affaire
French
noun
Definitions
- affair, business
- deal
- (informal) (usually used in the plural) belonging (something physical that is owned)
- (informal) things; stuff
- (Quebec) thingamajig
- (informal) thing
Etymology
Prefix from French faire (do, make).
Origin
French
faire
Gloss
do, make
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ad- English
- affair English
- affair, affairs English
- cyberaffair English
- nonaffair English
- afääri Finnish
- *accolligere Latin
- *adastō Latin
- *adgasaliare Latin
- *admonestāre Latin
- *admortire Latin
- *admortīre Latin
- *adpācāre Latin
- *affumāre Latin
- *appācāre Latin
- *arrestare Latin
- *arrestāre Latin
- *arrestāre, *arresto Latin
- *arrestō Latin
- *assecūrō, *assecuro, *assecūrāre Latin
- *assuaviō Latin
- *assēcūrō, *assēcūrāre, *assecuro Latin
- *invaginare Latin
- accolāre, accolare Latin
- ad- Latin
- advertō Latin
- faciō Latin
- meliōrō Latin
- vannus Latin
- Affäre German
- Sexaffäre German
- a Italian
- affaire Italian
- affaraccio Italian
- affare Italian
- affarismo Italian
- affarista Italian
- affaruccio Italian
- fare Italian
- malaffare Italian
- affaire, affaires Dutch, Flemish
- adsorber French
- affairisme French
- défaire French
- faire French
- faire-part French
- faisable French
- méfaire French
- parfaire French
- афера Russian
- a- Spanish, Castilian
- acaecer Spanish, Castilian
- affair Spanish, Castilian
- affaire Spanish, Castilian
- *h₂éd Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European
- *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *ád Proto-Indo-European
- affære Norwegian Bokmål
- kjærlighetsaffære Norwegian Bokmål
- affär Swedish
- affärskvinna Swedish
- affärsman Swedish
- affärsresa Swedish
- antikaffär Swedish
- delikatessaffär Swedish
- livsmedelsaffär Swedish
- mataffär Swedish
- adrenalina Polish
- afera Polish
- affære Norwegian Nynorsk
- afere Middle English
- a- Old French
- abaubir Old French
- acouchier Old French
- afaire Old French
- asseurer Old French
- esmer Old French
- aferaĉo Esperanto
- afereca Esperanto
- aferema Esperanto
- afereto Esperanto
- aferisto Esperanto
- afero Esperanto
- aferstato Esperanto
- afervojaĝo Esperanto
- aferŝarĝito Esperanto
- amafero Esperanto
- juĝafero Esperanto
- ĉefafero Esperanto
- afera Serbo-Croatian
- afer Catalan, Valencian
- fer Catalan, Valencian
- लफड़ा Hindi
- abanar Galician
- afuar Galician
- afungar Galician
- amorți Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- afero Ido
- affaire Middle French
- faire Middle French
- *𐌲𐌰𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰 Gothic
- લફડો Gujarati
- *ad Proto-Italic
- fè Haitian, Haitian Creole
- fer Mauritian Creole
- zafer Mauritian Creole
- amillorar Aragonese
- fais Louisiana Creole French
- zafer Seychellois Creole
- acolada Franco-Provençal
- fè Antillean Creole