far

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

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Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (UK):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /fɑɹ/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /fɐː/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /faː/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /faɹ/
• (India) IPA^(key): /faːʳ/
• (Dublin) IPA^(key): /fæːɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: far

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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

2. Distant; remote in space.

   He went to a far land.

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

3. Remote in time.

   the far far future

4. 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

5. 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:

     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.

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     He was withdrawn to such a far degree that it required of Piers and Jude a good deal of occasional conferencing between the two of them, in private.

7. 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.

8. (programming, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.

   far heap; far memory; far pointer

Usage notes

Comparable senses often repeat the adjective to intensify the meaning rather than using very as most other adjectives do. For example, one may speak of the  far far future rather than the  very far future.

Synonyms

• (remote in space): distant; see also Thesaurus:distant

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “remote in space”): close, near; see also Thesaurus: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
• farfetch
• far-fetched
• far fetched
• far-field
• far field
• far-flung
• Far Forest
• far from
• far from it
• fargoing
• far gone
• far-left
• far left
• far-lefter
• far leftist
• far-leftist
• farmost
• farness
• Far North
• far-off
• far off
• far-out
• far out
• far point
• far post
• far-reaching
• farreaching
• far removed
• far-right
• far right
• far-righter
• far rightist
• far-rightist
• Far Sawrey
• farsee
• far-seeing
• farseeing
• farseer
• farsight
• far sight
• far-sighted
• farsighted
• farspeak
• farstretched
• far turn
• few and far between
• go far
• go so far as
• go too far
• how far
• howsofar
• if you go far enough left, you get your guns back
• in so far as
• overfar
• over the hills and far away
• so far
• so far as
• 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

See far/translations § Adjective.

Adverb

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 further.

   He built a time machine and travelled far into the future.

   Over time, his views moved far away from mine.

   You've gone far enough. Actually, a bit too far.

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.

Usage notes

As with the adjective, the adverb sense is often repeated for intensive meaning. A foul-tasting drink may be  far far worse than what one expected.

Translations

at a great distance

• Abkhaz: хара (xara)
• Bengali: দুরে (dure)
• Czech: daleko (cs)
• Esperanto: malproksima
• 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: 遠的 / 远的 (zh) (yuǎn de), 遠離的 / 远离的 (zh) (yuǎnlí de), 更遠的 / 更远的 (zh) (gèngyuǎn de)

• Czech: daleko (cs), zdaleka (cs)
• 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)
• Khiamniungan Naga: úilē
• Latin: longē (la)
• Mòcheno: vèrr
• Norwegian: langt (no)
• Ossetian: дард (dard)
• Russian: далеко́ (ru) (dalekó)
• Swedish: långt (sv)

very much; by a large amount — see very much

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary: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: 遠的 / 远的 (zh) (yuǎn de), 遠離的 / 远离的 (zh) (yuǎnlí de), 更遠的 / 更远的 (zh) (gèngyuǎn de), 久遠 / 久远 (zh) (jiǔyuǎn), 久 (zh) (jiǔ), 極端 / 极端 (zh) (jíduān), 極 / 极 (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: 遠く (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 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.

   • 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, and farred me.

Etymology 2

From Latin far. Doublet of farro.

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, 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, […]

Translations

spelt — see spelt

Etymology 3

Noun

far (plural fars)

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

Anagrams

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

Albanian

Etymology

Latin Pharus. +

Noun

far m

1. lighthouse

Catalan

Etymology

Derived from Latin pharus.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aɾ

Noun

far m (plural fars)

1. lighthouse
2. headlight

Related terms

• farola

Further reading

• “far” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “far”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “far” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “far” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Champenois

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ferrum.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /far/

Noun

far m (plural fars)

1. (Troyen, Rémois) iron

References

• Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[2] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[3] (in French), Troyes

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 of fur

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

far c (singular definite faren, plural indefinite fædre)

1. father, dad

Inflection

Declension of far

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” in Den Danske Ordbog

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /far/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ar
• Hyphenation: far

Preposition

far

1. (neologism) by

   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 notes

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).

