figa

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfi.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈfi.ɣa]

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• Rhymes: -iɡa

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)

• “figa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “figa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “figa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “figa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

figa

1. to arrive, to reach

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈfiɣɐ]

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

• “figa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “figa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “figa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “figa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

• (Aggius) IPA^(key): /ˈfiɡa/[1]

figa f (plural fighi)

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

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

figa f (plural fighe)

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

• sfiga (“bad luck”)
• sfigato (“unlucky”)

figa f

1. feminine singular of figo

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

figa (mutated form viga)

1. plate

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

• figuo (Mistralian)

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

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figa f (plural figas)

1. fig

• figuièr

From Proto-West Germanic *fīgā.

fīga f

1. fig

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

From Vulgar Latin *fīca, from Latin fīcus.

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

1. fig (fruit)

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

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fīcus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 495

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ɡa/

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• Rhymes: -iɡa
• Syllabification: fi‧ga

figa f (related adjective figowy)

1. fig (fruit)
2. (colloquial) ficus, fig (any tree of the genus Ficus)

   Synonyms: figowiec, fikus

3. (colloquial) common fig, fig (shrub)
4. (colloquial) nil, nothing, zilch
5. fig sign (mildly obscene gesture that uses a thumb wedged in between two fingers)

• → Russian: фи́га (fíga)
  • → Kildin Sami: фӣга (fīga)

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

• (Sedini) IPA^(key): /ˈfiɡa/[1]

figa f (plural fighi)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiɡa/

figa f (genitive singular figy, nominative plural figy, genitive plural fíg, declension pattern of žena)

1. fig (fruit)

• figovník
• figový

• “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, 2024

• IPA^(key): /fìːɡa/

fíga f

1. fig (fruit)

• “figa”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

From English fig or Dutch vijg.

figa

1. fig (fruit of the fig tree)

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figa (ma class, plural mafiga)

1. cooking stone