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fals

fals noun: medieval copper coin first produced by the Umayyad caliphate beginning in the late 7th century.

Noun (1)

fals (plural fulus)

  1. (Middle-Ages) Medieval copper coin first produced by the Umayyad caliphate beginning in the late 7th century.

Noun (2) capitalized: FALS

FALS (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, alternative) Alternative form of fALS; Abbreviation of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Noun (3) capitalized: FALs

FALs

  1. (plural) plural of FAL

Noun (4) capitalized: fALS

fALS (plural fALS or fALSes)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Forms of fals

pluralfulus
alternative formfils
pluralfALS
pluralfALSes

Origin of fals

From Arabic فَلْس (fals), from Aramaic פילס / ܦܠܣ / פולסא / ܦܘܠܣܐ (/⁠fuləsā, filas⁠/), from Ancient Greek φόλλις (phóllis), from Latin follis. Doublet of follis and fool.

Phrases with fals

Questions about fals

What does fals mean?
Fals means medieval copper coin first produced by the Umayyad caliphate beginning in the late 7th century.
What part of speech is fals?
Fals is a noun.
What is the plural of fals?
The plural of fals is fulus.

Words near fals in the dictionary

  1. falne
  2. falness
  3. falooda
  4. faloodas
  5. faloodeh
  6. fals
  7. falsa
  8. falsaries
  9. falsary
  10. falsas
  11. false

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fals (page history and authors); FALS (page history and authors); FALs (page history and authors); fALS (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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