fax

See also:Faxand℻

Translingual

Symbol

fax

1. (international standards)ISO 639-3language codeforFala.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Fala terms

English

Pronunciation

• enPR:făks,IPA^(key):/fæks/

• Audio(US):

  (file)

• Homophone:facts(informal US and Canada pronunciation)
• Rhymes:-æks

Etymology 1

FromMiddle Englishfax,fromOld Englishfeax(“hair, head of hair”),fromProto-West Germanic*fahs,fromProto-Germanic*fahsą(“hair, mane”),fromProto-Indo-European*poḱsom(“hair”,literally“that which is combed, shorn, or plucked”),fromProto-Indo-European*peḱ-(“to comb, shear, pluck”).Cognate withDutchvas(“headhair”),GermanFachs(“head-hair”),Norwegianfaks(“mane”),Icelandicfax(“mane”),Sanskritपक्ष्मन्(pákṣman,“eyelash, hair, filament”).

Noun

fax(usuallyuncountable,pluralfaxes)

1. (obsoleteorUKdialectal)Thehairof thehead.

Derived terms

• faxed
• Fairfax
• Halifax

Etymology 2

Clippingoffacsimile,first attested 1979.

Noun

fax(pluralfaxesor(rare)faxxes)

2. Ellipsisoffax machine:thedeviceforfa xing;themediumof communication that it provides.

   OK, now take it down the hall to thefax.

   You can send it via email orfax.You can use an onlinefaxservice where you upload a PDF and then send it to afaxnumber.

3. Adocumentsent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.

Derived terms

• black fax
• e-fax
• fax bomb
• fax modem
• fax number

Descendants

• →Japanese:ファックス

Translations

machine for sending or receiving documents telephonicly—seefax machine

document transmitted by telephone

• Albanian:faks(sq)m
• Alemannic German:fax
• Arabic:فَاكْسm(fāks)
• Armenian:ֆաքս(hy)(fakʻs),հեռապատճեն(hy)(heṙapatčen)
• Azerbaijani:faks
• Belarusian:факсm(faks)
• Bengali:ফ্যাক্স(bn)(phêkśo)
• Bulgarian:факсm(faks)
• Burmese:ပုံတူညီသော(pumtu-nyisau:),ဖက်စ်(hpakc)
• Catalan:fax(ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Vẽ truyền thần／Vẽ truyền thần(zh)(chuánzhēn)

• Czech:fax(cs)m
• Danish:fax(da)c,telefaxc
• Dutch:fax(nl)m
• Estonian:faks
• Finnish:faksi(fi)
• French:fax(fr)m,télécopie(fr)f
• Galician:faxm
• Georgian:ფაქსი(paksi)
• German:Fax(de)n
• Greek:φαξ(el)n(fax)
• Hebrew:פַקְס(he)m(faks)
• Hindi:फ़ैक्सm(faiks),फैक्सm(phaiks)
• Hungarian:fax(hu)
• Icelandic:fax(is)n,símbréfn
• Ido:faxuro(io)
• Indonesian:faks(id)
• Italian:fax(it)m,telefax(it)m,telecopiaf,telecopiaturaf
• Japanese:ファックス(ja)(fakkusu),ファクシミリ(ja)(fakushimiri)
• Karelian:faksu
• Kazakh:факс(faks)
• Khmer:ទូរសារ(tuu saa)
• Korean:팩스(ko)(paekseu),팩시밀리(ko)(paeksimilli)
• Kyrgyz:факс(faks)
• Lao:ການຄັດສຳເນົາ(kān khat sam nao),ແພັກ(phæk)
• Latin:facsimilism
• Latvian:fakssm,faksimilsm
• Lithuanian:faksasm
• Luxembourgish:fax
• Macedonian:факсm(faks)
• Malay:faks(ms)
• Mongolian:факс(mn)(faks)
• Norman:faxm(Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:faksm,telefaksm

  Nynorsk:faksm,telefaksm

• Persian:دورنگار(phát)(dornegâr),فاکس(phát)(fâks)
• Polish:fax(pl)m,faks(pl)m,telefaks(pl)m,telefax(pl)m
• Portuguese:fax(pt)
• Romanian:faxn
• Russian:факс(ru)m(faks),факси́миле(ru)n(faksímile),телефа́кс(ru)m(telefáks)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:факсm

