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falar

Pronunciation: /faˈlaɾ/

“falar” is a Galician word. Its 8 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to speak, to talk
  2. [with con ‘to someone’]
  3. to speak
  4. to talk about
  5. to speak (to be able to communicate in a language)
  6. to get along
  7. to have a relation

noun

  1. speech

In Galician

  1. Emitir sons articulados coa voz, pronunciar palabras e comunicar deste xeito un pensamento.
  2. Afalar ó gando.
  3. Manter unha relación amorosa cunha persoa.

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese falar, from Latin fābulārī (“chat, converse”). Doublet of fabular, which was borrowed from Latin. Compare Asturian, Mirandese and Portuguese falar, Spanish hablar.

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