# fig
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɪɡ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪɡ

### Etymology 1

From Middle English fige, fygge (also fyke, from Old English fīc, see fike), borrowed from Anglo-Norman figue, borrowed from Old French figue, from Old Occitan figa, from Vulgar Latin *fīca (“fig”), from Latin fīcus (“fig tree”), from a pre-Indo European language, perhaps Phoenician 𐤐𐤂 (pg, literally “ripe fig”) (compare Biblical Hebrew פַּגָּה (paggâ, “early fallen fig”), Classical Syriac ܦܓܐ (paggāʾ), dialectal Arabic فَجّ (fajj), فِجّ (fijj)). (Another Semitic root (compare Akkadian 𒈠 (tīʾu, literally “fig”)) was borrowed into Ancient Greek as σῦκον (sûkon) (whence English sycophant; Boeotian τῦκον (tûkon)) and Armenian as թուզ (tʻuz).) The soap-making sense derives from the resemblance of the granulations in and texture of the soap to those of a fig. Doublet of fico.

#### Noun

fig (plural figs)
* The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds. [from 12th c.]
* A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics. [from 14th c.]
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 3:7:And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
* The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit. [from 15th c.]
** 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:I'll pledge you all; and a fig for Peter!
** 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 6, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:About Rebecca and Jos he did not care a fig.
** 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:J. senses the entente between Eva and me and doesn't like it one fig.
* A Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana", (cultivar of Musa acuminata) [from 16th c.]
* (Newfoundland, dated) A raisin (dried grape). [from 18th c.]
** figgy duff - boiled pudding with raisins
* A small piece of tobacco. [from 19th c.]
** 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 109:“You may flog, and welcome, master,” said he, “if you'll give me a fig o' tibbacky.”
** 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 289:This was followed by his presenting his sable acquaintance with a fig of tobacco, whereupon, instead of thanking the donor in the usual way, the black signified his gratitude by throwing a spear at twenty or thirty yards' distance.

##### Derived terms

* Benjamin fig
* caprifig
* care a fig
* cluster fig
* cochineal fig
* creeping fig
* devil's fig
* Eleme fig
* figbird
* fig-dust
* fig-eater
* figgy
* fig-leaf
* fig leaf
* figleaf
* fig-leafed
* fig-leaved
* figless
* figlet
* figlike
* fig marigold
* fig parrot
* figpecker
* fig roll
* fig-sew
* fig-sue
* fig tree
* figtree
* fig-wart
* fig wasp
* figwort
* flying fig
* give a fig
* goat fig
* Hottentot fig
* Indian fig
* mistletoe fig
* Moreton Bay fig
* not give a fig
* sacred fig
* strangler fig
* sycomore fig
* vine and fig-tree
* weeping fig

