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Added 10 October 2026

fa

/fɑ/ symbol

Latin root: famulī Wiktionary

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ISO 639-1 language code for Persian.

noun

A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale. Sometimes syllable for both the tonic and the fourth.
Sometimes syllable for both the tonic and the fourth.

preposition

Alternative spelling of for.

Origin

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English fa (“fourth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian fa in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin famulī (“servants”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

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