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farl

/fɑːl/

farl noun: a quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake. Also the obsolete form of furl.

farl: a quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake
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Noun

farl (plural farls)

  1. (obsolete) A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake.
  2. Any such cake or bread, now especially an Irish speciality such as a soda farl or potato farl.

Also used as

farl is also the obsolete form of furl.

Forms of farl

Noun
pluralfarls
Verb
third-person singular presentfarls
present participlefarling
past participlefarled
pastfarled

Origin of farl

Contraction of fardel, probably with some influence from the Irish fearann meaning a fourth, especially of land or oatcakes. In this specific sense, fearann itself may be a possible cognate from a Norse or Old English root.

Words that rhyme with farl

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Questions about farl

What does farl mean?
Farl means a quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake.
What part of speech is farl?
Farl is a noun.
How do you pronounce farl?
Farl is pronounced /fɑːl/.
What is the plural of farl?
The plural of farl is farls.

Words near farl in the dictionary

  1. farkleberries
  2. farkleberry
  3. farkled
  4. farklempt
  5. farks
  6. farl
  7. Farlam
  8. Farland
  9. farlands
  10. farled
  11. Farleigh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: farl (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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