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figa

See also: Figa, figá, figà, and figą

Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *fīca, from Latin fīcus. Compare Occitan figa or higa.

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figa f (plural figues)

  1. fig
    (idiomatic) Ser figues d'un altre paner ― to be something very different from what was expected (an idiom, literally to be figs from another basket)
    (idiomatic) Fer figa ― to fail to achieve an expected result (an idiom, literally to make fig)
  2. (vulgar slang) cunt; pussy (the vulva)

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Fanagalo

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Etymology

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From Zulu -fika, from Proto-Bantu *-pìka.

Verb

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figa

  1. to arrive, to reach

Galician

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Figa

Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese figa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *fīca (“vulva”), from Latin fīcus (“fig tree or fruit”).

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figa f (plural figas)

  1. (folklore) fig sign, used to ward off evil spirits, the evil eye, etc. When directed to a person is insulting and equivalent to a bras d'honneur

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Gallurese

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figa f (plural fighi)

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of fica (“fig”)

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  1. ^ Mauro Maxia (2012) Fonetica storica del gallurese e delle altre varietà sardocorse (in Gallurese), Editrice Taphros, →ISBN

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfi.ɡa/
  • Rhymes: -iɡa
  • Hyphenation: fì‧ga

Noun

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figa f (plural fighe)

  1. (vulgar, chiefly northern Italy) Alternative form of fica (“cunt, pussy”)

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Adjective

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figa f

  1. feminine singular of figo

Nias

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Malay pinggan, ultimately from Persian پنگان (pengân, “cup; bowl”).

Noun

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figa (mutated form viga)

  1. plate

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  • Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 69.

Occitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Occitan figa, from Vulgar Latin *fīca, from Latin fīcus.

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Noun

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figa f (plural figas)

  1. fig
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Old High German

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *fīgā.

Noun

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fīga f

  1. fig

Descendants

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  • Middle High German: vīge
    • Cimbrian: faiga
    • German: Feige
    • Yiddish: פֿײַג (fayg)
    • → Polish: figa (see there for further descendants)

Old Occitan

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *fīca, from Latin fīcus.

Noun

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figa f (oblique plural figas, nominative singular figa, nominative plural figas)

  1. fig (fruit)

Descendants

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  • Occitan: figa
  • → Old French: figue (see there for further descendants)

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl
 
figa sense 1
 
figa sense 2
 
figa sense 5
 
figi sense 1

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Middle High German vîge. Doublet of fikus and pigwa.

Noun

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figa f (related adjective figowy)

  2. fig (fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds)
  4. (colloquial) ficus, fig (any tree of the genus Ficus)
    Synonyms: figowiec, fikus
  5. (colloquial) common fig, fig (Ficus carica)
  6. (colloquial) nil, zilch (nothing, zero)
  8. fig sign (mildly obscene gesture that uses a thumb wedged in between two fingers, most commonly used to ward off the evil eye, insult someone, or deny a request)
Declension
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Declension of figa
singular plural
nominative figa figi
genitive figi fig
dative fidze figom
accusative figę figi
instrumental figą figami
locative fidze figach
vocative figo figi
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nouns
Descendants
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Etymology 2

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Ellipsis of majtki figowe.

Noun

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figa nvir pl

  2. (in the plural) knickers (women's legless underpants)
    Hypernym: majtki
Declension
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Declension of figi
plural
nominative figi
genitive fig
dative figom
accusative figi
instrumental figami
locative figach
vocative figi

Further reading

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  • figa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • figi in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • figa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • figa in PWN's encyclopedia

Sassarese

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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figa f (plural fighi)

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of figga (“fig”)

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  1. ^ Mauro Maxia (2012) Fonetica storica del gallurese e delle altre varietà sardocorse (in Sassarese), Editrice Taphros, →ISBN

Slovak

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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figa f (related adjective figový)

  1. fig

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Declension of figa (pattern žena)
singularplural
nominativefigafigy
genitivefigyfíg
dativefigefigám
accusativefigufigy
locativefigefigách
instrumentalfigoufigami
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Further reading

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  • “figa”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Slovene

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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fíga f

  1. fig (fruit)

Inflection

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 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. fíga
gen. sing. fíge
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		fíga fígi fíge
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		fíge fíg fíg
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		fígi fígama fígam
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		fígo fígi fíge
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		fígi fígah fígah
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		fígo fígama fígami

Further reading

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  • “figa”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Sranan Tongo

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Figa

Etymology

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From English fig or Dutch vijg.

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figa

  1. fig (fruit of the fig tree)

Swahili

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figa class V (plural mafiga class VI)

  1. cooking stone
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