)
• Ossetian:дард(dard)
• Russian:далеко́(ru)(dalekó)
• Swedish:långt(sv)

very much; by a large amount—seevery much

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked: "distant in space, time, or degree"

• Arabic:بَعِيداً(ar)(baʕīdan)

  Egyptian Arabic:بعيد(beʕīd)

• Armenian:հեռու(hy)(heṙu)
• Aromanian:diparti,alargu,largu
• Asturian:lloñe(ast),llexos(ast)
• Belarusian:далёка(daljóka)
• Bulgarian:дале́ч(daléč),дале́че(bg)(daléče)
• Catalan:lluny(ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Viễn đích／Viễn đích(zh)(yuǎn de),Viễn ly đích／Viễn ly đích(zh)(yuǎnlí de),Canh viễn đích／Canh viễn đích(zh)(gèngyuǎn de),Cửu viễn／Cửu viễn(zh)(jiǔyuǎn),Cửu(zh)(jiǔ),Cực đoan／Cực đoan(zh)(jíduān),Cực／Cực(zh)(jí)

• Cimbrian:budar
• Czech:daleko(cs)
• Dutch:ver(nl)
• French:loin(fr)
• German:fern(de)
• Hindi:please add this translation if you can
• Irish:i bhfad
• Italian:lontano(it),distante(it)
• Japanese:Viễn く(ja)(tōku)
• Korean:멀리(ko)(meolli)
• Kumyk:узакъ(uzaq),йыракъ(yıraq)
• Latin:procul(la),longē(la)
• Latvian:tālu
• Macedonian:далеку(daleku)
• Navajo:nízah
• Neapolitan:luntano
• Ngazidja Comorian:hule
• Norwegian:langt(no)
• Polish:daleko(pl)
• Portuguese:longe(pt),distante(pt)
• Rapa Nui:kumi
• Romanian:departe(ro)
• Russian:далеко́(ru)(dalekó),далёко(ru)(daljóko)(poetic, popular),дале́че(ru)(daléče)(poetic, popular)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:далеко

  Roman:daleko(sh)

• Slovak:ďaleko
• Slovene:daleč(sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian:daloko

• Spanish:lejos(es)
• Swedish:långt(sv)
• Tetum:dook
• Ukrainian:дале́ко(uk)(daléko)
• Vietnamese:xa(vi)
• Walloon:lon(wa)

Verb

far(third-person singular simple presentfars,present participlefarring,simple past and past participlefarred)

1. (transitive,rare)To send far away.
   • 1864,Elizabeth Gaskell,Cousin Phillis:

     But I wish he'd beenfarredbefore he ever came near this house, with his “Please Betty” this, and “Please Betty” that, and drinking up our new milk as if he'd been a cat. I hate such beguiling ways.

   • 1962,Thomas Berger,Reinhart in Love:

     […] so Joe come to me and he uz sore as a boil and said you goddam prevert, I don't want no twenny-two-year-old mechanic who still pulls his pood in the toilet, andfarredme.

Etymology 2

FromLatinfar.Doublet offarro.

Noun

far(uncountable)

2. Emmer(a type of wheat), especially in the context of Roman use of it.
   • 1756,Aurelius Cornelius Celsus,Medicine: In Eight Books,page108:

     A cataplasm made from any meal is heating, whether it be of wheat, or offar,or barley, or bitter vetch,...

   • 1857,John Marius Wilson,The Rural Cyclopedia:

     Almost all the rustic writers agree in this, thatfaris most proper for wet clay land, and triticum for dry land. 'In wet red clays,' says Cato, 'sowfar;and in dry, clean, and open lands, sow triticum.'

   • 1872,John Cordy Jeaffreson,Brides and Bridals,volume 1, page201:

     Our wedding-cake is the memorial of a practice, that bore a striking resemblance to, if it was not derived from,confarreatio,the form of marriage that had fallen into general disuse amongst the Romans in the time of Tiberius. Taking its name from the cake offarand mola salsa that was broken over the bride's head,confarreatiowas attended with an incident that increases its resemblance to the way in which our ancestors used at their weddings objects symbolical of natural plentifulness.

