faula

See also: faulă

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin fābula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfaw.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfaw.la]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

faula f (plural faules)

1. fable

   Faules d'Isop ― Aesop's Fables

   • 2016 October, “'Un monstre ve a veure'm': contes animats 'made in Barcelona'”, in El Periódico‎^[1]:

     De fet, Un monstre em ve a veure és una faula sobre el poder de la imaginació per sobreviure.

     In fact, A Monster Calls is a fable about the survival of the power of the imagination.

2. falsehood, gossip

   Synonyms: invenció, mentidera

Related terms

• fabulista
• fabulós

Further reading

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “faula”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “faula”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “faula”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Occitan

Alternative forms

• fabla

Etymology

From Latin fābula.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

  (file)

Noun

faula f (plural faulas)

1. fable

Portuguese

Verb

faula

1. inflection of faular:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative