fika

Borrowed from Swedish fika.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːkə/

fika (usually uncountable, plural fikas)

1. The practice of taking a break from daily activities or meeting with people to enjoy pastries and drinks, typically coffee.

   Synonym: coffee break

   • 2015, Anna Brones, Johanna Kindvall, Fika: The Art of the Swedish Coffee Break, with Recipes for Pastries, Breads, and Other Treats, page 3:

     Fika can be done anytime, anywhere, and with anyone.

   • 2016, Melissa Bahen, Scandinavian Gatherings: From Afternoon Fika to Midsummer Feast: 70 Simple Recipes & Crafts for Everyday Celebrations, page 65:

     Fika is casual by nature, so there's no need to get fancy.

   • 2018, Lynda Balslev, The Little Book of Fika: The Uplifting Daily Ritual of the Swedish Coffee Break, page 7:

     Today, fika is a necessary component to work-life balance.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fika.

• kafi, kaif

• f*ka (censored)

• IPA^(key): [ˈfika]
• Rhymes: -ika
• Hyphenation: fi‧ka

fika (accusative singular fikan, plural fikaj, accusative plural fikajn)

1. (vulgar) fucking, fucken
   • 2000 January 16, David J. Coffin, “Neĝa Taglibro (komika)”, in soc.culture.esperanto‎ (Usenet), message-ID <nEcg4.3600$Ef6.939221@news.shore.net>:

     Dek-kvin Dio-damnaj fikaj centimetroj da fika neĝo kaj fika neĝpluvo kaj fika glacio kaj neniu scias kia alia blanka fekaĵo falis lastanokte.

     15 goddamn fucking centimeters of fucking snow and fucking sleet and fucking ice and nobody-knows-what kind of other white shit fell last night.

From Vulgar Latin fīca (“fig”), from Latin fīcus (“fig tree”), from a pre-Indo European language, perhaps Phoenician 𐤐𐤂 (pg, “ripe fig”); see fig for more.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːka/
• Rhymes: -iːka

fika f (genitive singular fiku, plural fikur)

1. fig

• fikublað
• fikutræ

fika

1. mathematics

• IPA^(key): [ˈfikɒ]
• Hyphenation: fi‧ka
• Rhymes: -kɒ

fika (plural fikák)

1. (dialectal or informal) snot, booger (a piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril)

   Synonym: takony

2. (dialectal) little child or young student

   Synonyms: gyerek, kisgyerek, diák, kisdiák

3. (dialectal, archaic, derogatory) common soldier

   Synonyms: baka, gyalogos, bakancsos

• fikás
• fikáz

fika

1. to arrive

• fika in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Proto-Bantu *-pìka.

-fika

1. to arrive

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

fika f

1. singular definite of fike

From Proto-Bantu *-pìka.

-fika

1. to arrive

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ka/
• Rhymes: -ika
• Syllabification: fi‧ka

fika

1. third-person singular present of fikać

From Proto-Bantu *-pìka.

-fika

1. to arrive

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-pìka.

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

-fika (infinitive kufika)

1. to arrive

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -fikia (“to lodge at, to overcome, to arrive at”)
  • Causative: -fikisha (“to deliver”)

From Proto-Bantu *-pìka.

-fika

1. to arrive

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /²fiːka/

• audio

  (file)

This sense is attested in writing from 1910.[1] One possible explanation is that the word is formed by backslang of the syllables in the dialectal word kaffi (“coffee”), from Dutch koffie or a similar source. Another possible etymology is that it is derived from the older verb fika (desire, crave - see etymology 2), in the sense of craving something sweet.

fika c or n

1. having coffee, tea, saft (“cordial, squash”), or the like, usually with cookies, pastries, or other (sweet) snacks, usually with others, as a social activity
   • 1991, Lars Pålsson Syll, Samhälleliga val, värde och exploatering. En ekonomisk-filosofisk kritik, page 90:

     Om Nils är koffeinist, kommer han att föredra fikan med mest kaffe, oberoende av hur många kakor som kan ingå i alternativen.

     If Nils is a caffeineist, he'll prefer the fika with the most coffee, independent of how many biscuits that may be included in the alternatives.

   1. a coffee (or tea, etc.) break, when taking a break to do the above

Sometimes at more or less fixed times of the day, for example mid-morning or mid-afternoon, similar to English afternoon tea.

fika (present fikar, preterite fikade, supine fikat, imperative fika)

1. to have fika; to have coffee

   De är det fikande folket.

   They are the people that enjoy fika.

   • 2000, Arne Dahl, Upp till toppen av berget:

     Det var strax efter lunchtid, och man fikade för tredje gången denna torsdag.

     It was right after lunchtime, and one had fika for the third time this thursday.

• fik

Attested in writing from 1527. From Old Swedish fikia (“to hurry, to eagerly strive for”). Related to Danish fige, dialectal Norwegian fikia, Icelandic fíkjask. According to Svenska Akademiens ordbok, it might be related to the Norwegian verb fika (“to eagerly move ones arms back and forth”) and German ficken (“to rub”).[1]

fika (present fikar, preterite fikade, supine fikat, imperative fika)

1. (archaic) to strive for, to work hard; to desire, often with the preposition efter

   att fika efter makt ― to strive for power

   • 1917, “Ordspråksboken 28:20 [Book of Proverbs 28:20]”, in 1917 års kyrkobibel [Church Bible of 1917]:

     En redlig man får mycken välsignelse; men den som fikar efter att varda rik, kan bliver icke ostraffad.

     An honorable man get much blessing; but the one who strives to get rich, may not remain unpunished.

2. (archaic) to hurry

• fika efter

• fika in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fika in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ka/

fika

1. ash, ashes

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Proto-Bantu *-pìka.

-fika

1. to arrive
2. to come to

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-pìka.

-fika

1. (intransitive) to arrive, to reach [+locative]

• umafikazisina

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “fika”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “fika (6.3)”