falla

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (feminine) constructions of inflammable materials, based in figures that are caricatures (the ninots) that are installed in certain Valencian municipalities and are burned to ashes the day of Saint Joseph
2. (feminine) the holidays around these constructions
3. (feminine) the associations or organizations around these constructions
4. (feminine) fire, bonfire

Verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) inflection of fallar:
2. (form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of fallar:

fallar

1. (transitive) to miss (to fail to hit)
2. (intransitive) to fail (to cease to operate correctly)
3. (transitive) to let down (to disappoint)

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Conceptos

falla

error

fallo

falta

Sinónimos

culpa

errada

error

falta

manca

equivocació

Traducciones

fault

falha

faute

faglia

break

λάθος

غلط

fracture

faulting

mistake

shift

geological fault

casser

έλλειψη

Pronunciado como (IPA)

[ˈfa.ʎə]

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de latín: facula

In summary

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *facla, contracted form of Latin facula, diminutive of fax (“torch”). Compare the borrowed doublet fàcula.