Verb fromMiddle English fallen Old English feallan ( “ to fall, fail, decay, die, attack ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *fallan ( “ to fall ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *fallaną ( “ to fall ” ) .
Cognate withWest Frisian falle ( “ to fall ” ) ,Low German fallen ( “ to fall ” ) ,Dutch vallen ( “ to fall ” ) ,German fallen ( “ to fall ” ) ,Danish falde ( “ to fall ” ) ,Norwegian Bokmål falle ( “ to fall ” ) ,Norwegian Nynorsk falla ( “ to fall ” ) ,Icelandic falla ( “ to fall ” ) ,Lithuanian pùlti ( “ to attack, rush ” ) .
Noun fromMiddle English fal fall falle Old English feall ġefeall ( “ a falling, fall ” ) andOld English fealle ( “ trap, snare ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *fallą *fallaz ( “ a fall, trap ” ) . Cognate withDutch val German Fall ( “ fall ” ) andGerman Falle ( “ trap, snare ” ) ,Danish fald Swedish fall Icelandic fall
Sense of "autumn" is attested by the 1660s inEngland as a shortening offall of the leaf autumn , it mostly replaced the older nameharvest spring
fall (third-person singular simple present falls present participle falling simple past fell past participle fallen
A sign warning about the danger offalling rocks. ( heading, intransitive ) To be moved downwards. To move to a lower position under the effect ofgravity .Thrown from a cliff, the stonefell 100 feet before hitting the ground.
Ifell unconscious on the floor.
1913 Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes , chapter II, inThe Lodger Methuen ,→OCLC Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened , New York, N.Y.:Longmans, Green and Co. , [ … ] [ 1933] →OCLC page0091 :There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feetfell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
To come down, todrop ordescend .The rainfell at dawn.
2018 June 13, Rory Smith, “IQ scores are falling and have been for decades, new study finds”, inCNN [2] The study not only showed IQ variance between children the same parents, but because the authors had the IQ scores of various parents, it demonstrated that parents with higher IQs tended to have more kids, ruling out the dysgenic fertility theory as a driver offalling IQ scores and highlighting the role of environmental factors instead.
To come as if by dropping down.1898 Whoso Findeth a Wife , page256 :Once or twice a noisefell upon his quick ear, and we halted, he standing revolver in hand in an attitude of defense. Each time, however, we ascertained that we had no occasion for alarm, the noise being made by some animal or bird ...
1904 The Jewel of Seven Stars , page248 :And then a sudden calmfell on us like a cloud of fear. There! on the table, lay the Jewel of Seven Stars, shining and sparkling with lurid light, as though each of the seven points of each of the seven stars gleamed through blood!
1971 , Henry Raup Wagner,Spanish Explorations in the Strait of Juan de Fuca :Shortly afterwards a breeze came up from the N [ …] dark clouds closing in over everything. At 3 in the afternoon the breeze came up from the S with a thick drizzle. Thus nightfell , and thus we passed the rest of it. 1981 Schreiber's Choice , Ace Books,→ISBN The horse wrangler, a tall, bronzed-face man, waved to the wagon driver. The driver laughed.[ …] fell over the desert.
To come to the grounddeliberately , toprostrate oneself.Hefell to the floor and begged for mercy.
To be brought to the ground. ( transitive ) To move downwards. ( obsolete ) ( obsolete ) tofall the voice
( UK , US , dialect , archaic ) fell ; to cut down.tofall a tree
( intransitive ) To change, often negatively. ( copulative , in idiomatic expressions) become ( chiefly used with negative states ) .Near-synonyms: become get go turn come grow wax She hasfallen ill The childrenfell asleep When did you firstfall in love fall silentfall sickfall pregnantfall victim1855 December –1857 JuneCharles Dickens , chapter 1, inLittle Dorrit Bradbury and Evans , [ … ] 1857 ,→OCLC page27 :At length they stood at the corner from which they had begun, and it hadfallen quite dark, and they were no wiser.
1971 , Henry Raup Wagner,Spanish Explorations in the Strait of Juan de Fuca :Shortly afterwards a breeze came up from the N and then itfell calm, [ …] ( intransitive ) collapse ; to beoverthrown ordefeated .Romefell to the Goths in 410 AD.
( intransitive , formal , euphemistic ) die , especially inbattle or bydisease .This is a monument to all those whofell in the First World War.
( intransitive ) The candidate's poll ratingsfell abruptly after the banking scandal.
1612 John Davies ,Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued :The greatness of these Irish lords suddenlyfell and vanished.
2013 July 20, “Old soldiers? ”, inThe Economist 408 , number8845 :Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[ …] fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
Tooccur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); tohappen .Thanksgiving alwaysfalls on a Thursday.
Last year, Commencementfell on June 3.
1978 Letters to Mamie , Doubleday Books:(Thus D-dayfell on June 6 rather than the planned June 5.)
( intransitive ) allotted to; toarrive throughchance ,fate , orinheritance .And so itfalls to me to make this important decision.
The estatefell to his brother.
The kingdomfell into the hands of his rivals.
( transitive , obsolete ) 1691 John Locke ],Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. [ … ] , London: [ … ] Awnsham and John Churchill, [ … ] 1692 ,→OCLC Upon lessening interest to four per cent, youfall the price of your native commodities.
( transitive , obsolete ) tofall lambs
c. 1596–1598 William Shakespeare , “The Merchant of Venice ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act I, scene iii] :The shepherd[ …] [ …] fall part-colour'd lambs
( intransitive , obsolete ) 1672 The Office of the Good House-wife , page27 :As for Calves newlyfallen , you must leave them with good Litter of fresh Straw until such qime as the Cows have licked and cleansed them,
1805 A general treatise on cattle, the ox, the sheep, and the swine, etc , page100 :My intended remarks are on the cords , and wiping dry the newly fallen calf
1869 Sheep: Their Breeds, Management, and Diseases , page382 :another writer, adopting a similar opinion, affirms that it results from the lambs not being docked at a sufficiently early period; for "sometimes the ewe, in the ardour of her maternal affection, chews away the tail from her newly-fallen lamb, and none of these are afterwards affectd by the sturdy;
1892 Special Report on the History and Present Condition of the Sheep Industry of the United States , page422 :The newlyfallen lambs are a peculiar sight, as they invariably come spotted or black ; but while the head and legs retain their inky black color, the wool grows out white as with the other Down breeds.
( intransitive ) ( intransitive ) tofall into error; tofall into difficulties; tofall into ruin
( intransitive ) 1712 (date written),[Joseph] Addison ,Cato, a Tragedy. [ … ] [ … ] J[ acob] Tonson , [ … ] 1713 ,→OCLC page 4 :I have observed of late thy looks arefallen .
( intransitive ) c. 1596–1598 William Shakespeare , “The Merchant of Venice ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act I, scene ii] :[ …] fall that everfell , I hope I shall make shift to go without him.
1701 Jonathan Swift ], “Chapter I”, inA Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome, with the Consequences They Had upon Both Those States , London: [ … ] John Nutt [ … ] →OCLC page 9 :[ …] Polybius Regno ,Optimatium , &Populi imperio . Which may be fairly Tranſlated, theKings ,Lords andCommons .[ …] Romans fell upon this Model purely by chance, (which I take to have been Nature and common Reaſon) but theSpartans by Thought and Deſign.1879 ,Herbert Spencer ,Principles of Sociology Volume II – Part IV:Ceremonial Institutions Primitive men [ …] do not make laws, theyfall into customs. ( intransitive ) After arguing, theyfell to blows.
( intransitive ) An unguarded expressionfell from his lips.
( intransitive , of a fabric) hang down( under the influence of gravity ) .An Empire-style dress has a high waistline – directly under the bust – from which the dressfalls all the way to a hem as low as the floor.
( intransitive , slang , African-American Vernacular ) We'llfall over to the club tonight.
c. 1593 (date written),William Shakespeare , “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: [ … ] ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act V, scene iii] :Ghoaſt [of Clarence]. [ …] fall thy edgeleſſe ſword, diſpaire and die.
