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-West Germanic *fahs, 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)

(obsolete or UK dialectal) The hair of the head.

Derived terms

faxed
Fairfax
Halifax

Etymology 2

Clipping of facsimile, first attested 1979.

Noun

fax (plural faxes or faxxes)

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

Derived terms

black fax
e-fax
fax number

Descendants

→ Japanese: ファックス

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 (phẏaksô)
Bulgarian: факс m (faks)
Burmese: ပုံတူညီသော (pumtu-nyisau:), ဖက်စ် (hpakc)
Catalan: fax (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 傳真／传真 (zh) (chuánzhēn)
Czech: fax (cs) m
Danish: fax (da) c, telefax c
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)
Karelian: faksu
Kazakh: факс (faks)
Khmer: ទូរសារ (tuu saa)
Korean: 팩스 (ko) (paekseu), 팩시밀리 (ko) (paeksimilli)
Kyrgyz: факс (faks)
Lao: ການຄັດສຳເນົາ (kān khat sam nao), ແພັກ (phæk)
Latin: facsimilis m
Latvian: fakss m, faksimils m
Lithuanian: faksas m
Luxembourgish: fax
Macedonian: факс m (faks)
Malay: faks (ms)
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 n
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 or faxxes, present participle faxing or faxxing, simple past and past participle faxed or faxxed)

To send a document via a fax machine.
- 1990, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, volume 14, page 82:
  Hands trembling with excitement and impatience, I faxxed my credit history to Jerry Raskin, the real estate agent listed, and received an appointment to view the place.
- 1991, Jury Verdicts Weekly, volume 35, page 10:
  Plaintiff contented that in a game show in London, England, in January of 1988, Mr. Steinberg entered into an oral agreement with Atari representatives to become the exclusive distributor of Atari Games’ products; that the proposed agreement was dictated at this meeting; and that within two days Mr. Steinberg sent defendant a faxxed confirmation of this oral arrangement reached at the London trade show.
- 1992, Montana National Forest Management Act of 1991: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks and Forests of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session on S. 1696; October 22, 1991, Washington: United States Government Publishing Office, →ISBN, pages 140–141:
  SENATOR BAUCUS, IT IS THE THIRD STATEMENT, YOUR CHALLENGE, THAT HAS LED TO THE MOST FRUSTRATION FOR THE PEOPLE I AM REPRESENTING TODAY. WE TOOK YOU AT YOUR WORD AND HAVE RALLIED AND CONVOYED TO MAKE YOU AWARE OF US, TELEPHONED, WRITTEN LETTERS, FAXXED YOU, AND SPOKE WITH YOU PERSONALLY TO LET YOU KNOW HOW WE FEEL.
- 1993, H. Bruce Franklin, M.I.A., or, Mythmaking in America, revised and expanded paperback edition, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 194:
  A few of the corporations involved have frankly acknowledged the roadblock: their own fear of the POW/MIA movement. Some companies scheduled for a trade mission to Vietnam dropped out after receiving a faxxed message from the National P.O.W. Strike Force summed up by its leader: “We will go out of our way to destroy your company because you want to do business with filthy Communists who are holding American prisoners.”
- 1993, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN, page 737, column 1:
  Thanks to Franz Amador and Tony Barrett for helpful discussions. We gratefully acknowledge Oren Etzioni’s emergency faxxing service. This research was funded in part by National Science Foundation Grant IRI-8957302, Office of Naval Research Grant 90-J-1904, and a grant from the Xerox corporation.
- 1994, Olga Elena Mattei, “Part One: Poetry [§] The Angel of the Millennium (Accident at the Nuclear Plant)”, in Roberta Fernández, editor, In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States, Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, page 139:
  His logistic: to dress in the skin of the worker, / the technician, the programmer, / infiltrating himself in their milieu, / their offices, their plants, & their boards, / a bug in their systems, / crossing up the controls and the panels, / the wiring, the wave lengths, / the faxxing of messages, the spy-satellites / & their receptors, / changing their conceptions, their charts.
- 1995, Lucha Corpi, Cactus Blood: A Mystery Novel, Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, page 151:
  He already has the copy of the other fingerprints that Leo faxxed to him for comparison.
- 1995 May 17, Ken Luongo, “Comments on GAO Report on CTR Program Concerning MPCA (note to Ken Sanders)”, in Weapons of Mass Destruction: Reducing the Threat From the Former Soviet Union: An Update (United States General Accounting Office, Report to Congressional Requesters), published June 1995, “Background”, page 76:
  On May 12, 1995, Julie Hirshen (GAO) faxxed a draft portion of the GAO Cooperative Threat Reduction report dealing with MPCA.
- 1996, Middle East Peace Process: Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session; September 20, 1995, Washington: United States Government Publishing Office, →ISBN, page 25:
  [162] / Faxxing from Israel / 03-695-0132 / [163] / Calling from abroad / 972-3-695-6868 / Faxxing from abroad / 972-3-695-0132
- 1997 May 18, Mike Story, “Confirmed....Pilot Modem Has FAX capability!!”, in alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot, Usenet:
  Please advise how one faxxes from the Pilot Pro. Faxxing would greatly enhance my use of the Pilot. / Thanks!
- 1999, Appendix E: Response to Public Comments: Final Environmental Impact Statement For Open Road and Open Motorized Trail Analysis (Motorized Road and Trail Travel Plan):
  Please have Georgia Dixon of Sen Craig’s office have a current copy of the Canadian Endangered Species list faxxed to her from Ottawa, Canada.

