"falla" meaning in Spanish

See falla in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈfaʝa/, [ˈfa.ʝa], /ˈfaʝa/, [ˈfa.ʝa], /ˈfaʎa/, [ˈfa.ʎa], /ˈfaʃa/, [ˈfa.ʃa], /ˈfaʒa/, [ˈfa.ʒa], /ˈfaja/, [ˈfa.ja] Forms: fallas [plural]
Rhymes: -aʝa, -aʝa (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain), -aʎa (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines), -aʃa (Buenos Aires and environs), -aʒa (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay), -aja (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama)) Etymology: Likely from Catalan falla, with the geological sense from French faille. Etymology templates: {{bor|es|ca|falla}} Catalan falla, {{bor|es|fr|faille}} French faille Head templates: {{es-noun|f}} falla f (plural fallas)
  1. flaw Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-falla-es-noun-AxoEJ7I3
  2. failure Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-falla-es-noun-FtNLXnvL
  3. outage, such as a blackout Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-falla-es-noun-GqvLmdT2
  4. (geology) fault Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-falla-es-noun-8cVi6uMv Categories (other): Geology Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: fallar
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ˈfaʝa/, [ˈfa.ʝa], /ˈfaʝa/, [ˈfa.ʝa], /ˈfaʎa/, [ˈfa.ʎa], /ˈfaʃa/, [ˈfa.ʃa], /ˈfaʒa/, [ˈfa.ʒa], /ˈfaja/, [ˈfa.ja]
Rhymes: -aʝa, -aʝa (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain), -aʎa (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines), -aʃa (Buenos Aires and environs), -aʒa (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay), -aja (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama)) Head templates: {{head|es|verb form}} falla
  1. inflection of fallar:
    third-person singular present indicative
    Tags: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Form of: fallar
    Sense id: en-falla-es-verb-cNa~nGCx Categories (other): Pages with entries, Spanish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 2 2 0 0 1 7 0 4 6 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 2 1 7 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 6 6 2 7 0 6 0 0 0 1 7 0 6 0 0 0 Disambiguation of Spanish entries with incorrect language header: 3 5 3 9 39 7 28 7
  2. inflection of fallar:
    second-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, second-person, singular Form of: fallar
    Sense id: en-falla-es-verb--UO-Qp6j
  3. inflection of fallir:
    first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    Tags: first-person, form-of, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person Form of: fallir
    Sense id: en-falla-es-verb-bGj8iJ56
  4. inflection of fallir:
    third-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, singular, third-person Form of: fallir
    Sense id: en-falla-es-verb-3aiU8GEm
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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      "ipa": "/ˈfaʝa/"
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈfaʒa/"
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    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ʒa]"
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈfaja/"
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      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ja]"
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    {
      "rhymes": "-aja (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))"
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      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ʝa]"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfaʝa/"
    },
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      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ʝa]"
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈfaʎa/"
    },
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      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ʎa]"
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈfaʃa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ʃa]"
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈfaʒa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ʒa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfaja/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ja]"
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈfaʝa/"
    },
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      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ʝa]"
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      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ʎa]"
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      "ipa": "/ˈfaʃa/"
    },
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      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ʃa]"
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      "ipa": "/ˈfaʒa/"
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      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ʒa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfaja/"
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    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ja]"
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    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ʝa]"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfaʝa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ʝa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfaʎa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ʎa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfaʃa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ʃa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfaʒa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ʒa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfaja/"
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      "ipa": "[ˈfa.ja]"
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʒa (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aja (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))"
    }
  ],
  "word": "falla"
}

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