   • 1919,Carl Holliday,Wedding Customs Then and Now,page32:

     The early Romans broke a cake offarand mola salsa (salted meal) over the bride's head, — a symbol of plentifulness,[…]

Translations

spelt—seespelt

Etymology 3

Noun

far(pluralfars)

1. (UK,dialect)Alitterofpiglets;afarrow.

Anagrams

• 'arf,AFR,AFr.,ARF,Afr.,FRA,Fra,RAF,RFA,arf,fra

Albanian

Etymology

LatinPharus. +

Noun

farm

1. lighthouse

Catalan

Etymology

DerivedfromLatinpharus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic,Valencia)[ˈfar]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes:-aɾ

Noun

farm(pluralfars)

1. lighthouse
2. headlight

Related terms

• farola

Further reading

• “far”inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “far”,inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2024
• “far”inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “far”inDiccionari català-valencià-balear,Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cimbrian

Noun

far?

1. fern

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013)Ünsarne Börtar,Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dalmatian

Verb

far

1. Alternative form offur

Danish

Etymology

InheritedfromOld Norsefaðir,fromProto-Germanic*fadēr,fromProto-Indo-European*ph₂tḗr(“father”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/fɑː/,[fɑ̈ː]
• Rhymes:-aːr

Noun

farc(singular definitefaren,plural indefinitefædre)

1. father,dad

Inflection

Declension offar

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	far	faren	fædre	fædrene
genitive	fars	farens	fædres	fædrenes

Synonyms

• fader

Coordinate terms

• broder
• bror
• datter
• moder
• mor
• søn
• søskende
• søster

Further reading

• “far”inDen Danske Ordbog

Esperanto

Etymology

Back-formationfromfari(“todo,tomake”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):[far]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: far

Preposition

far

1. (neologism)by

   La libro de JohanofarŜekspiro

   John's bookbyShakespeare

   regado de la popolo,farla popolo, kaj por la popolo

   government of the people,bythe people, and for the people

   Synonyms:de,fare de

Usage notes

Unofficial. The most common innovative preposition,faris used for some of the functions of the prepositionde"of, from, by", which some authors feel is overworked. Useful to distinguish, for example, the owner of a book(de)from the author(far).

Faroese

Etymology

InheritedfromOld Norsefar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/fɛaːɹ/,Fugloy dialect:IPA^(key):[fɛːɹ]
• Rhymes:-ɛaːɹ
• Homophone:fær

Noun

farn(genitive singularfars,pluralfør)

1. drive,ride,tour
2. vessel
3. trace,sign

Declension

Declension offar
n5	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	far	farið	før	førini
accusative	far	farið	før	førini
dative	fari	farinum	førum	førunum
genitive	fars	farsins	fara	faranna

Derived terms

• akfar
• áarfar
• áttamannafar
• farmaður
• fingrafar
• fiskifar
• flogfar
• fótafar
• havfar
• hugfar
• keldufar
• orðafar
• rúmdarfar
• sjófar
• tilfar
• tíggjumannafar
• umfar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/faʁ/

far breton aux pruneaux (farbretonwith prunes)

Noun

farm(pluralfars)

1. a traditional Breton cake

   Synonym:far breton

Further reading

• “far”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Hungarian

Etymology

InheritedfromProto-Uralic*ponče(“tail”).Older hypotheses have attempted to derivefarfromProto-Uralic*pure-(“back, rear”)orProto-Finno-Ugric*perä(“back, rear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):[ˈfɒr]
• Rhymes:-ɒr

Noun

far(pluralfarok)

1. buttock,posterior

   Synonyms:fenék,ülep,hátsó,segg

2. stern(ship)
3. tail,rear(vehicle)

Declension

Inflection (stem in-o-,back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	far	farok
accusative	fart	farokat
dative	farnak	faroknak
instrumental	farral	farokkal
causal-final	farért	farokért
translative	farrá	farokká
terminative	farig	farokig
essive-formal	farként	farokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	farban	farokban
superessive	faron	farokon
adessive	farnál	faroknál
illative	farba	farokba
sublative	farra	farokra
allative	farhoz	farokhoz
elative	farból	farokból
delative	farról	farokról
ablative	fartól	faroktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	faré	faroké
non-attributive possessive - plural	faréi	farokéi

