firma

firma

1. third-person singular present indicative form of firmar
2. second-person singular imperative form of firmar

From Spanish firma.

fīrma

1. A signature.
   • 1586: testimony of Don Juan

     auh yn don diego de velasco ynic quineltilia huel ymatica quitlalia yn ifirma yhuã ytoca

     (But to verify it don Diego de Velasco with his very own hand places here his signature and name.)

   • 1645: sale of house and land by Agustín de Santiago to Juan Gómez Monteagudo, Spaniard, and wife

     ypanpa nican nictlallia nofirma

     (wherefore I set down here my signature)

   • 1720: confirmation of the status of fields belonging to Santa Elena

     ca nican tictlalia yn tofirma

     (Here we set down our signatures)

• Lockhart, James (1991) Nahuas and Spaniards: Postconquest Central Mexican History and Philology, Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 87, 100, 104

From Italian firma (“signature of a company”).

firma

1. firm (company)

   Synonym: şirket

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Borrowed from Italian firma.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɪrma]

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firma f

1. firm (business)

• korporace
• podnik
• společnost

• firma in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• firma in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Italian firma.

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firma f (plural firma's, diminutive firmaatje n)

1. a large-scale company, a firm

• bedrijf, zaak, handelsonderneming

• → Indonesian: firma

From Latin firmus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfirma]
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• Rhymes: -irma
• Hyphenation: fir‧ma

firma (accusative singular firman, plural firmaj, accusative plural firmajn)

1. firm (solid, fixed, or steadfast)

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firma (genitive firma, partitive firmat)

1. (business) firm, company

   Synonym: ettevõte

• firma in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik
• firma in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat
• firma in Raadik, M., editor (2018), Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, →ISBN
• firma in Sõnaveeb

From either English firm or German Firma, from Italian firma (“signature”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfirmɑ/, [ˈfirmɑ]
• Rhymes: -irmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): fir‧ma

firma

1. (informal) firm, company
2. (military slang, informal) the Finnish Defense Forces

• farmi

From Old Galician-Portuguese firma. Back-formation from firmar.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfiɾmɐ]

firma f (plural firmas)

1. signature

   Synonym: sinatura

2. firm, business

   Synonym: compañía

• firmar

• “firma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “firma” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “firma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “firma” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “firma” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Portuguese firmar-se.

firma

1. to stand

From Dutch firma, from Italian firma, from Latin firmāre, from firmus, from Proto-Italic *fermos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-mo-s (“holding”), from the root *dʰer- (“to hold”). Doublet of darma and derma.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɪrma]
• Hyphenation: fir‧ma

firma (first-person possessive firmaku, second-person possessive firmamu, third-person possessive firmanya)

1. (business) firm, general partnership.

• “firma” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Back-formation from firmare, from Latin firmāre, from firmus; cognates include English firm (adjective). Doublet of dharma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfir.ma/
• Rhymes: -irma
• Hyphenation: fìr‧ma

firma f (plural firme)

1. signature

• → Bulgarian: фи́рма (fírma)
• → Crimean Tatar: firma
• → Czech: firma
• → Dutch: firma
  • → Indonesian: firma
• → English: firm (noun)
• → Finnish: firma
• → Georgian: ფირმა (pirma)
• → German: Firma
  • → Romanian: firmă
  • → Turkish: firma
• → Macedonian: фирма (firma)
• → Northern Kurdish: fîrma
• → Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: firma
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: firma
• → Polish: firma
• → Portuguese: firma
• → Russian: фи́рма (fírma)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Latin: fȋrma
  • Cyrillic: фи̑рма
• → Swedish: firma

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

firma

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

• firmatario

• farmi

From Old English feorm (“rent, provision, supplies, feast”), from Proto-Germanic *fermō (“means of living, subsistence”), from Proto-Germanic *ferhuz (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“life, force, strength, tree”).

• ferma

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfir.ma/, [ˈfɪrmä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfir.ma/, [ˈfirmä]

firma f (genitive firmae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

1. tax, tribute
2. rent
3. farm

First-declension noun.

• firma burgi

• Old French: ferme
  • Middle French: ferme
    • French: ferme
      • → Romanian: fermă
  • → Middle English: ferme, farme, ferm, fyrme; feorme, veorme (in part)
    • English: farm
      • → Dutch: farm
      • → German: Farm
      • → Portuguese: farme, farma
      • → Yiddish: פֿאַרם‎ (farm)
    • Scots: ferm
    • → Welsh: fferm
• Occitan: ferma

• firma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to enjoy good health: bona (firma, prospera) valetudine esse or uti (vid. sect. VI. 8., note uti...)
    
  • a good constitution: firma corporis constitutio or affectio
    

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• firma: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfir.ma/, [ˈfɪrmä]
• firma: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfir.ma/, [ˈfirmä]
• firmā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfir.maː/, [ˈfɪrmäː]
• firmā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfir.ma/, [ˈfirmä]

firma

1. inflection of firmus:
   1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
   2. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

firmā

1. ablative feminine singular of firmus

From Latin firmāre, via Italian firma.

firma n (definite singular firmaet, indefinite plural firma or firmaer, definite plural firmaene)

1. a company (business), a firm

• selskap

• advokatfirma
• firmabil

• “firma” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “firma” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Latin firmāre, via Italian firma.

firma n (definite singular firmaet, indefinite plural firma, definite plural firmaa)

1. a company (business), a firm

• selskap

• advokatfirma
• firmabil

• “firma” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Italian firma, from Latin firmāre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfir.ma/

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• Rhymes: -irma
• Syllabification: fir‧ma

firma f

1. company (in legal context, a corporation)

• firma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• firma in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Hyphenation: fir‧ma

From Italian firma (“signature”), from Latin firmāre (“to make firm, strengthen, fortify”).

firma f (plural firmas)

1. company

   Synonyms: empresa, companhia

2. (law) signature

   Synonyms: assinatura, rubrica

• firmar
• confirmar

firma

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

firma f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of firmă

From Italian firma (“signature”), from Latin firmāre (“to make firm, strengthen, fortify”).

• IPA^(key): /fîːrma/
• Hyphenation: fir‧ma

fȋrma f (Cyrillic spelling фи̑рма)

1. firm, company

• poduzéće / preduzéće
• kompànija
• tvȑtka

From firmar (“to sign”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiɾma/ [ˈfiɾ.ma]

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• Rhymes: -iɾma
• Syllabification: fir‧ma

firma f (plural firmas)

1. signature
2. seal
3. (business) company

   Synonym: empresa

• → Classical Nahuatl: fīrma
• → Tagalog: pirma
• → Yogad: firma
• → Zoogocho Zapotec: firm

• autógrafo
• rúbrica

firma

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

• “firma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Italian firma.

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firma c

1. a firm, a company

• enskild firma

From German firma.

firma (definite accusative firmayı, plural firmalar)

1. firm

Borrowed from Spanish firma.

firma

1. signature