falla

Meaning

Noun

1. (feminine) flaw
2. (feminine) failure
3. (feminine) outage, such as a blackout
4. (feminine) fault

Verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) inflection of fallar:
2. (form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of fallar:
3. (first-person, form-of, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person) inflection of fallir:
4. (form-of, imperative, singular, third-person) inflection of fallir:

fallar

1. (transitive) to fail
2. (intransitive) to crash or break down (a computer)
3. (impersonal, intransitive) to let down (to disappoint)
4. to rule, give (a verdict or sentence)

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fallir

1. (archaic) to err
2. (Venezuela, intransitive) to fail, to go bankrupt

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Concepts

fault

failure

defect

flaw

break

damage

dud

error

failing

gap

hole

🕳️

loophole

misfire

rift

rupture

shift

slip

weakness

stop

🛑

break dancing

blowout

blunder

breach

breaking off

Synonyms

defecto

fallo

debilidad

error

laguna

apagón

escapatoria

imperfección

mella

quebrantamiento

raja

tacha

del fa

resquicio legal

farallón

obra incompleta

depeçage

suspenso

avería

cagada

💩

cordillera

Translations

Fehler

défaut

falha

difetto

faille

defeito

colpa

faute

errore

errada

faglia

culpa

Versagen

caduta

Bruch

Hyphenated as

fa‧lla

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfaʝa/

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan: falla

Borrowed from French: faille

In summary

Likely from Catalan falla, with the geological sense from French faille.