faule

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔːl/
• Rhymes: -ɔːl

Noun

faule (plural faules)

1. (obsolete) A fall or falling band.
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “te Dirge of Jephthahs Daugher: Sung by the Virgins”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: H. G. Clarke and Co., […], 1844, →OCLC:

     these laces, ribbands, and these faules

     The spelling has been modernized.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “faule”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin fabula.

Noun

faule f (plural faules)

1. fable

German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

faule

1. inflection of faul:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Plautdietsch

Verb

faule

1. to fall

Related terms

• Faul m

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfaw.li/ [ˈfaʊ̯.li]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfaw.li/ [ˈfaʊ̯.li]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfaw.le/ [ˈfaʊ̯.le]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfaw.lɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -awli, (Portugal) -awlɨ
• Hyphenation: fau‧le

Verb

faule

1. inflection of faular:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative