figuur

From Middle Dutch figure f, borrowed from Old French figure, borrowed from Latin figura.

• IPA^(key): /fiˈɣyːr/
• Rhymes: -yr

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• Hyphenation: fi‧guur

figuur n or f (plural figuren, diminutive figuurtje n)

1. figure, shape
2. figure, person

• → Indonesian: figur
• Negerhollands: figuur

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “figuur”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
• Matthias de Vries, Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864) “figuur”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001