facade

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• /fəˈsɑ(ː)d/
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• rhymes with -ɑːd
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• obsolete: /fəˈseɪd/
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• CMU ARPABET: F AH0 S AA1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from French façade, from Italian facciata, a derivation of faccia (“front”), from Latin faciēs (“face”); compare face.

106 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: وَاجِهَة (wājiha) — face of a building
• Armenian: ճակատ (čakat) — face of a building
• Azerbaijani: fasad — face of a building
• Basque: fatxada — face of a building
• Belarusian: фаса́д (fasád) — face of a building
• Central Bikol: atubangan — face of a building
• Central Bikol: patsada — face of a building
• Bulgarian: фаса́да (fasáda) — face of a building
• Catalan: façana — face of a building
• Catalan: fatxada — face of a building
• Catalan: frontera — face of a building
• Chinese Mandarin: 正面 (zhèngmiàn) — face of a building
• Chinese Mandarin: 立面 (lìmiàn) — face of a building
• Chinese Mandarin: 外立面 (wàilìmiàn) — face of a building
• Czech: fasáda — face of a building
• Danish: facade — face of a building
• Dutch: gevel — face of a building
• Dutch: façade — face of a building
• Esperanto: fasado — face of a building
• Estonian: fassaad — face of a building
• Finnish: julkisivu — face of a building
• French: façade — face of a building
• German: Fassade — face of a building
• Greek: πρόσοψη (prósopsi) — face of a building
• Hebrew: חֲזִית (khazít) — face of a building
• Hungarian: oromzat — face of a building
• Hungarian: homlokzat — face of a building
• Ido: fasado — face of a building
• Indonesian: fasad — face of a building
• Indonesian: muka bangunan — face of a building
• Istriot: fassada — face of a building
• Italian: facciata — face of a building
• Japanese: 正面 (shōmen) — face of a building
• Japanese: ファサード (fasādo) — face of a building
• Korean: 정면 (jeongmyeon) — face of a building
• Korean: 파사드 (pasadeu) — face of a building
• Latvian: fasāde — face of a building
• Lithuanian: fasadas — face of a building
• Macedonian: фаса́да (fasáda) — face of a building
• Malay: muka bangunan — face of a building
• Norman: côtchiéthe — face of a building
• Norwegian Bokmål: fasade — face of a building
• Persian: نما (namâ) — face of a building
• Polish: fasada — face of a building
• Portuguese: fachada — face of a building
• Romanian: fațadă — face of a building
• Russian: фаса́д (fasád) — face of a building
• Serbo-Croatian: фаса́да — face of a building
• Serbo-Croatian: fasáda — face of a building
• Slovak: fasáda — face of a building
• Slovene: fasada — face of a building
• Slovene: pročelje — face of a building
• Lower Sorbian: fasada — face of a building
• Spanish: fachada — face of a building
• Spanish: frontispicio — face of a building
• Spanish: frontis — face of a building
• Swedish: fasad — face of a building
• Tagalog: dayag — face of a building
• Tagalog: karayagan — face of a building
• Turkish: cephe — face of a building
• Ukrainian: фаса́д (fasád) — face of a building
• Venetan: fasada — face of a building
• Venetan: façada — face of a building
• Walloon: divanteure — face of a building
• Finnish: julkisivu — front of anything
• Finnish: etupuoli — front of anything
• Finnish: prospekti — front of anything
• Greek: πρόσοψη (prósopsi) — front of anything
• Indonesian: depan hadapan — front of anything
• Indonesian: muka — front of anything
• Māori: kāinga kanohi — front of anything
• Polish: front — front of anything
• Spanish: frontispicio — front of anything
• Spanish: frontis — front of anything
• Catalan: façana — deceptive outward appearance
• Chinese Mandarin: 外觀 /外观 (wàiguān) — deceptive outward appearance
• Danish: facade — deceptive outward appearance
• Dutch: façade — deceptive outward appearance
• Finnish: julkisivu — deceptive outward appearance
• Finnish: kulissi — deceptive outward appearance
• French: façade — deceptive outward appearance
• German: Fassade — deceptive outward appearance
• Greek: πρόσοψη (prósopsi) — deceptive outward appearance
• Hebrew: פָסוֹן (fasón) — deceptive outward appearance
• Hebrew: פָסָדָה (fasáda) — deceptive outward appearance
• Hungarian: felszín — deceptive outward appearance
• Hungarian: külső — deceptive outward appearance
• Hungarian: látszat — deceptive outward appearance
• Hungarian: kirakat — deceptive outward appearance
• Hungarian: köntös — deceptive outward appearance
• Hungarian: külcsín — deceptive outward appearance
• Hungarian: külszín — deceptive outward appearance
• Hungarian: máz — deceptive outward appearance
• Indonesian: pencitraan — deceptive outward appearance
• Indonesian: tedeng aling-aling — deceptive outward appearance
• Italian: facciata — deceptive outward appearance
• Japanese: 外観 (gaikan) — deceptive outward appearance
• Malay: zahirnya — deceptive outward appearance
• Māori: kāinga kanohi — deceptive outward appearance
• Polish: fasada — deceptive outward appearance
• Polish: pozór — deceptive outward appearance
• Portuguese: fachada — deceptive outward appearance
• Russian: фаса́д (fasád) — deceptive outward appearance
• Russian: ши́рма (šírma) — deceptive outward appearance
• Spanish: fachada — deceptive outward appearance
• Swedish: fasad — deceptive outward appearance