Faroese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse far.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

far n (genitive singular fars, plural før)

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

Declension

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 (far breton with prunes)

Noun

far m (plural fars)

1. a traditional Breton cake

   Synonym: far breton

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese far, derived from Latin fāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɾ/ [ˈfaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: far

Verb

far (first-person singular present fo, first-person singular preterite fei, past participle fado)
far (first-person singular present fo, first-person singular preterite fei, past participle fado, reintegrationist norm)

1. Obsolete form of facer.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of far

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti)	Third-person (el / ela / Vde.)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal	far
Personal	far	fares	far	farmos	fardes	faren
Gerund
	fando
Past participle
Masculine	fado			fados
Feminine	fada			fadas
Indicative
Present	fo	fas	fa	famos	fades	fan
Imperfect	faba	fabas	faba	fabamos	fabades	faban
Preterite	fei	faches	fou	famos	fastes	faron
Pluperfect	fara	faras	fara	faramos	farades	faran
Future	farei	farás	fará	faremos	faredes	farán
Conditional	faría	farías	faría	fariamos	fariades	farían
Subjunctive
Present	fe	fes	fe	femos	fedes	fen
Imperfect	fase	fases	fase	fásemos	fásedes	fasen
Future	far	fares	far	farmos	fardes	faren
Imperative
Affirmative		fa	fe	femos	fade	fen
Negative (non)		non fes	non fe	non femos	non fedes	non fen

    Reintegrated conjugation of far (See Appendix:Reintegrationism)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti / tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	far
Personal	far	fares	far	farmos	fardes	farem
Gerund
	fando
Past participle
Masculine	fado			fados
Feminine	fada			fadas
Indicative
Present	fo	fas	fa	famos	fades, fais	fam
Imperfect	fava	favas	fava	fávamos	fávades, fáveis, fávais1	favam
Preterite	fei	faste, fache1	fou	famos	fastes	fárom, faram
Pluperfect	fara	faras	fara	fáramos	fárades, fáreis, fárais1	faram
Future	farei	farás	fará	faremos	faredes, fareis	farám, farão
Conditional	faria	farias	faria	faríamos	faríades, faríeis, faríais1	fariam
Subjunctive
Present	fe	fes	fe	femos	fedes, feis	fem
Imperfect	fasse	fasses	fasse	fássemos	fássedes, fásseis	fassem
Future	far	fares	far	farmos	fardes	farem
Imperative
Affirmative		fa	fe	femos	fade, fai	fem
Negative (nom)		nom fes	nom fe	nom femos	nom fedes, nom feis	nom fem

¹Less recommended.

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “far”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Hungarian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Uralic *ponče (“tail”). Older hypotheses have attempted to derive far from Proto-Uralic *pure- (“back, rear”) or Proto-Finno-Ugric *perä (“back, rear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒr]
• Rhymes: -ɒr

Noun

far (plural farok)

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 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 terms

• farol
• farú

Compound words

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

Further reading

• far 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.

Icelandic

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse fǫr (“journey”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faːr/
• Rhymes: -aːr

Noun

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

Declension

Declension of far (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	far	farið	för	förin
accusative	far	farið	för	förin
dative	fari	farinu	förum	förunum
genitive	fars	farsins	fara	faranna

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. Apocopic form of fare

Anagrams

• fra

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fars (“flour, grain”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰars-, 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”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfar/, [ˈfär]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfar/, [ˈfär]
• (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

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))
   • 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

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	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

Inherited from Arabic فَأْر (faʔr, “mouse”).

Noun

far m (plural firien or fariet, feminine fara)

1. rat

   Synonym: ġurdien

2. Y-shaped frame of a slingshot

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

From Arabic فارَ (fāra).

Verb

far (imperfect jfur, verbal noun fawran)

1. to overflow

Conjugation

Conjugation of far

positive forms
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
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 of fare

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

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. imperative of fare

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑːr/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

1. father

Inflection

Historical inflection of far

		singular		plural
		indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
1901		ein fâr	fâren	feder or fedrar	federne or fedrarne (fedrane)
1917					federne or fedrane
1938		ein far	faren	fedrar	fedrane

• Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard.
• Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier.
• Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen.

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

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

Noun

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

1. trace, track

Synonyms

• spor n
• laup n

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. imperative of fara

References

• “far” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa/

Etymology 1

Noun

far m (plural fars)

1. (nautical) lighthouse

Etymology 2

Verb

far

1. Alternative form of faire

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑr/

Verb

far

1. singular imperative of faran

Old Irish

Determiner

far

1. Alternative form of for

Old Norse

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Norse *ᚠᚨᚱᚨ (*fara), from Proto-Germanic *farą.

