fax

See also: Fax and ℻

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: făks, IPA^(key): /fæks/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Homophone: facts (informal US and Canada pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -æks

Etymology 1

From Middle English fax, from Old English feax (“hair, head of hair”), 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”).

Noun

fax (usually uncountable, plural faxes)

1. (obsolete or Britain dialectal) The hair of the head.

Derived terms

• faxed
• Fairfax
• Halifax

Etymology 2

Clipping of facsimile, first attested 1979.

Noun

fax (plural faxes)

1. A fax machine or a document received and printed by one.

Translations

document transmitted by telephone

• Albanian: faks (sq) m
• Alemannic German: fax
• Arabic: فَاكْس‎ m (fāks)
• Armenian: ֆաքս (hy) (fakʿs), հեռապատճեն (hy) (heṙapatčen)
• Azerbaijani: faks
• Belarusian: факс m (faks)
• Bengali: ফ্যাক্স (pphaks)
• Bulgarian: факс m (faks)
• Burmese: ပုံတူညီသော (pumtu-nyisau:), ဖက်စ် (hpakc)
• Catalan: fax (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傳真 (zh), 传真 (zh) (chuánzhēn)

• Czech: fax (cs) m
• Dutch: fax (nl) m
• Estonian: faks
• Finnish: faksi (fi)
• French: fax (fr) m, (document) télécopie (fr) f, (machine) télécopieur (fr) m
• Galician: fax m
• Georgian: ფაქსი (paksi)
• German: Fax (de) n
• Greek: φαξ (el) n (fax)
• Hebrew: פַקְס‎ (he) m (faks)
• Hindi: फ़ैक्स m (faiks), फैक्स m (phaiks)
• Hungarian: fax (hu)
• Icelandic: fax (is) n, faxtæki n
• Ido: faxuro (io)
• Indonesian: faks (id)
• Italian: fax (it) m, telefax (it) m
• Japanese: ファックス (fakkusu), ファクシミリ (fakushimiri)
• Kazakh: факс (faks)
• Khmer: ទូរសារ (tuu saa)
• Korean: 팩스 (ko) (paekseu), 팩시밀리 (ko) (paeksimilli)
• Kyrgyz: факс (faks)
• Lao: ການຄັດສຳເນົາ (kaːn kʰāt săm náo), ແພັກ (phæk)

• Latin: facsimilis m
• Latvian: fakss m, faksimils m
• Lithuanian: faksas m
• Luxembourgish: fax
• Macedonian: факс m (faks)
• Malay: faks
• Mongolian: факс (mn) (faks)
• Norman: fax m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: faks m, telefaks m

  Nynorsk: faks m, telefaks m

• Persian: دورنگار‎ (fa) (dornegâr), فاکس‎ (fa) (fâks)
• Polish: fax (pl) m, faks (pl) m, telefaks (pl) m, telefax (pl) m
• Portuguese: fax (pt)
• Romanian: fax
• Russian: факс (ru) m (faks), факси́миле (ru) n (faksímile), телефа́кс (ru) m (telefáks)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: факс m

  Roman: fax m, faks (sh) m

• Slovak: fax (sk) m
• Slovene: fax m
• Spanish: fax (es) m
• Swahili: faksi (sw)
• Swedish: fax (sv) c, telefax (sv) c
• Tajik: факс (faks)
• Thai: แฟกซ์ (th) (fɛ̀k), แฟ็กซ์ (th) (fɛ̀k), โทรสาร (th) (too-rá-sǎan)
• Turkish: faks (tr)
• Turkmen: faks
• Ukrainian: факс m (faks)
• Urdu: نسخۂ کامل‎, فاکس‎ (fāks)
• Uzbek: faks (uz)
• Venda: fekisi
• Vietnamese: fax (vi), điện thư
• Yiddish: פֿאַקס‎ (faks)

Verb

fax (third-person singular simple present faxes, present participle faxing, simple past and past participle faxed)

1. To send a document via a fax machine.

Translations

send document

• Arabic: أَرْسَلَ فَاكْس‎ (ʾarsala faks)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發傳真, 发传真 (fā chuánzhēn)

• Czech: faxovat
• Dutch: faxen (nl)
• Finnish: faksata (fi)
• French: faxer (fr), oïn
• German: faxen (de), fernkopieren
• Greek: τηλεομοιοτυπώ (tileomoiotypó), στέλνω φαξ (stélno fax)
• Icelandic: faxa

• Ido: faxar (io)
• Japanese: ファクスを送る (fakkusu-o okuru)
• Mongolian: факсдах (mn) (faksdah)
• Norman: faxer
• Persian: دورنگاریدن‎ (dōrnegâridan), فکس کردن‎ (faks kardan)
• Polish: faksować (pl), przefaksować
• Portuguese: mandar/enviar por fax
• Russian: посыла́ть факс (posylátʹ faks), передава́ть факс (peredavátʹ faks)
• Swedish: faxa (sv)

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Czech

Noun

fax m

1. fax (document)
2. fax, fax machine

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	fax	faxy
genitive	faxu	faxů
dative	faxu	faxům
accusative	fax	faxy
vocative	faxe	faxy
locative	faxu	faxech
instrumental	faxem	faxy

