See also: fár, får, fær, far-, and Far

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

far (comparative farther or further, superlative farthest or furthest or farthermost or furthermost)

  1. Distant; remote in space.
    He went to a far land.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version), London: [] Robert Barker, [], OCLC 964384981, Joshua 9:6:
      And they went to Ioshua vnto the campe at Gilgal, and said vnto him, and to the men of Israel, Wee be come from a farre countrey: 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 a far cry 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.
    the far future
  3. Long. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
    • 2011, Peggy Woods, Ramblings from a Soul, page 42:
      I have such a long way to go but yet I have come such a far piece already
  4. More remote of two.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
      At the far end 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 the far one.
    He moved to the far end of the state. She remained at this end.
  5. Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.
    They are on the far right on this issue.
    • 2010, William Alexander Patterson, 4th, The City Is served Bartholomew! to the American Prison!, page 118:
      He was withdrawn to such a far degree that it required of Piers and Jude a good deal of occasional conferencing between the two of them, in private.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., page 26:
      As sensible maketh a man differ from a stone, in a far difference; 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, page 1737:
      Is there not a far difference between asking it up and urging it, Mr. Secretary ?
    • 2010, Deborah Cartmell, Screen Adaptations: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, page 78:
      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 a far remove from adaptations that follow.
    • 2014, Henry Sussman, Playful Intelligence: Digitizing Tradition, page 124:
      This may not be at such a far remove from the endlessly recursive textual inventions of Kafka, Beckett, and Bernhard as it may seem.
  7. (programming, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
    far heap; far memory; far pointer
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TranslationsEdit

AdverbEdit

far (comparative farther or further, superlative farthest or furthest)

  1. To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.
    You have all come far and you will go farther.
    He built a time machine and travelled far into the future.
    Over time, his views moved far away from mine.
  2. Very much; by a great amount.
    He was far richer than we'd thought.
    The expense far exceeds what I expected.
    I saw a tiny figure far below me.
    • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC 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 Enrique far too easily before scoring at the near post with a shot Reina should have saved.
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit

far (third-person singular simple present fars, present participle farring, simple past and past participle farred)

  1. (transitive, rare) To send far away.
    • 1864, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis
      But I wish he'd been farred before 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.

Etymology 2Edit

From Latin far. Doublet of farro.

NounEdit

far (uncountable)

  1. Spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta), especially in the context of Roman use of it.
    • 1756, Aurelius Cornelius Celsus, Medicine: In Eight Books, page 108
      A cataplasm made from any meal is heating, whether it be of wheat, or of far, or barley, or bitter vetch, ...
    • 1857, John Marius Wilson, The Rural Cyclopedia:
      Almost all the rustic writers agree in this, that far is most proper for wet clay land, and triticum for dry land. 'In wet red clays,' says Cato, 'sow far; and in dry, clean, and open lands, sow triticum.'
    • 1872, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Brides and Bridals, volume 1, page 201:
      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 of far and mola salsa that was broken over the bride's head, confarreatio was 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, page 32:
      The early Romans broke a cake of far and mola salsa (salted meal) over the bride's head, — a symbol of plentifulness, []
TranslationsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

NounEdit

far (plural fars)

  1. (UK, dialect) A litter of piglets; a farrow.

AnagramsEdit

AlbanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin Pharus.

NounEdit

far m

  1. lighthouse

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin pharus.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

far m (plural fars)

  1. lighthouse
  2. headlight

Related termsEdit

Further readingEdit

CimbrianEdit

NounEdit

far ?

  1. fern

ReferencesEdit

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

DalmatianEdit

VerbEdit

far

  1. Alternative form of facro

DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (father).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

far c (singular definite faren, plural indefinite fædre)

  1. father, dad

InflectionEdit

SynonymsEdit

Related termsEdit

Further readingEdit

EsperantoEdit

EtymologyEdit

Back-formation from fari (to do, to make).

