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• /fæks/
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• homophone: facts (informal US and Canada pronunciation)
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• rhymes with -æks
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Formed with -x from facts; the pronunciation of facts and fax is identical in certain varieties of English.

From Middle English fax, from Old English feax (“hair, head of hair”), from Proto-West Germanic *fahs, from Proto-Germanic *fahsą (“hair, mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *poḱsom (“hair”, literally “that which is combed, shorn, or plucked”), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to comb, shear, pluck”). Cognate with Dutch vas (“headhair”), German Fachs (“head-hair”), Norwegian faks (“mane”), Icelandic fax (“mane”), Sanskrit पक्ष्मन् (pákṣman, “eyelash, hair, filament”).

Clipping of facsimile, first attested 1979.

127 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: faks — document transmitted by telephone
• Arabic: فَاكْس (fāks) — document transmitted by telephone
• Armenian: ֆաքս (fakʻs) — document transmitted by telephone
• Armenian: հեռապատճեն (heṙapatčen) — document transmitted by telephone
• Azerbaijani: faks — document transmitted by telephone
• Belarusian: факс (faks) — document transmitted by telephone
• Bengali: ফ্যাক্স (phêkśo) — document transmitted by telephone
• Bulgarian: факс (faks) — document transmitted by telephone
• Burmese: ပုံတူညီသော (pumtu-nyisau:) — document transmitted by telephone
• Burmese: ဖက်စ် (hpakc) — document transmitted by telephone
• Catalan: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Chinese Mandarin: 傳真 /传真 (chuánzhēn) — document transmitted by telephone
• Czech: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Danish: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Danish: telefax — document transmitted by telephone
• Dutch: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Estonian: faks — document transmitted by telephone
• Finnish: faksi — document transmitted by telephone
• French: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• French: télécopie — document transmitted by telephone
• Galician: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Georgian: ფაქსი (paksi) — document transmitted by telephone
• German: Fax — document transmitted by telephone
• German: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Greek: φαξ (fax) — document transmitted by telephone
• Hebrew: פַקְס (faks) — document transmitted by telephone
• Hindi: फ़ैक्स (faiks) — document transmitted by telephone
• Hindi: फैक्स (phaiks) — document transmitted by telephone
• Hungarian: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Icelandic: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Icelandic: símbréf — document transmitted by telephone
• Ido: faxuro — document transmitted by telephone
• Indonesian: faks — document transmitted by telephone
• Italian: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Italian: telefax — document transmitted by telephone
• Italian: telecopia — document transmitted by telephone
• Italian: telecopiatura — document transmitted by telephone
• Japanese: ファックス (fakkusu) — document transmitted by telephone
• Japanese: ファクシミリ (fakushimiri) — document transmitted by telephone
• Karelian: faksu — document transmitted by telephone
• Kazakh: факс (faks) — document transmitted by telephone
• Khmer: ទូរសារ (tuu saa) — document transmitted by telephone
• Korean: 팩스 (paekseu) — document transmitted by telephone
• Korean: 팩시밀리 (paeksimilli) — document transmitted by telephone
• Kyrgyz: факс (faks) — document transmitted by telephone
• Lao: ການຄັດສໍາເນົາ (kān khat sam nao) — document transmitted by telephone
• Lao: ແພັກ (phæk) — document transmitted by telephone
• Latin: facsimilis — document transmitted by telephone
• Latvian: fakss — document transmitted by telephone
• Latvian: faksimils — document transmitted by telephone
• Lithuanian: faksas — document transmitted by telephone
• Luxembourgish: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Macedonian: факс (faks) — document transmitted by telephone
• Malay: faks — document transmitted by telephone
• Mongolian: факс (faks) — document transmitted by telephone
• Norman: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Norwegian Bokmål: faks — document transmitted by telephone
• Norwegian Bokmål: telefaks — document transmitted by telephone
• Norwegian Nynorsk: faks — document transmitted by telephone
• Norwegian Nynorsk: telefaks — document transmitted by telephone
• Persian: دورنگار (dornegâr) — document transmitted by telephone
• Persian: فاکس (fâks) — document transmitted by telephone
• Polish: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Polish: faks — document transmitted by telephone
• Polish: telefaks — document transmitted by telephone
• Polish: telefax — document transmitted by telephone
• Portuguese: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Romanian: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Russian: факс (faks) — document transmitted by telephone
• Russian: факси́миле (faksímile) — document transmitted by telephone
• Russian: телефа́кс (telefáks) — document transmitted by telephone
• Serbo-Croatian: факс — document transmitted by telephone
• Serbo-Croatian: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Serbo-Croatian: faks — document transmitted by telephone
• Slovak: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Slovene: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Spanish: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Spanish: telefax — document transmitted by telephone
• Spanish: telefacsímil — document transmitted by telephone
• Swahili: faksi — document transmitted by telephone
• Swedish: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Swedish: telefax — document transmitted by telephone
• Tajik: факс (faks) — document transmitted by telephone
• Thai: แฟกซ์ (fɛ̀k) — document transmitted by telephone
• Thai: แฟ็กซ์ (fɛ̀k) — document transmitted by telephone
• Thai: โทรสาร (too-rá-sǎan) — document transmitted by telephone
• Turkish: faks — document transmitted by telephone
• Turkish: belgeç — document transmitted by telephone
• Turkish: belgegeçer — document transmitted by telephone
• Turkmen: faks — document transmitted by telephone
• Ukrainian: факс (faks) — document transmitted by telephone
• Urdu: نسخۂ کامل — document transmitted by telephone
• Urdu: فاکس (fāks) — document transmitted by telephone
• Uzbek: faks — document transmitted by telephone
• Venda: fekisi — document transmitted by telephone
• Vietnamese: fax — document transmitted by telephone
• Vietnamese: điện thư — document transmitted by telephone
• Xibe: ᠠᡞᡫᡝ ᡝᡞ ᠠᡞᡣᡝᠰ (aife ei aikes) — document transmitted by telephone
• Yiddish: פֿאַקס (faks) — document transmitted by telephone
• Arabic: أَرْسَلَ فَاكْس (ʔarsala faks) — send document
• Chinese Mandarin: 發傳真 /发传真 (fā chuánzhēn) — send document
• Czech: faxovat — send document
• Danish: faxe — send document
• Dutch: faxen — send document
• Finnish: faksata — send document
• French: faxer — send document
• French: oïn — send document
• German: faxen — send document
• German: fernkopieren — send document
• Greek: τηλεομοιοτυπώ (tileomoiotypó) — send document
• Greek: στέλνω φαξ (stélno fax) — send document
• Icelandic: faxa — send document
• Ido: faxar — send document
• Italian: faxare — send document
• Italian: telecopiare — send document
• Japanese: ファクスを送る (fakkusu-o okuru) — send document
• Mongolian: факсдах (faksdax) — send document
• Norman: faxer — send document
• Persian: دورنگاریدن (dôrnegâridan) — send document
• Persian: فکس کردن (faks kardan) — send document
• Polish: faksować — send document
• Polish: przefaksować — send document
• Portuguese: mandar/enviar por fax — send document
• Russian: посыла́ть факс (posylátʹ faks) — send document
• Russian: передава́ть факс (peredavátʹ faks) — send document
• Spanish: faxear — send document
• Swedish: faxa — send document