( move to a lower position under the effect of gravity ) : drop plummet plunge ( come down ) : come down descend drop ( come to the ground deliberately ) : drop lower prostrate oneself( be brought to the ground ) : ( collapse; be overthrown or defeated ) : bebeaten by, bedefeated by, beoverthrown by, besmitten by, bevanquished by,( die ) : die ( be allotted to ) : be theresponsibility of, beup to ( become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc) ) :dip ,drop ( become ) : become get ( cause (something) to descend to the ground ) :cut down ( of a tree ) ,fell ,knock down ,knock over ,strike down ( antonym(s) of “ come down ” ) : ascend go rise ( antonym(s) of “ come to the ground deliberately ” ) : get up pick oneself up stand up ( collapse; be overthrown or defeated ) :beat ,defeat ,overthrow ,smite ,vanquish ( become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc) ) :rise almost fall off one's chair fall off one's chair nearly fall off one's chair atfall befall bottom fall out bottom falls out catch a falling knife downfall easy as falling off a log fair fall fallable fall aboard fall aboard of fall about fall about someone's ears fall about the place fall abreast of fall abroad of fall across fall adown fall afire fall afoul fall afoul of fall after fallage fall all over someone or oneself fall among fall apart fall around fall asleep fall aslope fall astern fall asunder fall at fall at the crest fall at the final hurdle fall at the first fence fall at the first hurdle fall at the last hurdle fall away fall-back fall back fall back, fall edge fall back into fall back on fall back upon fall behind fall behindhand fall below fall between the cracks fall between two stools fall by fall by the wayside fall calm fall classic fall dead fall down fall down on fall due fallen faller fall flat fall flat on one's face fall for fall forth fall foul fall foul of fall foul with fall from fall from grace fall heir fall home fall ill fall in fall in age fall in flesh fall in for falling falling block falling in love falling off the bone falling-out falling out falling together fall in line fall in love fall in lust fall in mold fall in mould fall in one's road fall in one's way fall in somebody's heart fall in someone's heart fall in somebody's mind fall in someone's mind fall into fall into a trap fall into line fall into oneself fall into one's hands fall into one's lap fall into place fall into somebody's heart fall into someone's heart fall into somebody's mind fall into someone's mind fall into someone's hands fall into someone's lap fall into the wrong hands fall in two fall in upon fall in with fall of fall off fall off a cliff fall off a truck fall off one's perch fall off the back of a lorry fall off the back of a truck fall off the cliff fall off the radar fall off the turnip truck fall off the wagon fall of the wall fall on fall on a grenade fall on board fall on deaf ears fall one's crest fall on hard times fall on one's face fall on one's feet fall on one's knees fall on one's sword fall on shore fall on sleep fall on someone's neck fall on stony ground fall on the crest fall open fall out fall out in fall out of fall out of favor fall out of love fall out upon fall out with fall over fall over oneself fall over one's feet fall pregnant fall prey fall prey to fall short fall short of fall short to fall sick fall silent fallstreaks fallstreifen fall through fall through the cracks fall through the floor fall to fall to be fall to bits fall together fall to loggerheads fall to mold fall to mould fall to oneself fall to one's knees fall to one's lot fall to one's share fall to pieces fall to powder fall to someone's lot fall to the ground fall under fall unto fall up fall upon fall upon someone's neck fall victim to fall what can fall fall what will fall fall with fall within fell ( verb, as in “to fell a tree”, “to fell an opponent” ) foul fall he who digs a pit for others falls in himself how the mighty have fallen let fall let the chips fall where they may let the dice fall where they may like falling off a log may fall may-fall misfall of-fall overfall refall scales fall from someone's eyes spring forward, fall back tendency of the rate of profit to fall the apple does not fall far from the stem the apple does not fall far from the tree the apple doesn't fall far from the tree the apple never falls far from the tree the apple does not fall far from the trunk thebigger they are, the harder they fall , thebigger they come, the harder they fall the curtain falls the nut does not fall far from the tree the rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain the sky fell in the sky will fall on your head to-fall trust-falling under-fall united we stand, divided we fall until the wheels fall off move to a lower position under the effect of gravity
Afar:rade Afrikaans:val (af) Albanian:bie (sq) Altai:Southern Altai:тӱжер ( tüžer ) ,јыгылар ( ǰïgïlar ) Alviri-Vidari:بکتن ( beketen ) Ao:tsük ( Chungli ) Arabic:وَقَعَ ( waqaʕa ) ,سَقَطَ (ar) ( saqaṭa ) ,تَسَاقَطَ ( tasāqaṭa ) ,هَوَى (ar) m ( hawā ) Egyptian Arabic:وقع ( wiʔiʕ ) Gulf Arabic:طاح ( ṭāḥ ) Hijazi Arabic:طاح ( ṭāḥ ) Aragonese:cayer (an) Aramaic:Syriac:ܢܦܠ ( npal ) Western Neo-Aramaic:ܐܠܚܩ ( elḥak ) Armenian:ընկնել (hy) ( ənknel ) Aromanian:cad Assamese:পৰা ( pora ) Asturian:cayer caer Azerbaijani:düşmək (az) Bakhtiari:وستن ( vasten ) Bashkir:төшөү ( töşöw ) Basque:erori Belarusian:па́даць impf ( pádacʹ ) ,упа́сці pf ( upásci ) ,ўпа́сці pf ( wpásci ) Bengali:পড়া (bn) ( poṛa ) Bhojpuri:गिरल ( giral ) Borôro:wudu Bulgarian:па́дам (bg) impf ( pádam ) Burmese:ကျ (my) ( kya. ) Catalan:caure (ca) Cebuano:hulog Cherokee:( animate creature ) ᎦᎶᏍᎦ ( galosga ) ,( something long ) ᎠᏐᎣᏍᎦ ( asoosga ) ,( something flexible or liquid ) ᎦᏙᎣᏍᎦ ( gadoosga ) ,( something solid ) ᎪᎰᏍᎦ ( gohosga ) Chinese:Mandarin:落 (zh) ( luò ) ,落下 (zh) ( luòxià ) ,掉 (zh) ( diào ) Comorian:Ngazidja Comorian:uɗanguha Czech:padat (cs) impf padnout (cs) pf Dalmatian:cadar Danish:falde (da) Dutch:vallen (nl) Esperanto:fali (eo) Estonian:kukkuma langema Even:тиктэй ( tiktəj ) Faroese:falla (fo) Finnish:pudota (fi) ,kaatua (fi) ,sataa (fi) ( rain ) French:tomber (fr) ,chuter (fr) ,choir (fr) Frisian:North Frisian:( Föhr-Amrum ) faal Old Frisian:falla West Frisian:falle Friulian:cjadê čhadê Galician:caer (gl) ,caerse Georgian:დაცემა ( dacema ) ,დავარდნა ( davardna ) ,წაქცევა ( c̣akceva ) German:fallen (de) Alemannic German:gheie Old High German:fallan Gothic:𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 ( driusan ) Greek:πέφτω (el) ( péfto ) Ancient Greek:πίπτω ( píptō ) Guarani:Mbya Guarani:'a Paraguayan Guarani:(pleaseverify ) 'a (pleaseverify ) kúi Hebrew:נָפַל (he) ( nafál ) Higaonon:hahulog Hindi:गिरना (hi) ( girnā ) ,पड़ना (hi) ( paṛnā ) Hmong:White Hmong:poob Hungarian:esik (hu) ,zuhan (hu) Icelandic:falla (is) ,detta (is) Ido:falar (io) Indonesian:jatuh (id) ,gugur (id) ,runtuh (id) ,tumbang (id) Ingrian:langeta tokkua lankiissa puntsahtaa puota Interlingua:cader (ia) Irish:tit Old Irish:do·tuit Istriot:caì