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fars

UK/fɑːs/US/fɑɹs/

fars is the plural of far.

Meaning of far

Noun (1)

far (uncountable)

  1. Emmer (a type of wheat), especially in the context of Roman use of it.
    • A cataplasm made from any meal is heating, whether it be of wheat, or of far, or barley, or bitter vetch, ...1756, Aurelius Cornelius Celsus, Medicine: In Eight Books, page 108

Noun (2)

far (plural fars)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A litter of piglets; a farrow.

See all 12 meanings of far

Noun capitalized: FARs

FARs

  1. (plural) plural of FAR

Proper noun capitalized: Fars

Fars

  1. A province of Iran.

Origin of fars

Borrowed from Persian فارس (fârs), see it for more. Doublet of Pars.

Phrases with fars

Words that rhyme with fars

Questions about fars

What does fars mean?
Fars means a province of Iran.
What is fars the plural of?
Fars is the plural of far.
What part of speech is fars?
Fars can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce fars?
Fars is pronounced /fɑːs/ (UK).

Words near fars in the dictionary

  1. Farrugias
  2. Farrukhabad
  3. farry
  4. farrying
  5. Farrys
  6. fars
  7. fars bretons
  8. farsakh
  9. farsakhs
  10. Farsakian
  11. Farsakians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fars (page history and authors); FARs (page history and authors); Fars (page history and authors); far (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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