Related terms

• faxovat

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Dutch

Etymology

From English fax (“a fax machine; to fax”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑks

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

fax m (plural faxen, diminutive faxje n)

1. fax

Synonyms

• telefacsimile
• telefax

Verb

fax

1. first-person singular present indicative of faxen
2. imperative of faxen

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Hungarian

Etymology

From English (tele)fax, from facsimile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒks]

Noun

fax (plural faxok)

1. fax

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	fax	faxok
accusative	faxot	faxokat
dative	faxnak	faxoknak
instrumental	faxszal	faxokkal
causal-final	faxért	faxokért
translative	faxszá	faxokká
terminative	faxig	faxokig
essive-formal	faxként	faxokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	faxban	faxokban
superessive	faxon	faxokon
adessive	faxnál	faxoknál
illative	faxba	faxokba
sublative	faxra	faxokra
allative	faxhoz	faxokhoz
elative	faxból	faxokból
delative	faxról	faxokról
ablative	faxtól	faxoktól

Possessive forms of fax
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	faxom	faxaim
2nd person sing.	faxod	faxaid
3rd person sing.	faxa	faxai
1st person plural	faxunk	faxaink
2nd person plural	faxotok	faxaitok
3rd person plural	faxuk	faxaik

Derived terms

• faxol

(Compound words):

• faxkészülék
• faxkezelő
• faxpapír
• faxszám
• faxüzenet

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faxs/
• IPA^(key): /faks/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fax (“mane”) from Proto-Indo-European *poḱ-s-, from *peḱ- (“to pluck”).

Noun

fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)

1. mane (of a horse)

Declension

declension of fax

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fax	faxið	föx	föxin
accusative	fax	faxið	föx	föxin
dative	faxi	faxinu	föxum	föxunum
genitive	fax	faxins	faxa	faxanna

See also

• makki

Etymology 2

From English fax, from facsimile, from Latin.

Noun

fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)

1. fax, telefax (document sent electronically and printed with a fax machine)

Declension

declension of fax

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fax	faxið	föx	föxin
accusative	fax	faxið	föx	föxin
dative	faxi	faxinu	föxum	föxunum
genitive	fax	faxins	faxa	faxanna

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʷʰeh₂k- (“to shine”). Cognate with facētus, Lithuanian žvakė (“candle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /faks/

Noun

fax f (genitive facis); third declension

1. torch, firebrand
2. fireball, comet
3. cause of ruin, incitement

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fax	facēs
Genitive	facis	facum
Dative	facī	facibus
Accusative	facem	facēs
Ablative	face	facibus
Vocative	fax	facēs

Derived terms

• facula

References

• fax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fax in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fax in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fax in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• fax in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fax in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 495

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

Noun

fax m (plural fax)

1. (Jersey) fax

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Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fahsą, from *peḱ- (“to pluck”).

Noun

fax n

1. a mane

Declension

  Declension of fax (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fax	faxit	fǫx	fǫxin
accusative	fax	faxit	fǫx	fǫxin
dative	faxi	faxinu	fǫxum	fǫxunum
genitive	faxs	faxsins	faxa	faxanna

Descendants

• Faroese: faks
• Icelandic: fax
• Norwegian: faks

References

• fax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fax in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fax in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fax in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fax in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fax in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faks/

Noun

fax m inan

1. fax

Declension

declension of fax

	singular	plural
nominative	fax	faksy
genitive	faksu	faksów
dative	faksowi	faksom
accusative	fax	faksy
instrumental	faksem	faksami
locative	faksie	faksach
vocative	faksie	faksy

Synonyms

• faks, telefaks, telefax

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

fax m (plural faxes or fax)

1. fax (document transmitted by telephone)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faks/

Noun

fax m (plural fax)

1. fax

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• Homophone: facks

Noun

fax c or n

1. a fax (machine) c
2. a fax (document) n

Declension

Declension of fax 1
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	fax	faxen	faxar	faxarna
Genitive	fax	faxens	faxars	faxarnas

Declension of fax
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	fax	faxet	fax	faxen
Genitive	fax	faxets	fax	faxens

Synonyms

• telefax

Related terms

• faksimil
• faxa
• faxmeddelande
• faxnummer
• faxsignal
• faxsändning

 

References

• fax in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

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Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *vaːᶜ (“sky; weather”). Cognate with Thai ฟ้า (fáa), Northern Thai ᨼ᩶ᩣ, Lao ຟ້າ (fā), Lü ᦝᦱᧉ (faa²), Shan ၽႃႉ (phâ̰a) or ၾႃႉ (fâ̰a), Ahom 𑜇𑜠 (pha), 𑜇𑜡 (phaa), 𑜇𑜨𑜠 (phoa), 𑜇𑜨𑜡 (phoaa) or 𑜇𑜞𑜠 (phra).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /fa˦˨/
• Tone numbers: fa⁴
• Hyphenation: fax

Noun

fax (old orthography faч, Sawndip forms 𭱇, 𫯨, 𪥉)

1. (dialectal, including Longzhou) sky

   Synonym: mbwn