  Roman:faxm,faks(sh)m

• Slovak:fax(sk)m
• Slovene:faxm
• Spanish:fax(es)m,telefaxm,telefacsímilm
• Swahili:faksi(sw)
• Swedish:fax(sv)c,telefax(sv)c
• Tajik:факс(faks)
• Thai:แฟกซ์(th)(fɛ̀k),แฟ็กซ์(th)(fɛ̀k),โทรสาร(th)(too-rá-sǎan)
• Turkish:faks(tr)
• Turkmen:faks
• Ukrainian:факсm(faks)
• Urdu:نسخۂ کامل,فاکس(fāks)
• Uzbek:faks(uz)
• Venda:fekisi
• Vietnamese:fax(vi),điện thư
• Yiddish:פֿאַקס(faks)

Verb

fax(third-person singular simple presentfaxesor(rare)faxxes,present participlefa xingor(rare)fax xing,simple past and past participlefaxedor(rare)faxxed)

1. To send a document via afax machine.
   • 1990,Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine,volume14,page82:

     Hands trembling with excitement and impatience, Ifaxxedmy credit history to Jerry Raskin, the real estate agent listed, and received an appointment to view the place.

   • 1991,Jury Verdicts Weekly,volume35,page10:

     Plaintiff contented that in a game show in London, England, in January of 1988, Mr. Steinberg entered into an oral agreement with Atari representatives to become the exclusive distributor of Atari Games’ products; that the proposed agreement was dictated at this meeting; and that within two days Mr. Steinberg sent defendant afaxxedconfirmation of this oral arrangement reached at the London trade show.

   • 1992,Montana National Forest Management Act of 1991: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks and Forests of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session on S. 1696; October 22, 1991,Washington:United States Government Publishing Office,→ISBN,pages140–141:

     SENATOR BAUCUS, IT IS THE THIRD STATEMENT, YOUR CHALLENGE, THAT HAS LED TO THE MOST FRUSTRATION FOR THE PEOPLE I AM REPRESENTING TODAY. WE TOOK YOU AT YOUR WORD AND HAVE RALLIED AND CONVOYED TO MAKE YOU AWARE OF US, TELEPHONED, WRITTEN LETTERS,FAXXEDYOU, AND SPOKE WITH YOU PERSONALLY TO LET YOU KNOW HOW WE FEEL.

   • 1993,H. Bruce Franklin,M.I.A., or, Mythmaking in America,revised and expanded paperback edition, New Brunswick, New Jersey:Rutgers University Press,→ISBN,page194:

     A few of the corporations involved have frankly acknowledged the roadblock: their own fear of the POW/MIA movement. Some companies scheduled for a trade mission to Vietnam dropped out after receiving afaxxedmessage from the National P.O.W. Strike Force summed up by its leader: “We will go out of our way to destroy your company because you want to do business with filthy Communists who are holding American prisoners.”

   • 1993,Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence,Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence,→ISBN,page737,column 1:

     Thanks to Franz Amador and Tony Barrett for helpful discussions. We gratefully acknowledge Oren Etzioni’s emergencyfax xingservice. This research was funded in part by National Science Foundation Grant IRI-8957302, Office of Naval Research Grant 90-J-1904, and a grant from the Xerox corporation.

   • 1994,Olga Elena Mattei,“Part One: Poetry[§]The Angel of the Millennium (Accident at the Nuclear Plant)”, inRoberta Fernández,editor,In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States,Houston, Texas:Arte Público Press,→ISBN,page139:

     His logistic: to dress in the skin of the worker, / the technician, the programmer, / infiltrating himself in their milieu, / their offices, their plants, & their boards, / a bug in their systems, / crossing up the controls and the panels, / the wiring, the wave lengths, / thefax xingof messages, the spy-satellites / & their receptors, / changing their conceptions, their charts.