cascà Italian:cadere (it) ,cascare (it) Japanese:落ちる (ja) ( おちる, ochiru ) ,崩れる (ja) ( くずれる, kuzureru ) ,落下する (ja) ( らっかする, rakka suru ) ,転ぶ (ja) ( ころぶ, korobu ) ,降下する ( こうかする, kōkasuru ) ,降る (ja) ( ふる, furu ) Javanese:tiba (jv) Kaitag:кабирка́ра ( kabirkára ) Kashubian:padac impf Kazakh:жығылу ( jyğylu ) ,құлау (kk) ( qūlau ) Khmer:ធ្លាក់ (km) ( thlĕək ) ,រលំ (km) ( rɔlum ) Kongo:bwa Korean:넘어지다 (ko) ( neomeojida ) ,쓰러지다 (ko) ( sseureojida ) ,떨어지다 (ko) ( tteoreojida ) ,하락하다 (ko) ( harakhada ) ,낙하하다 (ko) ( nakhahada ) Kumyk:йыгъылмакъ ( yığılmaq ) ,авмакъ ( awmaq ) ,тюшмек ( tüşmek ) ,тёгюльмек ( tögülʹmek ) Kurdish:Central Kurdish:کەوتن ( kewtin ) Northern Kurdish:ketin (ku) ,keftin (ku) Kyrgyz:түшүү (ky) ( tüşüü ) ,жыгыл- ( jıgıl- ) Lao:ຕົກ ( tok ) Latgalian:krist Latin:cado (la) Latvian:krist (lv) ,nokrist Lingala:kwa Lithuanian:kristi (lt) ,nukristi Low German:fallen (nds) Lü:ᦷᦎᧅ ( ṫok ) Macedonian:па́да impf ( páda ) Malayalam:വീഴുക (ml) ( vīḻuka ) ,അധഃപതിക്കുക (ml) ( adhaḥpatikkuka ) Manchu:ᡨᡠᡥᡝᠮᠪᡳ ( tuhembi ) Maranao:olog Mizo:tlà Mongo:kwa Mongolian:унах (mn) ( unax ) Naga:Khiamniungan Naga:ûi Neapolitan:cadé Nepali:खस्नु ( khasnu ) Norwegian:Bokmål:falle (no) ,dette (no) Nynorsk:falle falla dette detta Occitan:càser (oc) ,càder (oc) ,caire (oc) Odia:ପଡିବା ( paḍibā ) Ojibwe:bangishin Old English:drēosan feallan Old Norse:falla Old Saxon:fallan driosan Oromo:kufuu Papiamentu:kai Persian:افتادن (fa) ( oftâdan ) ,فتادن (fa) ( fatâdan ) ( poetic ) Polish:spadać (pl) impf spaść (pl) pf Portuguese:cair (pt) Quechua:urmay ishkiy urmai işkii Rapa Nui:hinga Romagnol:cadér Romanian:cădea (ro) Romansh:crudar Russian:па́дать (ru) impf ( pádatʹ ) ,упа́сть (ru) pf ( upástʹ ) Saho:rade Sami:Northern Sami:gahččat Sanskrit:पतति (sa) ( patati ) Sardinian:orrúe orrúere Scottish Gaelic:tuit Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:па̏дати impf у̀пасти pf Latin:pȁdati (sh) impf ùpasti (sh) pf Sicilian:càdiri (scn) Slovak:padať impf padnúť pf Slovene:pasti (sl) Sorbian:Lower Sorbian:padaś Sotho:wa (st) Spanish:caer (es) ,caerse (es) Sranan Tongo:fadon Sundanese:labuh (su) Swahili:-anguka (sw) Swedish:falla (sv) ,( esp. of something initially upright ) (pleaseverify ) trilla (sv) Sylheti:ꠙꠠꠣ ( foṛa ) Tajik:афтодан (tg) ( aftodan ) Tamil:விழு (ta) ( viḻu ) Tatar:егылырга (tt) ( yığılırğa ) Tausug:hulug Telugu:పడు (te) ( paḍu ) Tetum:monu Thai:ตก (th) ( dtòk ) ,ร่วง (th) ( rûuang ) ,หล่น (th) ( lòn ) Tibetan:འབབ ( 'bab ) ,ལྷུང ( lhung ) ,འཛག ( 'dzag ) Tocharian B:klāy- Tooro:-gwa Turkish:düşmek (tr) Ottoman Turkish:دوشمك ( düşmek ) Turkmen:çökmek gaçmak Ugaritic:𐎐𐎔𐎍 ( npl ) Ukrainian:па́дати impf ( pádaty ) ,упа́сти pf ( upásty ) ,впа́сти pf ( vpásty ) Urdu:گرنا ( girnā ) ,پڑنا ( paṛnā ) Uyghur:please add this translation if you can Uzbek:tushmoq (uz) Venetan:cadare cascar Vietnamese:ngã (vi) ,té (vi) ,rớt (vi) ,rơi (vi) Welsh:syrthio (cy) ,cwympo (cy) Yakut:оҕут ( oğut ) Yiddish:פֿאַלן ( faln ) Zealandic:valle Zhuang:please add this translation if you can
come down or descend