Noun

far n (genitive fars, plural fǫr)

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

Declension

Declension of far (strong a-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 corresponding lemma form.

Verb

far

1. second-person singular imperative active of fara

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc%3DPerseus:text:2003.02.0002:entry%3Dfar”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• faire, fare

Etymology

Inherited from Latin facere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /far/

Verb

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.

Descendants

• Occitan: far, fer, faire

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• ᚠᛆᚱ

Etymology

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

Noun

fār n

1. sheep

Declension

Declension of fār (strong a-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

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese far, derived from Latin fāre.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfa(ʁ)/ [ˈfa(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfa(ʁ)/ [ˈfa(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈfa(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈfa(ʁ)/ [ˈfa(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfa(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: far

Verb

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

1. Obsolete form of fazer.

Usage notes

See Appendix:Portuguese verbs.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of far (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	far
Personal	far	fares	far	farmos	fardes	farem
Gerund
	fando
Past participle
Masculine	fado			fados
Feminine	fada			fadas
Indicative
Present	fo	fas	fa	famos	fais	fam
Imperfect	fava	favas	fava	fávamos	fáveis	favam
Preterite	fei	faste	fou	famos1, fámos2	fastes	faram
Pluperfect	fara	faras	fara	fáramos	fáreis	faram
Future	farei	farás	fará	faremos	fareis	farão
Conditional	faria	farias	faria	faríamos	faríeis	fariam
Subjunctive
Present	fe	fes	fe	femos	feis	fem
Imperfect	fasse	fasses	fasse	fássemos	fásseis	fassem
Future	far	fares	far	farmos	fardes	farem
Imperative
Affirmative		fa	fe	femos	fai	fem
Negative (não)		não fes	não fe	não femos	não feis	não fem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

References

• “far”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Pharus, French phare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /far/
• Rhymes: -ar

Noun

far n (plural faruri)

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

Declension

Declension of far

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	far	farul		faruri	farurile
genitive-dative	far	farului		faruri	farurilor
vocative	farule			farurilor

Romansch

Alternative forms

• fer (Puter)

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin fāre.

Verb

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

1. to do
2. to make

Conjugation

    Conjugation of far (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	vegnel a far	vegns a far	vegn a far	vegnin a far	vegnis a far	vegnan a 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	vegness a far	vegnesses a far	vegness a far	vegnessen a far	vegnesses a far	vegnessen a far
indirect future	vegnessi a far	vegnessies a far	vegnessi a far	vegnessien a far	vegnessies a far	vegnessien a 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	vegni a far	vegnies a far	vegni a far	vegnîen a far	vegnîes a far	vegnien a far
imperative	—	ti	—	—	vus	—
		fai			fagei

    Conjugation of far (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	vegnel a far	vegns a far	vegn a far	vegnin a far	vegnis a far	vegnan a far
conditional	jeu	ti	el/ella	nus	vus	els/ellas
present	faschess	faschesses	faschess	faschessen	faschesses	faschessen
future	vegness a far	vegnesses a far	vegness a far	vegnessen a far	vegnesses a far	vegnessen a 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	vegni a far	vegnies a far	vegni a far	vegnîen a far	vegnîes a far	vegnien a far
imperative	—	ti	—	—	vus	—
		fa			faschai

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

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”).

Adverb

far

1. where (relative/non-interrogative)

   Bha e cunnartach far an robh am balach ag iasgach. ― It was dangerous where the boy was fishing.

