fàura
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Semi-learned borrowing from Logudorese fàula (“lie”),[1] from Classical Latin fābula (“narrative; fable; poem”). Compare Catalan faula (“fable; falsehood”). Doublet of fora (“fable”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fàura f (plural fàuri)
- lie, falsehood
- dì fauri ― to lie, to tell lies
- 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Puisia”, in La poesia di l'althri (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 19:
- […] un’oasi prupizia pa’ pudé
cu lu pientu annittavvi da li fàuri
chi vi sò già incighendi.- A propitious oasis, so I can cleanse you with my tears from the lies that are already blinding you.
- 2010 September 29, Ignazio Sanna, “Li sigurànzi di Don Fedele”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese[1]:
- tuttu lu chi v’abìa fattu bì in chissa vigìria di Pascha era sóru una gróssa faura
- everything he had you believe in that Easter Eve was just a big lie
References
[edit]- Ugo Solinas (2016) Vocabolario sassarese-italiano fraseologico ed etimologico, volume 1, Sestu: Domus de Janas, →ISBN, page 512
- Giosue Muzzo (1981) Vocabolario del dialetto sassarese, Chiarella Editore, →ISBN; republished, Sassari: Carlo Delfino editore, 2018, page 77
- Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
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