Afrikaans:val (af) Armenian:ընկնել (hy) ( ənknel ) ,գալ (hy) ( gal ) Bashkir:төшөү ( töşöw ) Bulgarian:спадам (bg) ( spadam ) ,понижавам се ( ponižavam se ) Chinese:Mandarin:降 (zh) ( jiàng ) ,下降 (zh) ( xiàjiàng ) Danish:falde (da) Finnish:laskeutua (fi) French:tomber (fr) ,descendre (fr) German:fallen (de) Greek:πέφτω (el) ( péfto ) Irish:tit Old Irish:do·tuit Italian:scendere (it) Japanese:降る (ja) ( ふる, furu ) ,降下 (ja) ( こうかする, kōka suru ) Mizo:tlà Norwegian:Bokmål:falle (no) ,dette (no) Nynorsk:falle falla dette detta Polish:padać (pl) Portuguese:cair (pt) Russian:па́дать (ru) impf ( pádatʹ ) ,упа́сть (ru) pf ( upástʹ ) ,снижа́ться (ru) impf ( snižátʹsja ) ,сни́зиться (ru) pf ( snízitʹsja ) Sotho:wa (st) Spanish:descender (es) Swedish:falla (sv) Tamil:விழு (ta) ( viḻu ) ,பெய் (ta) ( pey ) ( of rain, snow etc. ) Tibetan:འཛག ( 'dzag ) ,མར་འབབ ( mar 'bab ) ,ཐུར་འབབ ( thur 'bab ) Ukrainian:па́дати ( pádaty ) ,зни́жуватися impf ( znýžuvatysja ) ,зни́зитися pf ( znýzytysja ) Uzbek:tushmoq (uz) Vietnamese:xuống (vi) Welsh:syrthio (cy) Yiddish:פֿאַלן ( faln )
be brought to earth or be overthrown
collapse; be overthrown or defeated
die
Arabic:سَقَطَ (ar) ( saqaṭa ) Armenian:ընկնել (hy) ( ənknel ) Bashkir:һәләк булыу ( hələk bulıw ) Bulgarian:падам (bg) ( padam ) Danish:falde (da) Faroese:fella Finnish:kaatua (fi) French:mourir (fr) German:fallen (de) Greek:πέφτω (el) ( péfto ) Hungarian:elhullik (hu) ,elesik (hu) Ingrian:sortua sortaa Italian:cadere (it) ,morire (it) Japanese:倒れる (ja) ( たおれる, taoreru ) ,斃れる (ja) ( たおれる, taoreru ) Latin:cadō (la) Mizo:boral Polish:polegnąć Portuguese:tombar (pt) Russian:пасть (ru) pf ( pastʹ ) ,погиба́ть (ru) impf ( pogibátʹ ) ,поги́бнуть (ru) pf ( pogíbnutʹ ) Spanish:morir (es) Swedish:stupa (sv) Ukrainian:ги́нути impf ( hýnuty ) ,заги́нути pf ( zahýnuty ) ,поляга́ти impf ( poljaháty ) ( in battle ) ,полягти́ pf ( poljahtý )
10. (intransitive) to become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before
—see also lapse Translations to be checked
fall (countable anduncountable plural falls
Fall (season) in the United StatesThe act of moving to alower position under the effect of gravity.thefall of the snow
thefall of the water
thefall of the leaf A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.1908 [ illiam] B[ lair] M[ orton] Ferguson, chapter I, inZollenstein , New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company ,→OCLC “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewellfall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
( chiefly Canada ,US , archaic in Britain ) leaves typically fall from the trees;autumn ; the season of the year between the autumnalequinox and the wintersolstice .[from 16th c.] 1816 A Vocabulary, or Collection of Words Which Have Been Supposed to Be Peculiar to the United States of America :A friend has pointed out to me the following remark on this word: "In North America the season in which this [the fall of the leaf] takes place, derives its name from that circumstance, and instead of autumn is universally called thefall ." [brackets in original]
Aloss ofgreatness orstatus .thefall of Rome
That which falls or cascades.2010 Witch Wolf :Afall of hair tumbled down one side of her body like a veil.
2011 The Lady of Bolton Hill [3] 162 :The heat of Daniel's gaze was nearly incendiary as he took in thefall of her hair spilling across her shoulders and down to her elbows.
The height of that which falls or cascades. ( sports ) ( cricket , of awicket ) batsman beingout .( curling ) stones thrown into an area todrift in a given direction.( wrestling ) pinned to themat .Ahairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.2004 Hair Care: An Illustrated Dermatologic Handbook ,→ISBN 202 :Female patients with localized hair loss on the top of scalp could select afall or a demiwig to camouflage crown and anterior scalp loss.
( informal , US ) He set up his rival to take thefall .
( nautical ) tackle to which thepower is applied inhoisting (usu. plural).Have the goodness to secure thefalls of the mizzen halyards.
