falar

Verb

1. (intransitive) to speak; to talk (to say words out loud)
2. (broadly) to communicate by any means
3. (Brazil, transitive) to say something
4. (intransitive) to talk
5. (Brazil, transitive) to tell (to convey by speech)
6. (intransitive) to talk
7. (intransitive) to speak ill
8. (transitive) to speak (to be able to communicate in a language)

Noun

a cant, dialect or regional language

Pronounced as (IPA)

/faˈla(ʁ)/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: fabulor

Cognate with Galician: falar

Cognate with Spanish: hablar

In summary

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese falar, from Latin fābulārī (“chat, converse”). Doublet of fabular, which was borrowed from Latin. Compare Galician falar, Spanish hablar.

Concepts

speak

🗣️

talk

🗣️

say

🗣️

tell

chat

utter

discuss

pronounce

communicate

enunciate

talk about

express

convey

report

converse

treat

discourse

dissert

drone

drone on

enounce

evince

express oneself

frankly

hammer out

handle

herald

impart

inform

lecture

manifest

mouth

notify

plow

propose

put

render

show

somebody

sound out

speak to

state

story

talk away

talk of

talk out

talk over

thrash out

to

understate

Synonyms

dizer

🗣️

pronunciar

conversar

🗣️

discursar

conversar

🗣️

proferir

fala

história

manifestar

representar

tratar

estar grávida

palestrar

francamente

falar com

língua

👅

verbalizar

comunicar

contar

discutir

expressar

exprimir

Translations

parler

🗣️

hablar

🗣️

sprechen

🗣️

parlare

🗣️

spreken

🗣️

parlar

🗣️

μιλώ

praten

🗣️

reden

🗣️

mówić

dire

🗣️

dire

konuşmak

🗣️

loquor

🗣️

sagen

🗣️

Sentences

Pare de falar o tempo todo !

Stop talking all the time!

Mas qual é o uso de falar ?

But what is the use of talking?

Mesmo que as ovelhas não me ensinassem a falar árabe .

Even if the sheep didn't teach me to speak Arabic.