falar
Portuguese
/fɐ.ˈlaɾ/, /fa.ˈla(ʁ)/, /fa.ˈla(h)/, /fa.ˈlaɹ/
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) to speak; to talk to say words out loud
- (by extension) to communicate by any means
- (transitive) to say something
- to talk to
- to tell to convey by speech
- to talk about
- to speak ill of
- (transitive) to speak to be able to communicate in a language
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese falar inherited from Latin *fabulare, *fāb(u)lāre, fābulārī.
Origin
Latin
fābulārī
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *fabellare Latin
- *fabulare, *fāb(u)lāre Latin
- *fābellāre Latin
- -torius Latin
- fābulari Latin
- fābulor Latin
- fābulārī Latin
- hâbler French
- habladuría Spanish, Castilian
- hablante Spanish, Castilian
- hablar Spanish, Castilian
- hablista Spanish, Castilian
- altifalante Portuguese
- bem-falante Portuguese
- falante Portuguese
- falatório Portuguese
- falabarato Galician
- falante Galician
- falar Galician
- αμπλαούμπλας Greek (modern)
- falar Old Portuguese
- falar Asturian
- fablar Old Spanish
- abla Papiamentu
- favlur Dalmatian
- fala Kabuverdianu
- fla Kabuverdianu
- favalà Istriot
- fala Guinea-Bissau Creole
- falar Mirandese
- fallá Indo-Portuguese
- hablar Sabir