fals

• fils

From Arabic فَلْس (fals), from Aramaic פילס / ܦܠܣ / פולסא / ܦܘܠܣܐ (/⁠fuləsā, filas⁠/), from Ancient Greek φόλλις (phóllis), from Latin follis. Doublet of fool.

fals (plural fulus)

1. (numismatics, Middle Ages) Medieval copper coin first produced by the Umayyad caliphate beginning in the late 7th century.

• Alfs, Salf, AFLs, FLSA, alfs, fasl

Inherited from Latin falsus (“false”). First attested in the 12th century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfals]
• Rhymes: -als
• Homophone: falç

fals (feminine falsa, masculine plural falsos, feminine plural falses)

1. false (untrue, not factual, wrong)

• falsament

• falsar
• falsedat
• falsejar

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

From Latin falsus.

fals

1. false

Borrowed from Middle High German valsch.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒlʃ]
• Hyphenation: fals
• Rhymes: -ɒlʃ

fals (comparative falsabb, superlative legfalsabb)

1. false (not well-founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous)

   Synonyms: hamis, téves, helytelen, ál-

   fals érvelés ― false argumentation

   fals pozitív ― false positive

   fals nyom ― false track

2. (music) out of tune, off-key, wrong

   fals hang ― wrong note

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	fals	falsak
accusative	falsat	falsakat
dative	falsnak	falsaknak
instrumental	falssal	falsakkal
causal-final	falsért	falsakért
translative	falssá	falsakká
terminative	falsig	falsakig
essive-formal	falsként	falsakként
essive-modal	falsul	—
inessive	falsban	falsakban
superessive	falson	falsakon
adessive	falsnál	falsaknál
illative	falsba	falsakba
sublative	falsra	falsakra
allative	falshoz	falsakhoz
elative	falsból	falsakból
delative	falsról	falsakról
ablative	falstól	falsaktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	falsé	falsaké
non-attributive possessive - plural	falséi	falsakéi

fals (plural falsok)

1. (billiards) spin

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	fals	falsok
accusative	falsot	falsokat
dative	falsnak	falsoknak
instrumental	falssal	falsokkal
causal-final	falsért	falsokért
translative	falssá	falsokká
terminative	falsig	falsokig
essive-formal	falsként	falsokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	falsban	falsokban
superessive	falson	falsokon
adessive	falsnál	falsoknál
illative	falsba	falsokba
sublative	falsra	falsokra
allative	falshoz	falsokhoz
elative	falsból	falsokból
delative	falsról	falsokról
ablative	falstól	falsoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	falsé	falsoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	falséi	falsokéi

Possessive forms of fals
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	falsom	falsaim
2nd person sing.	falsod	falsaid
3rd person sing.	falsa	falsai
1st person plural	falsunk	falsaink
2nd person plural	falsotok	falsaitok
3rd person plural	falsuk	falsaik

• fals in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• IPA^(key): /fals/
• Rhymes: -als

Borrowed from Latin falsus.

fals n (genitive singular fals, nominative plural föls)

1. falseness, dissimulation

   Synonym: svik

2. fraud, imposture
3. forgery

   Synonym: fölsun

• falsa (“to falsify”)

Borrowed from Danish fals.

fals n (genitive singular fals, nominative plural föls)

1. groove, notch

   Synonyms: skora, gróp

From Dutch vals (“false”), from Latin falsus (“counterfeit, false; falsehood”), perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈfal(ə̆)s]

fals (first-person possessive falsku, second-person possessive falsmu, third-person possessive falsnya)

1. (music) off-key, out of tune

• fauls, vals
• faus, fauce

From Old English fals, borrowed from Latin falsus (“false”), and partly from Old French fals.

• IPA^(key): /fals/, /fau̯ls/, /fau̯s/

fals

1. false (untrue, not factual, wrong)

• English: false
• Scots: fause
• Yola: fause, faulse, valse
• → Irish: falsa, falsach, fallsa (superseded)

• “fals, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin falsus (“false”).

• IPA^(key): /fals/

• Audio (Béarn):

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fals m (feminine singular falsa, masculine plural falses, feminine plural falsas)

1. false

• falsetat
• falsificar

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[1], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 470.
• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 287.

Borrowed from Latin falsus.

• IPA^(key): /fɑls/, [fɑɫs]

fals n

1. falsehood, fraud, counterfeit

Strong a-stem:

fals

1. (of weight or coinage) false

• Middle English: fals, fauls, vals, faus, fauce (conflated with Old French fals)
  • English: false
  • Scots: fause
  • Yola: fause, faulse, valse
  • → Irish: falsa, falsach, fallsa (superseded)

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “fals”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “fals”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[3], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• falt, fro, faus, faux

From Latin falsus (“false”).

• IPA^(key): (early) /ˈfals/
• IPA^(key): (late) /ˈfaɫs/, /ˈfaws/

fals m (oblique and nominative feminine singular false)

1. false (untrue, not factual, wrong)

• Middle French: faulx
  • French: faux
    • → English: faux
• Norman: faux
• Picard: foe
• → Dutch: vals
• → Middle English: fals, fauls, vals, faus, fauce (partly)
  • English: false
  • Scots: fause
  • Yola: fause, faulse, valse
  • → Irish: falsa, falsach, fallsa (superseded)
• → Middle High German: vals, fals
• → Middle Low German: vals

• falș

Probably borrowed from Latin falsus (“false”). The variant form falș is from German falsch.

• IPA^(key): /fals/

• Audio:

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fals m or n (feminine singular falsă, masculine plural falși, feminine and neuter plural false)

1. false (untrue, not factual, wrong)

   Synonym: neadevărat

   Antonym: adevărat

From Dutch vals.

fals

1. vicious
2. angry

fals

1. to be angry