   • 1995,Lucha Corpi,Cactus Blood: A Mystery Novel,Houston, Texas:Arte Público Press,→ISBN,page151:

     He already has the copy of the other fingerprints that Leofaxxedto him for comparison.

   • 1995May 17, Ken Luongo, “Comments on GAO Report on CTR Program Concerning MPCA (note to Ken Sanders)”, inWeapons of Mass Destruction: Reducing the Threat From the Former Soviet Union: An Update (United States General Accounting Office, Report to Congressional Requesters),publishedJune 1995,“Background”, page76:

     On May 12, 1995, Julie Hirshen (GAO)faxxeda draft portion of the GAO Cooperative Threat Reduction report dealing with MPCA.

   • 1996,Middle East Peace Process: Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session; September 20, 1995,Washington:United States Government Publishing Office,→ISBN,page25:

     [162] /Fax xingfrom Israel / 03-695-0132 / [163] / Calling from abroad / 972-3-695-6868 /Fax xingfrom abroad / 972-3-695-0132

   • 1997May 18, Mike Story, “Confirmed....Pilot Modem Has FAX capability!!”, inalt p.sys.palmtops.pilot(Usenet):

     Please advise how onefaxxesfrom the Pilot Pro.Fax xingwould greatly enhance my use of the Pilot. / Thanks!

   • 1999,Appendix E: Response to Public Comments: Final Environmental Impact Statement For Open Road and Open Motorized Trail Analysis (Motorized Road and Trail Travel Plan):

     Please have Georgia Dixon of Sen Craig’s office have a current copy of the Canadian Endangered Species listfaxxedto her from Ottawa, Canada.

Translations

send document

• Arabic:أَرْسَلَ فَاكْس(ʔarsala faks)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Phát vẽ truyền thần／Phát vẽ truyền thần(fā chuánzhēn)

• Czech:faxovat
• Danish:faxe
• Dutch:faxen(nl)
• Finnish:faksata(fi)
• French:faxer(fr),oïn
• German:faxen(de),fernkopieren
• Greek:τηλεομοιοτυπώ(el)(tileomoiotypó),στέλνω φαξ(stélno fax)
• Icelandic:faxa
• Ido:faxar(io)
• Italian:faxare(it),telecopiare
• Japanese:ファクスを đưa る(fakkusu-o okuru)
• Mongolian:факсдах(mn)(faksdax)
• Norman:faxer
• Persian:دورنگاریدن(dôrnegâridan),فکس کردن(faks kardan)
• Polish:faksować(pl),przefaksować
• Portuguese:mandar/enviarporfax
• Russian:посыла́ть факс(posylátʹ faks),передава́ть факс(peredavátʹ faks)
• Spanish:faxear(es)
• Swedish:faxa(sv)

Etymology 3

Formed with-xfromfacts;the pronunciation offactsandfaxis identical in certain varieties of English.

Noun

faxpl(plural only)

1. (informal)Nonstandardform offacts.

   Synonym:trufax

Interjection

fax

1. (informal)Alternative form offacts(“used to express agreement”).

   Synonyms:fax, no printer;trufax;tru dat;true dat;true that

See also

• 📠

Chinese

Etymology

FromEnglishfax.

Pronunciation 1

• Cantonese(Jyutping):fek¹si²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese,Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping:fek¹si²
    • Yale:fēk sí
    • Cantonese Pinyin:fek⁷si²
    • Guangdong Romanization:fég¹xi²
    • SinologicalIPA^(key):/fɛːk̚⁵ siː³⁵/

Noun

fax

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese)fax(document)(Classifier:Trương／Trươngc;Phânc)

   faxCơ／faxCơ[Cantonese]―fek¹si²gei¹[Jyutping]― fax machine

Pronunciation 2

• Cantonese(Jyutping):fek¹si²/ fek¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese,Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping:fek¹si²/ fek¹
    • Yale:fēk sí / fēk
    • Cantonese Pinyin:fek⁷si²/ fek⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization:fég¹xi²/ fég¹
    • SinologicalIPA^(key):/fɛːk̚⁵ siː³⁵/, /fɛːk̚⁵/

Verb

fax

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese)tofax

References

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

Czech

Noun

faxminan

1. fax(document)
2. fax,fax machine

Declension

Declension offax(hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	fax	faxy
genitive	faxu	faxů
dative	faxu	faxům
accusative	fax	faxy
vocative	faxe	faxy
locative	faxu	faxech
instrumental	faxem	faxy

Related terms

• faxovat

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/fɑks/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation:fax
• Rhymes:-ɑks

Etymology 1

Borrowed fromEnglishfax(“a fax machine; to fax”).

Noun

faxm(pluralfaxen,diminutivefaxjen)

1. fax

Synonyms

• telefacsimile
• telefax

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the correspondinglemmaform.

Verb

fax

1. inflection offaxen:
   1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. (in case ofinversion)second-personsingularpresentindicative
   3. imperative

French

Etymology

BorrowedfromEnglishfax.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/faks/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

faxm(pluralfax)

1. fax

   Synonym:télécopie

2. fax machine

   Synonyms:télécopieur,télécopieuse

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

fax

1. singularimperativeoffaxen

Hungarian

Etymology

FromEnglish(tele)fax,fromfacsimile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):[ˈfɒks]
• Rhymes:-ɒks

Noun

fax(countableanduncountable,pluralfaxok)

1. (historical)the procedure offa xing(sending a document via a fax machine)
2. (historical)fax,ellipsisoffaxkészülék(“fax machine”)
3. (historical)ellipsisoffaxüzenet(“faxmessage/document”)
4. (historical)ellipsisoffaxszám(“fax number”)

Declension

Inflection (stem in-o-,back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	fax	faxok
accusative	faxot	faxokat
dative	faxnak	faxoknak
instrumental	faxszal	faxokkal
causal-final	faxért	faxokért
translative	faxszá	faxokká
terminative	faxig	faxokig
essive-formal	faxként	faxokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	faxban	faxokban
superessive	faxon	faxokon
adessive	faxnál	faxoknál
illative	faxba	faxokba
sublative	faxra	faxokra
allative	faxhoz	faxokhoz
elative	faxból	faxokból
delative	faxról	faxokról
ablative	faxtól	faxoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	faxé	faxoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	faxéi	faxokéi

Possessive formsoffax
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	faxom	faxaim
2nd person sing.	faxod	faxaid
3rd person sing.	faxa	faxai
1st person plural	faxunk	faxaink
2nd person plural	faxotok	faxaitok
3rd person plural	faxuk	faxaik

Derived terms

• faxol→elfaxol

Compound words

• faxberendezés
• faxgép
• faxkezelő
• faxkészülék
• faxpapír
• faxszám
• faxszolgáltatás
• faxüzenet
• faxváltás
• körfax

Further reading

• faxinNóra Ittzés, editor,A magyar nyelv nagyszótára[A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó,2006–2031(work in progress; publisheda–ezas of 2024).

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/faxs/
• IPA^(key):/faks/

Etymology 1

FromOld Norsefax(“mane”).

Noun

faxn(genitive singularfax,nominative pluralföx)

1. mane(of a horse)

See also

• makki

Etymology 2

FromEnglishfax,fromfacsimile,fromLatin.

Noun

faxn(genitive singularfax,nominative pluralföx)

1. fax,telefax(document sent electronically and printed with a fax machine)

   Synonym:símbréf

2. fax machine

   Synonyms:faxtæki,bréfsími

Latin

Etymology

FromProto-Indo-European*ǵʰweh₂k-(“to shine”).Cognate withfacētus,Lithuanianžvakė(“candle”).Compare alsoEtruscan𐌚𐌀𐌂𐌄(face,“torch (?)”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/faks/,[fäks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/faks/,[fäks]

Noun

faxf(genitivefacis);third declension

1. torch,firebrand
2. fireball,comet
3. causeofruin,incitement

Declension

Third-declensionnoun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fax	facēs
Genitive	facis	facum
Dative	facī	facibus
Accusative	facem	facēs
Ablative	face	facibus
Vocative	fax	facēs