Possessive formsoffar
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	farom	faraim
2nd person sing.	farod	faraid
3rd person sing.	fara	farai
1st person plural	farunk	faraink
2nd person plural	farotok	faraitok
3rd person plural	faruk	faraik

Derived terms

• farol
• farú

Compound words

• fardagály
• farfekvés
• farhám
• farhámszíj
• farizom
• farmatring
• farmotor
• farpofa
• farszíj
• fartartás
• farvitorla
• farzseb

Further reading

• farinBárczi, GézaandLászló Országh.A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára( “The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.:ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN

Icelandic

Etymology

InheritedfromOld Norsefǫr(“journey”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/faːr/
• Rhymes:-aːr

Noun

farn(genitive singularfars,nominative pluralför)

1. passage,ride

   Má ég fáfar?

   Can I get aride?

2. imprint,trace
3. character,personality

Synonyms

• flutningur
• merki

Derived terms

• farfugl
• fá far(get a ride, get a lift)
• gera sér far um
• hjakka í sama farinu
• í fari hans
• sækja í sama farið

See also

• skutl
• skutla

Anagrams

• raf

Italian

Verb

far(apocopated)

1. Apocopicform offare

Anagrams

• fra

Latin

Etymology

FromProto-Italic*fars(“flour, grain”),possibly fromProto-Indo-European*bʰars-,fromProto-Indo-European*bʰers-(“spike, prickle”);compareWelshbara(“bread”),Englishbarley,Serbo-Croatianbrȁšno(“flour”),Albanianbar(“grass”),Ancient GreekΦηρῶν(Phērôn,“plant deity”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/far/,[fär]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/far/,[fär]
• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈfar.r/,[ˈfärː](before a vowel)

The nominative-accusative singular form scans as a long syllable in Ovid (cited below). Therefore, some sources mark the vowel in this form as long (fār), but an alternative explanation is that despite being spelled with a single letter r, this word form was pronounced with the underlying geminate /rr/ of the stem when the following word started with a vowel.

Noun

farn(genitivefarris);third declension

1. farro,a type of hulled wheat.(Most likelyemmer(Triticum dicoccumorTriticum turgidumsubsp.dicoccon) but often mistranslated asspelt(Triticum spelta))
   • 8CE,Ovid,Fasti1.338:

     Ante, deos homini quod conciliare valeret, /farerat et puri lucida mica salis.

     Of old, the means to win the goodwill of the gods werefarand sparkling grains of pure salt.

     ― Fay Glinister, “Festus and Ritual Foodstuffs”p. 220
2. coarsemeal;grits

Declension

Third-declensionnoun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	far	farra
Genitive	farris	farrum
Dative	farrī	farribus
Accusative	far	farra
Ablative	farre	farribus
Vocative	far	farra

Derived terms

• confarreō
• diffarreātiō
• farīna
• farrāceus
• farrāgō
• farrārius
• farrātus
• farreārius
• farreātiō
• farreātus
• farreus
• farriculum

Related terms

• confarreātiō
• dēfarrinātus
• farīnāceus
• farīnārium
• farīnārius
• farīnōsus
• farīnula
• farīnulentus

Descendants

• Franco-Provençal:far
• Galician:farelo
• Italian:farro
  • →English:farro
• Portuguese:farelo
• Sicilian:farru
• →English:far

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/faːr/
• Rhymes:-aːr

Etymology 1

InheritedfromArabicفَأْر(faʔr,“mouse”).

Noun

farm(pluralfirienorfariet,femininefara)

1. rat

   Synonym:ġurdien

2. Y-shapedframeof aslingshot

Derived terms

• far il-ġebel
• far tad-djar
• far tal-baħar
• far tal-ilma
• far tal-kampanja

Etymology 2

Root
f-w-r
5 terms

FromArabicفارَ(fāra).

Verb

far(imperfectjfur,verbal nounfawran)

1. tooverflow

Conjugation

Conjugation offar
		singular				plural
		1stperson	2ndperson	3rdperson		1stperson	2ndperson	3rdperson
perfect	m	fort	fort	far		forna	fortu	faru
	f			faret
imperfect	m	nfur	tfur	jfur		nfuru	tfuru	jfuru
	f			tfur
imperative			fur				furu

Middle English

Noun

far

1. Alternative form offare

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

DerivedfromOld Norsefaðir,fromProto-Germanic*fadēr,fromProto-Indo-European*ph₂tḗr(“father”).Compare longer versionfader.

