figa

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfi.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “figa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “figa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “figa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “figa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “figa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• (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”)
2. (vulgar, chiefly northern Italy) alternative form of fica (“sexually attractive woman”)

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

figa

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. Which is a borrowing from Vulgar Latin *fīga and Latin fīcus (“fig”).

fīga f

1. fig

• Middle Dutch: vige
  • Dutch: vijg
    • Afrikaans: vy
    • Negerhollands: vigie (from the diminutive)

• “fīga”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

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, volume 3: D–F, page 495

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ɡa/

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• Rhymes: -iɡa
• Syllabification: fi‧ga

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

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)

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

Ellipsis of majtki figowe.

figa nvir pl

2. (in the plural) knickers (women's legless underpants)

   Hypernym: majtki

• 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

• (Sedini) IPA^(key): /ˈfiɡa/^[1]

figa f (plural fighi)

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈfiɡa]

figa f (relational adjective figový)

1. fig

• figovník

• “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, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /fìːɡa/

fíga f

1. fig (fruit)

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

• “figa”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

From English fig or Dutch vijg.

figa

1. fig (fruit of the fig tree)

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figa class V (plural mafiga class VI)

1. cooking stone