fathe
noun
fathe is a noun meaning “The diacritical mark ـَ (-a) used in the Persian script to denote the short vowel sound a, analogically to Arabic fatha” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-T-H-E, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fathe is fathes.
What does fathe mean?
noun
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The diacritical mark ـَ (-a) used in the Persian script to denote the short vowel sound a, analogically to Arabic fatha.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fathe
- fathes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fathe?
Fathe appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fathe come from?
Borrowed from Persian فَتْحِه (fathe).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).