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• Received-Pronunciation: /fɔːls/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /fɒls/
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• London: /fɔːls/ Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• General-American: /fɔls/ without the cot–caught merger
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• General-American, cot-caught-merger, dialectal: /fɑls/ of Canada
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• Canada, dialectal: /fɒls/ of the US
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /fɔls/
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• rhymes with -ɔːls
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• CMU ARPABET: F AO1 L S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English false, fals, from Old English fals (“false; counterfeit; fraudulent; wrong; mistaken”), from Latin falsus (“counterfeit, false; falsehood”), perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman and Old French fals, faus. Compare Scots fals, false, Saterland Frisian falsk, German falsch, Dutch vals, Swedish and Danish falsk; all from Latin falsus. Displaced native Middle English les, lese, from Old English lēas (“false”); See lease, leasing. Doublet of faux. The verb is from Middle English falsen, falsien, from Old French falser, from Latin falsō (“falsify”), itself also from falsus; compare French fausser (“to falsify, to distort”).

256 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: زَائِف (zāʔif) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Arabic: بَاطِل (bāṭil) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Arabic: كَاذِب (kāḏib) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Arabic: فلصو (falsu) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Armenian: կեղծ (keġc) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Armenian: սխալ (sxal) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Assamese: মিছা (misa) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Assamese: ভুৱা (bhua) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Asturian: falsu — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Basque: faltsu — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Breton: gaou — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Bulgarian: грешен (grešen) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Catalan: fals — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Catalan: incorrecte — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Chinese Mandarin: 假 (jiǎ) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Chinese Mandarin: 虛偽 /虚伪 (xūwěi) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Chinese Mandarin: 虛假 /虚假 (xūjiǎ) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Cornish: gaw — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Crimean Tatar: yañlış — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Czech: nepravdivý — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Dalmatian: fuals — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Danish: falsk — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Danish: usand — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Dutch: onwaar — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Dutch: vals — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Dutch: fout — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Dutch: onjuist — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Esperanto: malvera — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Esperanto: nevera — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Esperanto: falsa — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Finnish: valheellinen — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Finnish: epätosi — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Finnish: väärä — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Finnish: vale- — untrue, not factual, wrong
• French: faux — untrue, not factual, wrong
• French: incorrect — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Galician: falso — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Georgian: ცრუ (cru) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Georgian: ტყუილი (ṭq̇uili) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• German: falsch — untrue, not factual, wrong
• German: unwahr — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Greek: ψευδής (psevdís) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Ancient Greek: ψευδής (pseudḗs) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Haitian Creole: fo — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Hebrew: שקרי (shikrí) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Hebrew: לא נכון (ló nakhón) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Hindi: झूठा (jhūṭhā) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Hindi: खोटा (khoṭā) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Hungarian: hamis — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Icelandic: rangur — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Icelandic: ósannur — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Ido: falsa — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Indonesian: salah — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Ingrian: perätöin — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Interlingua: false — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Irish: bréagach — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Irish: bréige — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Italian: falso — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Italian: errato — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Italian: bugiardo — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Japanese: 偽 (nise) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Japanese: 虚偽 (kyogi) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Korean: 거짓 (geojit) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Kyrgyz: жаңылыш (jaŋılış) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Kyrgyz: ката (kata) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Kyrgyz: жасалма (jasalma) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Kyrgyz: арамза (aramza) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Latin: falsus — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Latin: mendāx — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Latvian: nepareizs — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Latvian: kļūdains — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Lithuanian: klaidingas — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Lithuanian: neteisingas — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Malay: salah — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Māori: patē — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Māori: parau — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Māori: horihori — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Māori: meho — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Māori: tipatipa — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Māori: teka — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Māori: hāwatewate — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Māori: kēā — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Mauritian Creole: fos — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Norman: faux — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Occitan: fals — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Old English: lēas — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Persian: غلط (ġalat) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Plautdietsch: faulsch — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Polish: fałszywy — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Polish: nieprawdziwy — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Polish: błędny — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Portuguese: falso — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Portuguese: errado — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Romanian: fals — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Romanian: neadevăr — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Russian: фальши́вый (falʹšívyj) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Russian: ло́жный (lóžnyj) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Russian: непра́вильный (neprávilʹnyj) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Sanskrit: असत् (ásat) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Sanskrit: असत्य (asatya) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Sanskrit: अशुद्ध (aśuddha) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Sanskrit: आसत् (ā́sat) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Sardinian: fàlsu — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Scottish Gaelic: breugach — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Scottish Gaelic: fuadain — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Spanish: falso — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Spanish: sacha — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Spanish: ful — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Swedish: falsk — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Swedish: osann — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Sylheti: ꠝꠤꠍꠣ (misá) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Turkish: yanlış — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Turkish: yalan — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Ottoman Turkish: یالان (yalan) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Ukrainian: неправди́вий (nepravdývyj) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Ukrainian: хи́бний (xýbnyj) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Urdu: جھوٹھا (jhūṭhā) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Urdu: غلط (ġalat) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Urdu: کھوٹا (khōṭā) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Vietnamese: sai — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Volapük: dobik — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Volapük: neveratik — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Welsh: anwir — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Welsh: anghywir — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Welsh: ffug — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Welsh: gau — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Yiddish: פֿאַלש (falsh) — untrue, not factual, wrong
• Finnish: perusteeton — based on factually incorrect premises
• Finnish: väärä — based on factually incorrect premises
• Ido: falsa — based on factually incorrect premises
• Māori: hewa — based on factually incorrect premises
• Plautdietsch: faulsch — based on factually incorrect premises
• Serbo-Croatian: kriv — based on factually incorrect premises
• Serbo-Croatian: pogrešan — based on factually incorrect premises
• Ottoman Turkish: یالان (yalan) — based on factually incorrect premises
• Armenian: կեղծ (keġc) — spurious, artificial
• Asturian: falsu — spurious, artificial
• Bulgarian: изкуствен (izkustven) — spurious, artificial
• Bulgarian: фалшив (falšiv) — spurious, artificial
• Catalan: fals — spurious, artificial
• Catalan: postís — spurious, artificial
• Catalan: artificial — spurious, artificial
• Czech: falešný — spurious, artificial
