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fahl

fahl is the alternative form of faal.

Meaning of faal

Adjective

faal (comparative more faal, superlative most faal)

  1. (Yorkshire) Ugly; foul; evil.
    • 'And again, “If she ben’t one o’ th’ handsomest, she’s noan faâl and varry good-natured; and i’ his een she’s fair beautiful, onybody may see that.”1897, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 38, in Jane Eyre

Proper noun capitalized: Fahl

Fahl (plural Fahls)

  1. A surname from German.

Forms of fahl

pluralFahls

Origin of fahl

Borrowed from German Fahl (“pale”).

Questions about fahl

What does fahl mean?
Fahl means a surname from German.
What is fahl the alternative form of?
Fahl is the alternative form of faal.
What part of speech is fahl?
Fahl is a proper noun.

Words near fahl in the dictionary

  1. Faheys
  2. Fahie
  3. Fahies
  4. Fahim
  5. Fahims
  6. fahl
  7. fahlband
  8. fahlbands
  9. fahleite
  10. fahlerz
  11. Fahlman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fahl (page history and authors); Fahl (page history and authors); faal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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