Firma
German (Berlin)
/fɪrma/
noun
Definitions
- A company, a business.
- (specialist) A firm, the name under which a company operates, as opposed to the actual legal entity.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian firma (signature, signature of a company).
Origin
Italian (Fiorentino)
firma
Gloss
signature, signature of a company
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- confirmation English
- confirmative English
- dethrone English
- enthrone English
- firm English
- firmer English
- firmish English
- firmless English
- firmly English
- firmness English
- firmware English
- firmwide English
- infirmary English
- interfirm English
- megafirm English
- semifirm English
- stand firm English
- superfirm English
- terra firma English
- unfirm English
- firma Finnish
- affirmare Latin
- affirmativus Latin
- confirmare, confirmāre Latin
- drenso Latin
- ferme Latin
- firmare Latin
- firmo Latin
- firmāmentum Latin
- firmō Latin
- formido Latin
- frenum Latin
- frenum, frēnum Latin
- fretus Latin
- frēnulum Latin
- frēnum Latin
- infirmus Latin
- Abbruch German
- Abbruchfirma German
- Briefkasten German
- Briefkastenfirma German
- Firmenname German
- Name German
- controfirma Italian
- fermata Italian
- firma Italian
- ferme French
- firme French
- θρόνος Ancient Greek
- *dʰer- Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰer-mo-s Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰerg- Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰreybʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰér-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰér-mos Proto-Indo-European
- firma Norwegian Bokmål
- firma Portuguese
- *dasōjan- Proto-Germanic
- *durô Proto-Germanic
- firma Norwegian Nynorsk
- dyrnan Old English
- अधर्म Sanskrit
- धरिमन् Sanskrit
- धर्म Sanskrit
- धर्मिन् Sanskrit
- धार्मिक Sanskrit
- धृ Sanskrit
- ध्रुव Sanskrit
- *dьržati Proto-Slavic
- firma Serbo-Croatian
- धरोहर Hindi
- धर्मग्रंथ Hindi
- विधर्म Hindi
- դեռ Old Armenian
- ferma Ido
- firma Turkish
- *darnī gmw-pro
- dhamma Pali
- *Hwásuš Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *dhar- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *dʰar- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *dʰármas Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *fermos Proto-Italic
- derėti Lithuanian
- ifema Xhosa
- 𑀥𑀭𑀤𑀺 Sauraseni Prakrit
- firma Crimean Tatar
- 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎢𐏁 Old Persian
- 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎫𐎡𐎹 Old Persian
- 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 Old Persian