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falla

Pronunciation: [ˈfa.ʎə]

“falla” is a Catalan word. Its 6 meanings in English:

noun

  1. 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. the holidays around these constructions
  3. the associations or organizations around these constructions
  4. fire, bonfire
  5. fault or lack
  6. fault

In Catalan

  1. Manat de branques, o altres matèries combustibles, que s’encenen per calar foc o com a petita torxa.
  2. Foguera.
  3. Cadafal amb figures que es crema en poblacions valencianes per les festes de Sant Josep.
  4. Falta d’una cosa necessària.
  5. Fractura de l’escorça terrestre amb un desplaçament relatiu de roca.

Etymology

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

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