References

• R. A. Breatnach (1973) “The relative adverb mar a”, in Celtica, volume 10, pages 167–170: “As regards Sc. far a, all I can suggest is that the initial f- is possibly to be referred to the /v-/ variants instanced among the M.Ir. forms of baile i listed above. But fail may be a more likely influence;”
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 baile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “? 1 bail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Etymology 2

Clipping of de bhàrr

Alternative forms

• bhàrr

Preposition

far (+ genitive)

1. (down) from, off

   thuit e far eich ― he fell off a horse

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɾ/ [ˈfaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: far

Verb

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

1. Obsolete spelling of hacer.

    Conjugation of far (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			far
gerund			fando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		fado		fada
		plural		fados		fadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	fo	fas	fa	famos	fais	fan
	imperfect	faba	fabas	faba	fábamos	fabais	faban
	preterite	fe	faste	fo	famos	fasteis	faron
	future	faré	farás	fará	faremos	faréis	farán
	conditional	faría	farías	faría	faríamos	faríais	farían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	fe	fes	fe	femos	feis	fen
	imperfect (ra)	fara	faras	fara	fáramos	farais	faran
	imperfect (se)	fase	fases	fase	fásemos	faseis	fasen
	future1	fare	fares	fare	fáremos	fareis	faren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		fa	fe	femos	fad	fen
	negative		no fes	no fe	no femos	no feis	no fen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.

    Selected combined forms of far

These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
with infinitive far	dative	farme	farte	farle, farse	farnos	faros	farles, farse
	accusative	farme	farte	farlo, farla, farse	farnos	faros	farlos, farlas, farse
with gerund fando	dative	fándome	fándote	fándole, fándose	fándonos	fándoos	fándoles, fándose
	accusative	fándome	fándote	fándolo, fándola, fándose	fándonos	fándoos	fándolos, fándolas, fándose
with informal second-person singular tú/vos imperative fa	dative	fame	fate	fale	fanos	not used	fales
	accusative	fame	fate	falo, fala	fanos	not used	falos, falas
with formal second-person singular imperative fe	dative	feme	not used	fele, fese	fenos	not used	feles
	accusative	feme	not used	felo, fela, fese	fenos	not used	felos, felas
with first-person plural imperative femos	dative	not used	fémoste	fémosle	fémonos	fémoos	fémosles
	accusative	not used	fémoste	fémoslo, fémosla	fémonos	fémoos	fémoslos, fémoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative fad	dative	fadme	not used	fadle	fadnos	faos	fadles
	accusative	fadme	not used	fadlo, fadla	fadnos	faos	fadlos, fadlas
with formal second-person plural imperative fen	dative	fenme	not used	fenle	fennos	not used	fenles, fense
	accusative	fenme	not used	fenlo, fenla	fennos	not used	fenlos, fenlas, fense

    Conjugation of farse (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			farse
gerund			fándose
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		fado		fada
		plural		fados		fadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
personal non-finite		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	infinitive	farme	farte	farse	farnos	faros	farse
	gerund	fándome	fándote	fándose	fándonos	fándoos	fándose
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	me fo	te fas	se fa	nos famos	os fais	se fan
	imperfect	me faba	te fabas	se faba	nos fábamos	os fabais	se faban
	preterite	me fe	te faste	se fo	nos famos	os fasteis	se faron
	future	me faré	te farás	se fará	nos faremos	os faréis	se farán
	conditional	me faría	te farías	se faría	nos faríamos	os faríais	se farían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	me fe	te fes	se fe	nos femos	os feis	se fen
	imperfect (ra)	me fara	te faras	se fara	nos fáramos	os farais	se faran
	imperfect (se)	me fase	te fases	se fase	nos fásemos	os faseis	se fasen
	future1	me fare	te fares	se fare	nos fáremos	os fareis	se faren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		fate	fese	fémonos	faos	fense
	negative		no te fes	no se fe	no nos femos	no os feis	no se fen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.

Further reading

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

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑːr/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

far c

1. father

Declension

Declension of far

		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 corresponding lemma form.

Verb

far

1. inflection of fara:
   1. imperative
   2. present indicative

Etymology 3

Short for farled.

Noun

far n

1. (nautical, Finland) Short for farled.

References

• far in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• far in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• far in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• FRA, arf, fra.

Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French phare.

Noun

far (definite accusative farı, plural farlar)

1. headlight

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French fard.

Noun

far (definite accusative farı, plural farlar)

1. eye shadow

Declension

Declension of far

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

Inherited from Late Latin fāre.

Verb

far

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

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [faɾ]

Noun

far (nominative plural fars)

1. lighthouse

Declension

Declension of far

	singular	plural
nominative	far	fars
genitive	fara	faras
dative	fare	fares
accusative	fari	faris
vocative 1	o far!	o fars!
predicative 2	faru	farus

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

See also

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