Translations

send document

Arabic: أَرْسَلَ فَاكْس‎ (ʾarsala faks)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 發傳真／发传真 (fā chuánzhēn)
Czech: faxovat
Danish: faxe
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) (faksdax)
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)

Noun

fax

(informal) Nonstandard form of facts.

Interjection

fax

Alternative form of facts (“used to express agreement”).

Chinese

Etymology

From English fax.

Pronunciation 1

Cantonese (Jyutping): fek¹ si²

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: fek¹ si²
  - Yale: fēk sí
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fek⁷ si²
  - Guangdong Romanization: fég¹ xi²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɛːk̚⁵ siː³⁵/

Noun

fax

(Hong Kong Cantonese) fax (document) (Classifier: 張／张; 份)
fax機／fax机 [Cantonese] ― fek¹ si² gei¹ [Jyutping] ― fax machine

Pronunciation 2

Cantonese (Jyutping): fek¹ si², fek¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: fek¹ si², fek¹
  - Yale: fēk sí, fēk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fek⁷ si², fek⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: fég¹ xi², fég¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɛːk̚⁵ siː³⁵/, /fɛːk̚⁵/

Verb

fax

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to fax

References

English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

Czech

Noun

fax m

fax (document)
fax, fax machine

Declension

Declension of fax

	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

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɑks/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: fax
Rhymes: -ɑks

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English fax (“a fax machine; to fax”).

Noun

fax m (plural faxen, diminutive faxje n)

fax

Synonyms

telefacsimile
telefax

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fax

first-person singular present indicative of faxen
imperative of faxen

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /faks/

Noun

fax m (plural fax)

fax
Synonym: télécopie
fax machine
Synonyms: télécopieur, télécopieuse

German

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Verb

fax

singular imperative of faxen

Hungarian

Etymology

From English (tele)fax, from facsimile. [1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈfɒks]
Rhymes: -ɒks

Noun

fax (plural faxok)

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
non-attributive possessive - singular	faxé	faxoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	faxéi	faxokéi

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

faxgép
faxkezelő
faxkészülék
faxpapír
faxszám
faxüzenet

References

Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Icelandic

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fax (“mane”).

Noun

fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)

mane (of a horse)

Declension

declension of fax

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

Etymology 2

From English fax, from facsimile, from Latin.

Noun

fax n (genitive singular fax, nominative plural föx)

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

Declension

declension of fax

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

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰweh₂k- (“to shine”). Cognate with facētus, Lithuanian žvakė (“candle”). Compare also Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌂𐌄 (face, “torch (?)”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /faks/, [fäks̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /faks/, [fäks]

Noun

fax f (genitive facis); third declension

torch, firebrand
fireball, comet
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 495

Middle English

Alternative forms

væx (early)

Etymology

From Old English feax, from Proto-West Germanic *fahs.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /faks/

Noun

fax (plural faxes)

The hair of the head.

Derived terms

faxwax

Descendants

English: fax (obsolete)
Scots: fax

References

“fax, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

Noun

fax m (plural fax)

(Jersey) fax

Old Norse

Etymology

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

Noun

fax n

a mane

Declension

Declension of fax (strong a-stem)

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

Descendants

Icelandic: fax
Faroese: faks
Norwegian: faks
→ Scots: fax (foam-topped wave, swell)

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fax.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /faks/
Rhymes: -aks
Syllabification: fax

Noun

fax m inan

(telephony) Alternative spelling of faks.
Synonym: telefax

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

Portuguese

Noun

fax m (plural faxes or fax)

fax (document transmitted by telephone)

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fax.

Noun

fax n (plural faxuri)

fax

Declension

Declension of fax

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) fax	faxul	(niște) faxuri	faxurile
genitive/dative	(unui) fax	faxului	(unor) faxuri	faxurilor
vocative	faxule		faxurilor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fax.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfaɡs/ [ˈfaɣ̞s]
Rhymes: -aɡs
Syllabification: fax

Noun

fax m (plural fax)

fax

Swedish

Pronunciation

Homophone: facks

Noun

fax c or n

a fax (machine) c
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 (SAOL)

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 (phā), 𑜇𑜨𑜠 (phoa), 𑜇𑜨𑜡 (phoā) or 𑜇𑜞𑜠 (phra).

Pronunciation

(Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /fa˦˨/

Tone numbers: fa⁴

Hyphenation: fax

Noun

fax (Sawndip forms 𭱇 or 𫯨 or 𪥉, 1957–1982 spelling faч)

(dialectal, including Longzhou) sky
Synonym: mbwn

[1] Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN