falla

Meaning

Noun

1. (feminine) a hole, especially a leak (from a wall or a ship's keel)
2. (broadly, feminine, figuratively) a reason or source of loss (of money, resources, etc.)
3. (feminine) to retreat on a front of a battle, allowing enemy penetration into one's territory
4. (feminine) a defect in a fabric, due to an error in the weaving process

Verb

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

Concepts

leak

burst

breach

fault

gap

trouble

breakdown

breakthrough

Synonyms

fessura

crepa

breccia

dispersione

foro

apertura

infiltrazione

fuga

✈️

perdita

Translations

Leck

brecha

brèche

διαρροή

voie d’eau

fuite

bretxa

fuga

fenda

fissura

lek

brecha

vazamento

lacune

vía de agua

Hyphenated as

fàl‧la

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfal.la/

Etymology

Deverbal from fallare + -a.