faso

From fa (“father”) +‎ so (“land”).

faso

1. state, homeland

• IPA^(key): /fà.só/

faso

1. fatherland, homeland

• → French: Burkina Faso

From Proto-West Germanic *fasō, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pē̆s- (“to blow”), which could be related to Polish pasmo (“band, strip, streak”).^[1] But, according to Kroonen, this is at odds with the spelling variants *fesōn and *fisōn, and he prefers a connection with Ancient Greek πτύσσω (ptússō, “I fold”), from a Pre-Germanic root *fisan-, from Proto-Indo-European *tpis-e- << *tpis-.^[2]

faso m

1. fibre

• Middle High German: vase
  • German: Faser

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaso/ [ˈfa.so]
• Rhymes: -aso
• Syllabification: fa‧so

faso m (plural fasos)

1. (Lunfardo) joint (marijuana cigarette)

• “faso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28