fa

Noun

fa (plural fas)

1. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing the Arrival of an Irish Gentleman, with very extraordinary Adventures which ensued at the Inn”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book X, pages 11–12:

     And now Mrs. Waters (for we muſt confeſs ſhe was in the ſame Bed) being, I ſuppoſe, awakened from her Sleep, and ſeeing two Men fighting in her Bed-chamber, began to ſcream in the moſt violent Manner, crying out Murder! Robbery! and more frequently Rape! which laſt, ſome, perhaps, may wonder ſhe ſhould mention, who do not conſider that theſe Words of Exclamation are uſed by Ladies in a Fright, as Fa, la, la, ra, da, &c. are in Muſic, only as the Vehicles of Sound, and without any fixed Ideas.

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Preposition

fa

1. (informal) Alternative spelling of for
   • 2000, Requiem for a Dream, spoken by Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto):

     Do ya wanna be a dope fiend fa krist’s sake?

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Noun

fa m (plural fas)

1. (music) fa (fourth note of diatonic scale)

Verb

fa

1. third-person singular present indicative of fer

Preposition

fa

1. ago

   fa molts anys...

   many years ago...

Interjection

fa

1. (dialectal) a particle used in some dialects to emphasize a negative sentence

   Fa que no es veu!

   it’s obvious!

   (literally, “it does that it's not seen!”)

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -fera

• Nominal derivations:
  • imfa (“death”)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• fasleutel

Derived terms

• clef de fa