Noun

farm(definite singularfaren,indefinite pluralfedre,definite pluralfedrene)

1. father

Synonyms

• pappa
• fader

Coordinate terms

• broder
• bror
• datter
• mamma
• moder
• mor
• sønn
• søsken
• søster

Derived terms

• bestefar
• farfar
• farmor
• farsfigur
• farskap
• farsside
• gudfar
• morfar
• oldefar
• stamfar
• stefar
• svigerfar

Descendants

• →Kven:faari

Etymology 2

Verb

far

1. imperativeoffare

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/fɑːr/

Etymology 1

InheritedfromOld Norsefaðir,fromProto-Germanic*fadēr,fromProto-Indo-European*ph₂tḗr(“father”).Compare longer versionfader.

Noun

farm(definite singularfaren,indefinite pluralfedrar,definite pluralfedrane)

1. father

Inflection

Historical inflection offar indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural 1901 ein fâr fâren federor fedrar federneorfedrarne(fedrane) 1917 federneor fedrane 1938 ein far faren fedrar fedrane Forms initalicsare currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed underMidlandsnormalen.

Synonyms

• pappa
• fader

Coordinate terms

• bror
• dotter
• mamma
• mor
• son
• sysken
• syster

Derived terms

• aleinefar
• allfar
• bamsefar
• barnefar
• bestefar
• den heilage far
• familiefar
• farbror
• farfar
• farlaus
• farmor
• farsarv
• farsdag
• farsfigur
• farskap
• farsrolle
• farsside
• farsslekt
• farsyster
• farsætt
• fembarnsfar
• firebarnsfar
• forfar
• fosterfar
• gamlefar
• godfar
• gudfar
• husfar
• kyrkjefar
• langgodfar
• litlefar
• medfar
• morfar
• oldefar
• pleiefar
• skriftefar
• stamfar
• stefar
• stykfar
• svigerfar
• tobarnsfar
• trebarnsfar
• vera sonen til far sin
• verfar
• veslefar
• ættfar

Etymology 2

FromOld Norsefar,fromProto-Germanic*farą.

Noun

farn(definite singularfaret,indefinite pluralfar,definite pluralfara)

1. trace,track

Synonyms

• sporn
• laupn

Derived terms

• allfarveg
• bekkefar
• dyrefar
• elvefar
• farkost
• farlei
• farmann
• farsott
• fartøy
• farvatn
• farveg
• fonnefar
• fotefar
• framfar
• gjerefar
• helsefar
• hjulfar
• ifar
• médfar
• mosefar
• omfar
• orkefar
• saumfar
• skifar
• skredfar
• skrufar
• stokkefar
• tilfar
• vassfar

Etymology 3

Verb

far

1. imperativeoffara

References

• “far”inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/fa/

Etymology 1

Noun

farm(pluralfars)

1. (nautical)lighthouse

Etymology 2

Verb

far

1. Alternative form offaire

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/fɑr/

Verb

far

1. singularimperativeoffaran

Old Irish

Determiner

far

1. Alternative form offor

Old Norse

Etymology 1

InheritedfromProto-Norse*ᚠᚨᚱᚨ(*fara),fromProto-Germanic*farą.

Noun

farn(genitivefars,pluralfǫr)

1. a means of passage
2. passage
3. trace,print,track
4. life,conduct,behaviour
5. state,condition

Declension

Declension offar(stronga-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	far	farit	fǫr	fǫrin
accusative	far	farit	fǫr	fǫrin
dative	fari	farinu	fǫrum	fǫrunum
genitive	fars	farsins	fara	faranna

Descendants

• Icelandic:far
• Faroese:far
• Norwegian Nynorsk:far
• Norwegian Bokmål:far

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the correspondinglemmaform.

Verb

far

1. second-personsingularimperativeactiveoffara

References

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910)A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic‎^[2],Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• faire,fare

Etymology

InheritedfromLatinfacere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/far/

Verb

far

1. todo
   • c.1130,Jaufre Rudel,canso:

     Dieus quefetztot qunt ve ni vai / E formet sest'amor de lonh / Mi don poder [...].