• Czech: imitovaný — spurious, artificial
• Czech: nepravý — spurious, artificial
• Czech: umělý — spurious, artificial
• Danish: kunstig — spurious, artificial
• Dutch: vals — spurious, artificial
• Dutch: onecht — spurious, artificial
• Finnish: keinotekoinen — spurious, artificial
• Finnish: teko- — spurious, artificial
• Finnish: keino- — spurious, artificial
• Finnish: vale- — spurious, artificial
• French: faux — spurious, artificial
• French: artificiel — spurious, artificial
• Galician: falso — spurious, artificial
• Georgian: ყალბი (q̇albi) — spurious, artificial
• German: falsch — spurious, artificial
• German: unecht — spurious, artificial
• Greek: ψευδής (psevdís) — spurious, artificial
• Greek: πλαστός (plastós) — spurious, artificial
• Greek: κίβδηλος (kívdilos) — spurious, artificial
• Greek: νόθος (nóthos) — spurious, artificial
• Ancient Greek: πλαστός (plastós) — spurious, artificial
• Hebrew: מזוייף (mezuyáf) — spurious, artificial
• Hebrew: תותב (totáv) — spurious, artificial
• Hebrew: תותבת (totévet) — spurious, artificial
• Hebrew: מזוייפת (mezuyefet) — spurious, artificial
• Hebrew: מזויפים (mezuyafim) — spurious, artificial
• Hebrew: מזויפות (mezuyafot) — spurious, artificial
• Hebrew: מלאכותי (mel'akhuti) — spurious, artificial
• Hebrew: מלאכותית (mel'akhutit) — spurious, artificial
• Hebrew: מלאכותיים (mel'akhutiyim) — spurious, artificial
• Hebrew: מלאכותיות (mel'akhutiyot) — spurious, artificial
• Hungarian: hamis — spurious, artificial
• Hungarian: mű- — spurious, artificial
• Ido: falsa — spurious, artificial
• Indonesian: buatan — spurious, artificial
• Interlingua: false — spurious, artificial
• Irish: bréag- — spurious, artificial
• Irish: bréagach — spurious, artificial
• Irish: bréige — spurious, artificial
• Irish: falsa — spurious, artificial
• Italian: posticcio — spurious, artificial
• Italian: finto — spurious, artificial
• Latin: fictus — spurious, artificial
• Latvian: viltots — spurious, artificial
• Latvian: mākslīgs — spurious, artificial
• Lithuanian: dirbtinis — spurious, artificial
• Lithuanian: netikras — spurious, artificial
• Malay: palsu — spurious, artificial
• Polish: sztuczny — spurious, artificial
• Portuguese: falso — spurious, artificial
• Portuguese: artificial — spurious, artificial
• Romanian: fals — spurious, artificial
• Romanian: artificial — spurious, artificial
• Romanian: contrafăcut — spurious, artificial
• Scottish Gaelic: breugach — spurious, artificial
• Scottish Gaelic: meallta — spurious, artificial
• Scottish Gaelic: mealltach — spurious, artificial
• Scottish Gaelic: fuadain — spurious, artificial
• Serbo-Croatian: lažan — spurious, artificial
• Spanish: postizo — spurious, artificial
• Swedish: konstgjord — spurious, artificial
• Turkish: yapay — spurious, artificial
• Turkish: sahte — spurious, artificial
• Ottoman Turkish: یالان (yalan) — spurious, artificial
• Ottoman Turkish: یالانجی (yalancı) — spurious, artificial
• Ottoman Turkish: ساخته (sahte) — spurious, artificial
• Bulgarian: неверен (neveren) — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Catalan: fals — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Dutch: onwaar — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Dutch: vals — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Finnish: epätosi — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• French: faux — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• German: falsch — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Hebrew: שקרי (shikrí) — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Hungarian: hamis — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Ido: falsa — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Irish: bréagach — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Italian: falso — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Japanese: 偽 (gi) — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Norman: faux — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Portuguese: falso — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Romanian: fals — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Russian: ложь (ložʹ) — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Serbo-Croatian: netočan — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Spanish: falso — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Swedish: falskt — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Turkish: yanlış — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Ukrainian: хи́ба (xýba) — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Vietnamese: sai — state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result
• Arabic: كَاذِب (kāḏib) — uttering falsehood
• Finnish: epärehellinen — uttering falsehood
• Hungarian: hamis — uttering falsehood
• Finnish: petollinen — not faithful or loyal
• Finnish: epälojaali — not faithful or loyal
• Hungarian: hűtlen — not faithful or loyal
• Hungarian: hamis — not faithful or loyal
• Serbo-Croatian: lažan — not faithful or loyal
• Finnish: virheellinen — not well founded, erroneous
• Finnish: väärä — not well founded, erroneous
• Finnish: kelvoton — not well founded, erroneous
• Hungarian: hamis — not well founded, erroneous
• Ido: falsa — not well founded, erroneous
• Māori: mākiri — not well founded, erroneous
• Serbo-Croatian: pogrešan — not well founded, erroneous
• Serbo-Croatian: kriv — not well founded, erroneous
• Finnish: vale- — not essential or permanent
• Finnish: väliaikainen — not essential or permanent
• Hungarian: ál- — not essential or permanent
• Finnish: epävireinen — music: out of tune
• Finnish: falski — music: out of tune
• Hungarian: hamis — music: out of tune
• Serbo-Croatian: falš — music: out of tune
• Swedish: falskt — music: out of tune