PronunciationEdit

PrepositionEdit

far

  1. (neologism) by[1]
    La libro de Johano far Ŝekspiro
    John's book by Shakespeare
    regado de la popolo, far la popolo, kaj por la popolo
    government of the people, by the people, and for the people
    Synonyms: de, fare de

Usage notesEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Wennergren, Bertilo (2010-03-09), “Neoficialaj rolvortetoj”, in Plena Manlibro de Esperanta Gramatiko[1] (in Esperanto), archived from the original on 2010-09-27, retrieved 2010-10-08

FaroeseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse far.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

far n (genitive singular fars, plural før)

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

DeclensionEdit

Declension of far
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 termsEdit

FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

far m (plural fars)

  1. a traditional Breton cake
    Synonym: far breton

Further readingEdit

HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Uralic *ponče (tail).[1] Older hypotheses have attempted to derive far from Proto-Uralic *pure- (back, rear) or Proto-Finno-Ugric *perä (back, rear).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

far (plural farok)

  1. buttock, posterior
    Synonyms: fenék, ülep, hátsó, segg
  2. stern (ship)
  3. tail, rear (vehicle)

DeclensionEdit

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 forms of far
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 termsEdit

Compound words

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Aikio, Ante (= Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte). “Notes on the development of some consonant clusters in Hungarian”. In: Sampsa Holopainen & Janne Saarikivi (eds.), Περὶ ὀρθότητος ἐτύμων. Uusiutuva uralilainen etymologia, Uralica Helsingiensia 11, 2018, pp. 77–90.

Further readingEdit

  • far in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

IcelandicEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse fǫr (journey).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

far n (genitive singular fars, nominative plural för)

  1. passage, ride
    Má ég fá far?
    Can I get a ride?
  2. imprint, trace
  3. character, personality

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AnagramsEdit

ItalianEdit

VerbEdit

far (apocopated)

  1. Apocopic form of fare

AnagramsEdit

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (spike, prickle) (compare Welsh bara (bread), English barley, Serbo-Croatian brȁšno (flour), Albanian bar (grass), Ancient Greek Φηρῶν (Phērôn, plant deity)).

PronunciationEdit

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.[1]

NounEdit

far n (genitive farris); third declension

  1. farro, a type of hulled wheat. (Most likely emmer (Triticum dicoccum or Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccon) but often mistranslated as spelt (Triticum spelta)) [2] [3]
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.338:
      Ante, deos homini quod conciliare valeret, / far erat et puri lucida mica salis.
      Of old, the means to win the goodwill of the gods were far and sparkling grains of pure salt.
      ― Fay Glinister, “Festus and Ritual Foodstuffs” p. 220
  2. coarse meal; grits

DeclensionEdit

Third-declension noun (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 termsEdit

Related termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • English: far
  • Galician: farelo
  • Italian: farro
  • Portuguese: farelo
  • Sicilian: farru

ReferencesEdit

MalteseEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Arabic فَأْر (faʾr, mouse).

NounEdit

far m (plural firien, feminine fara)

  1. rat
  2. (archaic) mouse
Usage notesEdit
  • Originally, far meant “mouse” and ġurdien meant “rat”. The distinction was then widely lost and both words are attestable in both senses. Today, ġurdien is the predominant word for both species, while far is used chiefly for “rat”, but is less common.

Etymology 2Edit

Root
f-w-r
5 terms

From Arabic فارَ (fāra).

VerbEdit

far (imperfect jfur, verbal noun fawran)

  1. to overflow

Middle EnglishEdit

NounEdit

far

  1. Alternative form of fare

Norwegian BokmålEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (father). Compare longer version fader.

NounEdit

far m (definite singular faren, indefinite plural fedre, definite plural fedrene)

  1. a father
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

far

  1. imperative of fare

Norwegian NynorskEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (father). Compare longer version fader.

NounEdit

far m (definite singular faren, indefinite plural fedrar, definite plural fedrane)

  1. father
InflectionEdit
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Old Norse far, from Proto-Germanic *farą.

NounEdit

far n (definite singular faret, indefinite plural far, definite plural fara)

  1. trace, track
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

VerbEdit

far

  1. imperative of fara

ReferencesEdit

OccitanEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

far m (plural fars)

  1. (nautical) lighthouse

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

far

  1. Alternative form of faire

Old IrishEdit

DeterminerEdit

far

  1. Alternative form of for

Old NorseEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Germanic *farą.

NounEdit

far n (genitive fars, plural fǫr)

  1. a means of passage
  2. passage
  3. trace, print, track
  4. life, conduct, behaviour
  5. state, condition
DeclensionEdit
DescendantsEdit
  • Icelandic: far
  • Faroese: far
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: far
  • Norwegian Bokmål: far

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

far

  1. second-person singular imperative active of fara

ReferencesEdit

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

Old OccitanEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin facere.

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

far

  1. to do
    • c. 1130, Jaufre Rudel, canso:
      Dieus que fetz tot qunt ve ni vai / E formet sest'amor de lonh / Mi don poder [...].
      God, who makes everything that comes or goes and who created this distant love, give me power.

DescendantsEdit

Old SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From (eastern) Old Norse *fāʀ (Old West Norse fær), from Proto-Germanic *fahaz.

NounEdit

fār n

  1. sheep

DeclensionEdit

DescendantsEdit

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin Pharus, French phare.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

far n (plural faruri)

  1. lighthouse
  2. (figuratively) beacon
  3. car headlight

DeclensionEdit

RomanschEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin faciō, facere.

VerbEdit

far

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) to do, make

ConjugationEdit

Scottish GaelicEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Possibly from Middle Irish i mbaile (where) from Old Irish baile (place) (with later early modern forms like a bhail a bhfuil, bhal a bhfuil) or from Old Irish fail (where), perhaps influenced by mar (as, like), related to Irish mar (where).

AdverbEdit

far

  1. where (relative/non-interrogative)
    Bha e cunnartach far an robh am balach ag iasgach.It was dangerous where the boy was fishing.

ReferencesEdit

Etymology 2Edit

PrepositionEdit

far

  1. Alternative form of bhàrr

SpanishEdit

VerbEdit

far (first-person singular present fo, first-person singular preterite fe, past participle fado)

  1. Obsolete spelling of hacer

Further readingEdit

SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Short for fader, from Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (father).

NounEdit

far c

  1. father
DeclensionEdit
Declension of far 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative far fadern fäder fäderna
Genitive fars faderns fäders fädernas
Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

far

  1. imperative of fara.
  2. present tense of fara.

Etymology 3Edit

Short for farled.

NounEdit

far n

  1. (nautical) fairway

AnagramsEdit

TurkishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from French phare.

NounEdit

far (definite accusative farı, plural farlar)

  1. headlight

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from French fard.

NounEdit

far (definite accusative farı, plural farlar)

  1. eye shadow
DeclensionEdit
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
SynonymsEdit

VenetianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin facere.

VerbEdit

far

  1. (transitive) to do, to make; to act, operate
  2. (transitive) to study

VolapükEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

far (nominative plural fars)

  1. lighthouse

DeclensionEdit

See alsoEdit

WestrobothnianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse faðir, feðr, -faðr, -fǫðr, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr.

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /fɑːr/, /faːr/, /fæːr/, /feːr/

NounEdit

far m (definite farin or far’n, vocative fare)

  1. father
    Han fekk säg ä bra tag, då’n einsamen ärvd farin
    He got a good advantage when he alone inherited the father.
    Hä var grannars far’n dill å håll prästa i år men han hadd int’ na dill å påhåll.
    It was the father of the house in the neighbouring farm's turn to be priest-host (during house hearings) this year, but he lacked what was required.
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Etymology 2Edit

From Old Norse for, from Proto-Germanic *furhs.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /fɑːr/, /fɒːr/, /fɔːr/

NounEdit

far f (definite fara, plural fara, definite plural farana)

  1. furrow
Alternative formsEdit
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

NounEdit

far n

  1. Alternative form of fær

Etymology 4Edit

From Old Norse fær, *fāʀ, from Proto-Germanic *fahaz.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [fóːɾ], [fɒ́ːɾ], [fɑ́ːɾ]

NounEdit

far n

  1. sheep.
SynonymsEdit

Etymology 5Edit

VerbEdit

far

  1. Alternative form of fær