     God, whomakeseverything that comes or goes and who created this distant love, give me power.

Descendants

• Occitan:far,fer,faire

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• ᚠᛆᚱ

Etymology

From (eastern)Old Norse*fāʀ(Old West Norsefær), fromProto-Germanic*fahaz.

Noun

fārn

1. sheep

Declension

Declension of fār (stronga-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fār	fārit	fār	fārin
accusative	fār	fārit	fār	fārin
dative	fāri,fāre	fārinu,fāreno	fārum,fārom	fārumin,fāromen
genitive	fārs	fārsins	fāra	fāranna

Descendants

• Swedish:får

Romanian

Etymology

BorrowedfromLatinPharus,Frenchphare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/far/
• Rhymes:-ar

Noun

farn(pluralfaruri)

1. lighthouse
2. (figuratively)beacon
3. carheadlight

Declension

Declension offar

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un)far	farul	(niște)faruri	farurile
genitive/dative	(unui)far	farului	(unor)faruri	farurilor
vocative	farule		farurilor

Romansch

Alternative forms

• fer(Puter)

Etymology

InheritedfromLate Latinfāre.

Verb

far(Rumantsch Grischun,Sursilvan,Sutsilvan,Surmiran,Vallader)

1. todo
2. tomake

Conjugation

Conjugation offar(Sursilvan)

infinitive			far
gerund			fagend
past participle			fatg
	singular			plural
	1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative	jeu	ti	el/ella	nus	vus	els/ellas
present	fetschel	fas	fa	fagein	fageis	fan
imperfect	favel	favas	fava	favan	favas	favan
future	vegnela far	vegnsa far	vegna far	vegnina far	vegnisa far	vegnana far
conditional	jeu	ti	el/ella	nus	vus	els/ellas
direct present	fagess	fagesses	fagess	fagessen	fagesses	fagessen
indirect present	fagessi	fagessies	fagessi	fagessien	fagessies	fagessien
direct future	vegnessa far	vegnessesa far	vegnessa far	vegnessena far	vegnessesa far	vegnessena far
indirect future	vegnessia far	vegnessiesa far	vegnessia far	vegnessiena far	vegnessiesa far	vegnessiena far
subjunctive	che jeu	che ti	ch'el/ch'ella	che nus	che vus	ch'els/ch'ellas
present	fetschi	fetschies	fetschi	fageien	fageies	fetschien
past	fevi	fevies	fevi	fevien	fevies	fevien
future	vegnia far	vegniesa far	vegnia far	vegnîena far	vegnîesa far	vegniena far
imperative	—	ti	—	—	vus	—
		fai			fagei

Conjugation offar(Grischun)

infinitive			far
gerund			faschond
past participle			fatg
	singular			plural
	1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative	jeu	ti	el/ella	nus	vus	els/ellas
present	fatsch	fas	fa	faschain	faschais	fan
imperfect	fascheva	faschevas	fascheva	faschevan	faschevas	faschevan
future	vegnela far	vegnsa far	vegna far	vegnina far	vegnisa far	vegnana far
conditional	jeu	ti	el/ella	nus	vus	els/ellas
present	faschess	faschesses	faschess	faschessen	faschesses	faschessen
future	vegnessa far	vegnessesa far	vegnessa far	vegnessena far	vegnessesa far	vegnessena far
subjunctive	che jeu	che ti	ch'el/ch'ella	che nus	che vus	ch'els/ch'ellas
present	fetschia	fetschias	fetschia	fetschian	fetschias	fetschian
future	vegnia far	vegniesa far	vegnia far	vegnîena far	vegnîesa far	vegniena far
imperative	—	ti	—	—	vus	—
		fa			faschai

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

Possibly fromMiddle Irishi mbaile(“where”)fromOld Irishbaile(“place”)(with later early modern forms likea bhail a bhfuil,bhal a bhfuil) or fromOld Irishfail(“where”),perhaps influenced bymar(“as, like”),related toIrishmar(“where”).

Adverb

far

1. where(relative/non-interrogative)

   Bha e cunnartachfaran robh am balach ag iasgach.―It was dangerouswherethe boy was fishing.

