فلس

Arabic

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Aramaic פֵילַס (filas) / ܦܠܣ / פּוּלְסָא (fuləsā) / ܦܘܽܠܣܴܐ (fuləsā), from Ancient Greek φόλλις (phóllis), from Latin follis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fils/
  • IPA(key): /fuls/
  • IPA(key): /fals/

Noun

فِلْس or فُلْس or فَلْس (fils or fuls or fals) m (plural فُلُوس (fulūs) or أَفْلُس (ʔaflus))

  1. a small-denomination coin, penny
  2. (informal, in the plural) money, mazuma, gwop
Declension
Derived terms
  • فَلَّسَ (fallasa, to bankrupt)
  • أَفْلَسَ (ʔaflasa, to become bankrupt)
  • فَلَاسَة (falāsa, bankruptcy)
Descendants
  • Egyptian Arabic: فلوس (flūs)
  • Gulf Arabic: فلوس (flūs), فلس (fils)
  • Hijazi Arabic: فلوس (fulūs, filūs)
  • Maltese: flus
  • Moroccan Arabic: فلوس (flūs), فلس (fals)
  • English: fils, fals
  • French: flouze
  • Indonesian: fulus
  • Swahili: fulusi
  • Ottoman Turkish: فلس (fels)

Etymology 2

Denominal verb of فِلْس (fils).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fa.la.sa/

Verb

فَلَّسَ (fallasa) II, non-past يُفَلِّسُ‎ (yufallisu)

  1. to bankrupt, to make broke, to ruin, to render out of pennies
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φολίς (pholís).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fals/

Noun

فَلْس (fals) m (plural فُلُوس (fulūs))

  1. scale of a fish
Declension
Descendants

References

  • pls”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), فلس”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 278
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 192
  • Freytag, Georg (1835), فلس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 369
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), فلس”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 629–630
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), فلس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2440
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), فلس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 979–980

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Arabic فَلْس (fals, a kind of coin).

Noun

فلس (fels) (plural فلوس)

  1. mite, very small coin worth about the twentieth part of a penny sterling

Etymology 2

From Arabic فَلْس (fals, scale).

Noun

فلس (fels) (plural فلوس)

  1. scale of a fish, a small, flat and hard piece of keratin
  2. any scale-like thing, as a spangle, etc.
  3. small boss on a compound astrolabe

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic فَلْس (fals), from Ancient Greek φολίς (pholís).

Pronunciation

Noun

Dari فلس
Iranian Persian
Tajik фалс (fals)

فلس (fals) (plural فلس‌ها (fals-hâ))

  1. flake, lamination, scale
    The Bible, Acts 9:18:
    در ساعت از چشمان او چیزی مثل فلس افتاده، بینایی یافت و برخاسته، تعمید گرفت
    At that instant something like a scale fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized
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