fajo

See also: fajó and fájó

Fula

Noun

fajo

1. (Pular) possibility, chance

References

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• faio (alt. spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin fāgeus. Compare Italian faggio.

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈfaːjə]

Noun

fajo m (plural faje)

1. beech (tree)

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 578: “il faggio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Ledgeway, Adam (2009) Grammatica diacronica del napoletano, Tübingen: Niemeyer, page 111

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaxo/ [ˈfa.xo]
• Rhymes: -axo
• Syllabification: fa‧jo

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Aragonese faxo, ultimately from Latin fascis. Cognate with English fagot (“bundle of sticks bound together”).

Noun

fajo m (plural fajos)

1. bundle, wad

   Synonym: manojo

Etymology 2

Verb

fajo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fajar

Further reading

• “fajo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10