References

• R. A. Breatnach (1973) “The relative adverbmar a”,inCeltica,volume10,pages167–170:“As regards Sc.far a,all I can suggest is that the initialf-is possibly to be referred to the /v-/ variants instanced among the M.Ir. forms ofbaile ilisted above. Butfailmay be a more likely influence;”
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fail”,ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 baile”,ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “?1 bail”,ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Etymology 2

Clippingofdebhàrr

Alternative forms

• bhàrr

Preposition

far(+ genitive)

1. (down)from,off

   thuit efareich―he felloffa horse

Spanish

Verb

far(first-person singular presentfo,first-person singular preteritefe,past participlefado)

1. Obsoletespelling ofhacer.

Further reading

• “far”,inDiccionario de la lengua española[Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition,Royal Spanish Academy,2014 October 16

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/fɑːr/

Etymology 1

Short forfader,fromOld Norsefaðir,fromProto-Germanic*fadēr,fromProto-Indo-European*ph₂tḗr(“father”).

Noun

farc

1. father

Declension

Declension offar

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	far	fars
	definite	fadern	faderns
plural	indefinite	fäder	fäders
	definite	fäderna	fädernas

Derived terms

• farbroder
• farbror
• farfader
• farfar
• farföräldrar
• farmoder
• farmor
• farsa
• farsarv
• farsfigur
• farsgubben
• farsidan
• farsnamn
• faster
• morfar
• styvfar
• svärfar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the correspondinglemmaform.

Verb

far

1. inflection offara:
   1. imperative
   2. presentindicative

Etymology 3

Short forfarled.

Noun

farn

1. (nautical,Finland)Short forfarled.

References

• farinSvensk ordbok(SO)
• farinSvenska Akademiens ordlista(SAOL)
• farinSvenska Akademiens ordbok(SAOB)

Anagrams

• FRA,arf,fra.

Turkish

Etymology 1

BorrowedfromFrenchphare.

Noun

far(definite accusativefarı,pluralfarlar)

1. headlight

Etymology 2

BorrowedfromFrenchfard.

Noun

far(definite accusativefarı,pluralfarlar)

1. eye shadow

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	far
Definite accusative	farı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	far	farlar
Definite accusative	farı	farları
Dative	fara	farlara
Locative	farda	farlarda
Ablative	fardan	farlardan
Genitive	farın	farların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular farım farlarım 2nd singular farın farların 3rd singular farı farları 1st plural farımız farlarımız 2nd plural farınız farlarınız 3rd plural farları farları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular farımı farlarımı 2nd singular farını farlarını 3rd singular farını farlarını 1st plural farımızı farlarımızı 2nd plural farınızı farlarınızı 3rd plural farlarını farlarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular farıma farlarıma 2nd singular farına farlarına 3rd singular farına farlarına 1st plural farımıza farlarımıza 2nd plural farınıza farlarınıza 3rd plural farlarına farlarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular farımda farlarımda 2nd singular farında farlarında 3rd singular farında farlarında 1st plural farımızda farlarımızda 2nd plural farınızda farlarınızda 3rd plural farlarında farlarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular farımdan farlarımdan 2nd singular farından farlarından 3rd singular farından farlarından 1st plural farımızdan farlarımızdan 2nd plural farınızdan farlarınızdan 3rd plural farlarından farlarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular farımın farlarımın 2nd singular farının farlarının 3rd singular farının farlarının 1st plural farımızın farlarımızın 2nd plural farınızın farlarınızın 3rd plural farlarının farlarının

Synonyms

• (eye shadow):göz farı

Venetan

Etymology

InheritedfromLate Latinfāre.

Verb

far

1. (transitive)todo,tomake;toact,operate
2. (transitive)tostudy

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):[faɾ]

Noun

far(nominative pluralfars)

1. lighthouse

Declension

declension offar

	singular	plural
nominative	far	fars
genitive	fara	faras
dative	fare	fares
accusative	fari	faris
vocative1	ofar!	ofars!
predicative2	faru	farus

• ¹status as a case is disputed
• ²in later, non-classical Volapük only

See also

• laramamalet
• lefilamalet
• malet
• maletadomil
• maletahorn
• maletam
• maletamöp
• tüm