Derived terms

• facula

See also

• torris
• titio

References

• “fax”,inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary,Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fax”,inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary,New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fax”,inGeir T. Zoëga (1910)A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic,Oxford: Clarendon Press
• faxin Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis(augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• faxinGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français,Hachette.
• “fax”,inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities,New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fax”,inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities,London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Pokorny, Julius(1959)Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch[Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag,page495

Middle English

Alternative forms

• væx(early)

Etymology

FromOld Englishfeax,fromProto-West Germanic*fahs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/faks/

Noun

fax(pluralfaxes)

1. Thehairof thehead.

Derived terms

• faxwax

Descendants

• English:fax(obsolete)
• Scots:fax

References

• “fax,n.”,inMED Online,Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed fromEnglishfax.

Noun

faxm(pluralfax)

1. (Jersey)fax

Old Norse

Etymology

FromProto-Germanic*fahsą,from*peḱ-(“to pluck”).

Noun

faxn

1. amane

Declension

Declension offax(stronga-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fax	faxit	fǫx	fǫxin
accusative	fax	faxit	fǫx	fǫxin
dative	faxi	faxinu	fǫxum	fǫxunum
genitive	fax	faxins	faxa	faxanna

Descendants

• Icelandic:fax
• Faroese:faks
• Norwegian:faks
• →Scots:fax(foam-topped wave, swell)

References

• “fax”,inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary,Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fax”,inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary,New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fax”,inGeir T. Zoëga (1910)A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic,Oxford: Clarendon Press
• faxin Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis(augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fax”,inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities,New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fax”,inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities,London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowingfromEnglishfax.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈfaks/
• Rhymes:-aks
• Syllabification:fax

Noun

faxminan

1. (telephony)Alternative spelling offaks

   Synonym:telefax

Declension

Declension offax

	singular	plural
nominative	fax	faksy
genitive	faksu	faksów
dative	faksowi	faksom
accusative	fax	faksy
instrumental	faksem	faksami
locative	faksie	faksach
vocative	faksie	faksy

Further reading

• faxinWielki słownik języka polskiego,Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• faxin Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil)IPA^(key):/ˈfaks/

• (Portugal)IPA^(key):/ˈfaks/

Noun

faxm(pluralfaxes)

1. fax(document transmitted by telephone)

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowingfromEnglishfax.

Noun

faxn(pluralfaxuri)

1. fax

Declension

Declension offax

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un)fax	faxul	(niște)faxuri	faxurile
genitive/dative	(unui)fax	faxului	(unor)faxuri	faxurilor
vocative	faxule		faxurilor

Spanish

Etymology

BorrowedfromEnglishfax.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈfaɡs/[ˈfaɣ̞s]
• Rhymes:-aɡs
• Syllabification:fax

Noun

faxm(plural#)

1. fax

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• xfa

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Homophone:facks

Noun

faxcorn

1. afax(machine)c
2. a fax(document)n

Declension

Declension offax1

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	fax	fax
	definite	faxen	faxens
plural	indefinite	faxar	faxars
	definite	faxarna	faxarnas

Declension offax

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	fax	fax
	definite	faxet	faxets
plural	indefinite	fax	fax
	definite	faxen	faxens

Synonyms

• telefax

Related terms

• faksimil
• faxa
• faxmeddelande
• faxnummer
• faxsignal
• faxsändning

References

• faxinSvenska Akademiens ordlista(SAOL)

Zhuang

Etymology

FromProto-Tai*vaːꟲ(“sky; weather”).Cognate withThaiฟ้า(fáa),Northern Thaiᨼ᩶ᩣ,Laoຟ້າ(fā),Lüᦝᦱᧉ(faa²),Shanၽႃႉ(phâ̰a)orၾႃႉ(fâ̰a),Ahom𑜇𑜠(pha),𑜇𑜡(phā),𑜇𑜨𑜠(phoa),𑜇𑜨𑜡(phoā)or𑜇𑜞𑜠(phra).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang)IPA^(key):/fa˦˨/
• Tone numbers: fa⁴
• Hyphenation: fax

Noun

fax(Sawndip forms𭱇or𫯨or𪥉,1957–1982 spellingfaч)

1. (dialectal,including Longzhou)sky

   Synonym:mbwn