1919 Joseph Conrad ,Typhoon :"[...] with one overhauledfall flying and an iron-bound block capering in the air."
An oldScots unit of measure equal to sixells . A short, flexible piece ofleather forming part of abullwhip , placed between thethong and thecracker .1945 Strangers on the Ophir , Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page113 :Brooks fitted a newfall to his whip.
Thelid , on apiano , that covers thekeyboard . The phrasehave a fall fall over fall down [ 1] [ 2] ( antonym(s) of “ act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity ” ) : ascent rise ( antonym(s) of “ reduction ” ) : increase rise ( antonym(s) of “ loss of greatness or status ” ) : ascent rise accidental fall airfall angle of fall ashfall ash fall backfall bergfall be riding for a fall best-of-three-falls match block and fall break a fall breakfall break-fall break one's fall brothfall byfall catfall center of falls centre of falls chainfall cliff fall cloudfall crossfall darkfall deadfall deadfall dead-fall dead fall dewfall dew-fall dirtfall dogfall dog-fall downfall dustfall earthfall evenfall even-fall fall-and-rise phenomenon fall and tackle fall armyworm fall-back fall-block fall block fall-blooming fallboard fall-board fall break fall-breaker fall-bridge fall cankerworm Fall Classic fall-cloud fall colors ( US ) Fall Creek fall dandelion fall-door fall duck fall dwindle disease fall equinox fall factor fallfish fall-fish fall foliage fall-forward fall from grace fall front fall-front desk fall-guy fall guy fall herring fall-iron door fallish fall-leaf fall-less fall-like fall-line fall line fall money fall of day fall of man Fall of Man fall of shot fall of the leaf fall of the perch fall of wicket fall orange fallout fall overturn fall-pipe fall-pippin fall plate fall rate fallrate fall-rise Fall River fall-rope fall-run fish falls Falls-to-Falls Corridor fallstreak fall supper fall-through falltide falltime fall time fall-trap fall turnover fall-way fallway fallwear fall webworm fall-wind fall wind fall-window fall woman fall-wood fally fall zone firefall fish fall flagfall fogfall food fall footfall foot-fall forcefall freefall free fall fruit fall fussefall give a fall grainfall hailfall hairfall icefall ice-fall ice fall infall iron fall jawfall jaw-fall landfall lavafall law-fall leaffall leaf-fall litterfall mainfall midfall mid-fall misfall mistfall moonfall mouse-fall mousefall near-fall nearfall nightfall no fall zone nutfall offal onfall outfall overfall parachute landing fall penny fall pinfall pitfall planetfall pratfall prat-fall pratt-fall prefall pressure-fall center pressure-fall centre pride comes before a fall pride goes before a fall pride goeth before a fall proudfall rainfall rat-fall ride for a fall rises and falls rockfall rock fall roof fall root-fall sandfall shake a fall shortfall shout-and-fall slip and fall smokefall snowfall snow-fall spatfall speck falls starfall stiff board fall stonefall sunfall Swedish fall tackle fall take a fall take a fall out of take the fall technical fall terminal fall velocity theFall of Baghdad theFall of Constantinople theFall of France theFall of Saigon theFall of the Roman Empire , theFall of Rome threadfall throughfall tidefall toe drain and outfall tofall trad fall trapfall trap-fall treefall trust fall try a fall two-out-of-three-falls match underfall waterfall whale fall whalefall windfall withfall wrestle a fall wrist-fall zipper fall act of moving in gas or vacuum under the effect of gravity from a point to a lower point
Albanian:bie (sq) Arabic:سُقُوط m ( suqūṭ ) ,هُوِيّ m ( huwiyy ) ,وُقُوع m ( wuqūʕ ) Gulf Arabic:طيحة ( ṭēḥa ) Hijazi Arabic:طيحة f ( ṭēḥa ) Armenian:անկում (hy) ( ankum ) Aromanian:cãdeare f Bashkir:төшөү ( töşöw ) Belarusian:падзенне n ( padzjennje ) Bulgarian:падане (bg) n ( padane ) Catalan:caiguda (ca) f Chinese:Cantonese:落下 ( lok6 haa6 ) Literary Chinese:跕 ( tiē ) 蹎 ( diān ) Mandarin:落下 (zh) ( luòxià ) Czech:pád (cs) m Danish:fald n Dutch:val (nl) m Esperanto:falo (eo) Estonian:kukkumine Faroese:fall (fo) n Finnish:putoaminen (fi) French:chute (fr) f Friulian:cjadude f Galician:caída (gl) f Gallurese:trapintàda German:Fall (de) m Absturz (de) m Gothic:𐌳𐍂𐌿𐍃 m ( drus ) Greek:πτώση (el) f ( ptósi ) Guarani:Mbya Guarani:'aa Hungarian:zuhanás (hu) ,esés (hu) Interlingua:cadita (ia) Italian:caduta (it) f Japanese:落下 (ja) ( rakka ) Kurdish:Central Kurdish:کەوتن ( kewtin ) ,بەربوون ( berbûn ) Northern Kurdish:ketin (ku) f keftin (ku) f Latin:casus (la) m lapsus m Macedonian:пад m ( pad ) Malay:kejatuhan Miwok:Central Sierra Miwok:walí·ŋ- Norwegian:fall (no) n Occitan:casuda (oc) f Old English:hryre m fiell Polish:spadek (pl) m inan spadanie (pl) n Portuguese:queda (pt) f Romanian:cădere (ro) f Russian:паде́ние (ru) n ( padénije ) Sardinian:Logudorese:istrampàda Sassarese:caggiùda tamburàda trabintàda Serbo-Croatian:pad (sh) m Slovene:padec (sl) m Spanish:caída (es) f matada (es) f ( violent, colloquial ) Swahili:anguko (sw) ,maanguko Swedish:fall (sv) n Telugu:పాటు (te) ( pāṭu ) Ukrainian:паді́ння n ( padínnja ) Welsh:cwymp m
a period of decline before the end
loss of greatness or status
cricket: the act of a batsman being out
Translations to be checked
Perhaps from the north-eastern Scottish pronunciation ofwhale
fall
( nautical ) whale issighted , orharpooned .fall (plural falls
( nautical ) chasing of ahunted whale .Borrowed fromOttoman Turkish فال ( fal ,“ fortune-telling ” ) , fromArabic فَأْل ( faʔl ,“ omen ” ) .[ 1]
fall m plural falle definite falli definite plural fallet
fortune-telling Terms derived from the noun "fall"
^ Topalli, Kolec (2017 ), “fall ”, inFjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language 464-465 fall
bad Deverbal fromfallir
fall m plural falls
cliff FromOld Norse fall falla ( “ to fall ” ) . The grammatical sense is a calque of Latincasus
fall n genitive singular fals plural føll
fall,drop case ( linguistics ) fall
singular imperative offallen ( colloquial ) first-person singular present offallen FromOld Norse fall falla ( “ to fall ” ) . The grammatical sense is a calque of Latincasus
fall n genitive singular falls nominative plural föll
fall drop ( grammar ) case ( computing , programming ) function ;( subprogram, usually with formal parameters, returning a data value when called ) Synonym: fallstefja indefinite accusative singular offall fall n definite singular fallet indefinite plural fall definite plural falla or fallene
afall case ifall ―in case i allefall ―in any case fall
imperative offalle “fall” inThe Bokmål Dictionary .fall n definite singular fallet indefinite plural fall definite plural falla
afall case fall
past tense offalle imperative offalle “fall” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .faill ( dative for nominative ) FromProto-Celtic *walsā Welsh gwall Breton gwall [ 1]
fall f genitive faille nominative plural falla
neglect Initial mutations of a following adjective:
H = triggers aspirationL = triggers lenitionN = triggers nasalizationMutation offall radical lenition nasalization fall ḟall fall pronounced with /β̃-/
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
^ Stifter, David (2023 ), “The rise of gemination in Celtic”, inOpen Research Europe [1] 24 ,→DOI FromOld Norse fall falla ( “ to fall ” ) . The grammatical sense is a calque of Latincasus
fall n
afall ( the act of falling ) a fall, loss of greatness or wealth, abankruptcy Romarriketsuppgång ochfall ―the rise andfall of the Roman empire aslope , awaterfall , the height of a slope or waterfallfallet är omgivet av skogthe fall is surrounded by forest fallet är sjutton meterthe water falls seventeen metres; the decline is seventeen metres a (legal)case i allafall ―anyhow (in all cases) i annatfall ―otherwise (in another case) i såfall ―if so (in such a case) i vilketfall som helst ―in any case i vartfall ―in any case fall
imperative offalla 
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