##### Descendants

* Tok Pisin: fik
* → Chuukese: fik
* → Maori: piki

##### Translations

Abkhaz: алаҳа́ (alaḥá)
Akkadian: 𒈠 (tittu)
Alviri-Vidari: اینجیل (injil) (Vidari)
Amharic: በለስ (bäläs)
Arabic: تِين (ar) m (tīn), بَلَس m (balas) (Yemen)
Egyptian Arabic: تين m (tīn) (collective), تينة f (tīna) (singulative)
Moroccan Arabic: كرموس m (karmūs) (collective), كرموسة f (karmūsa) (singulative)
Aragonese: figo
Armenian: թուզ (hy) (tʻuz)
Aromanian: hicã (roa-rup) f
Assamese: ডিমৰু (dimoru)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܹܐܢܵܐ m (tīna)
Asturian: figu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: əncir (az), incir (az)
Basque: piku (eu)
Bengali: ডুমুর (bn) (ḍumur)
Bulgarian: смокиня (bg) f (smokinja)
Catalan: figa (ca) f
Chechen: инжир (inžir)
Chichewa: mkungudza, nkhuyu
Chinese:
Cantonese: 無花果 / 无花果 (mou$^4$ faa$^1$ gwo$^2$)
Eastern Min: 無花果 / 无花果 (ù-huă-guō)
Hakka: 無花果 / 无花果 (vù-fâ-kó)
Hokkien: 無花果 / 无花果 (bû-hoa-kó), 文仙果 (bûn-sian-kó), 映日果 (iòng-ji̍t-kó), 優曇花 / 优昙花 (iu-thâm-hoe)
Mandarin: 無花果 / 无花果 (zh) (wúhuāguǒ)
Classical Nahuatl: īcox
Czech: fík (cs) m
Dalmatian: faica f
Danish: figen c
Dutch: vijg (nl) f
Egyptian: (dꜣb)
Elfdalian: fika f
Esperanto: figo (eo)
Estonian: viigimari (et), viik (et)
Extremaduran: higu
Faroese: fika f
Finnish: viikuna (fi)
French: figue (fr) f
Old French: figue f
Friulian: fîc
Galician: figo (gl) m
Ge'ez: በለስ (bäläs)
Georgian: ლეღვი (leɣvi)
German: Feige (de) f
Gothic: 𐍃𐌼𐌰𐌺𐌺𐌰 m (smakka)
Greek: σύκο (el) n (sýko)
Ancient: σῦκον n (sûkon)
Haitian Creole: fig frans
Hausa: ɓaure
Hebrew: תְּאֵנָה (he) f (tena)
Hindi: अंजीर (hi) (añjīr)
Hungarian: füge (hu)
Icelandic: fíkja (is) f
Ido: figo (io)
Indonesian: buah ara, buah tin (id)
Irish: fige f
Italian: fico (it) m
Japanese: 無花果 (ja) (いちじく, ichijiku, むかか, mukaka), 映日果 (いちじく, ichijiku, えいじつか, eijitsuka)
Kalmyk: инҗр (injr)
Kannada: ಅಂಜೂರ (kn) (añjūra)
Kashmiri: أنٛجیٖر (ạnjīr), اۆنٛجوٗر (onjūr)
Khmer: ផ្លែល្វា (plae lvie)
Korean: 무화과(無花果) (ko) (muhwagwa)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ھەنجیر (hencîr)
Northern Kurdish: hejîr (ku) f
Ladino: igo
Lao: ໝາກເດື່ອ (māk dư̄a)
Latin: ficus m or f
Latvian: vīģe f
Laz: ლუღი (luği)
Ligurian: fîgo m
Lithuanian: figa f
Low German: Fieg f
Luxembourgish: Fig f
Macedonian: смоква (mk) (smokva)
Malagasy: amontana (mg), aviavy (mg), voara (mg)
Malay: buah ara, buah tin
Malayalam: അത്തിപ്പഴം (attippaḻaṁ)
Maltese: tina f
Manx: fig f
Maori: piki
Marathi: अंजीर (mr) n (añjīr)
Mingrelian: ლუღი (luɣi)
Navajo: hashkʼaan
Neapolitan: fica f
Ngazidja Comorian: tini class 9/10
Northern Sami: fiikon
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fiken (no) m
Nynorsk: fiken m
Occitan: figa (oc) f
Old English: fīc m, fīcæppel m
Ottoman Turkish: انجیر (encir, incir), تین (tin)
Persian: انجیر (fa) (anjir)
Plautdietsch: Fiej f
Polish: figa (pl) f
Portuguese: figo (pt) m
Punjabi: ਅੰਜੀਰ (pa) f (añjīr)
Romanian: smochină (ro) f
Romansch: fig m
Russian: инжи́р (ru) m (inžír), смо́ква (ru) f (smókva), фи́га (ru) f (fíga)
Sanskrit: उडुम्बर (sa) m (uḍumbara), अञ्जीर (sa) n (añjīra)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: смо̏ква f
Roman: smȍkva (sh) f
Sicilian: ficu (scn) f
Slovak: figa (sk) f
Slovene: figa (sl) f
Somali: tiin
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: figa f
Spanish: higo (es) m, breva (es) f, figo (es) m (disused)
Sranan Tongo: figa
Swahili: tini (sw) class 5/6
Swedish: fikon (sv)
Sylheti: ꠒꠦꠃꠋꠞꠣ (ḍeuṅra)
Tagalog: sisiyo, igos
Tajik: анҷир (anjir)
Talysh: inci
Tamil: அத்தி (ta) (atti)
Tarifit: tazart f
Tashelhit: ⵜⴰⵣⴰⵔⵜ f (tazart)
Tat: incil
Telugu: అత్తి పండు (te) (atti paṇḍu)
Thai: มะเดื่อ (th) (má-dʉ̀ʉa)
Tigre: በለስ (bäläs)
Tigrinya: በለስ (bäläs)
Turkish: incir (tr)
Ukrainian: фі́га (uk) f (fíha), інжи́р (uk) m (inžýr)
Uzbek: anjir (uz)
Venetan: figo (vec) m
Vietnamese: sung (vi)
Volapük: fig (vo)
Walloon: fike (wa) f
Welsh: ffigysen f
Wolof: xël
Xhosa: uluzi
Yakan: igira
Yiddish: פֿײַג f (fayg)
Yoruba: ọpọtọ ni
Zazaki: incil n, hêjire (diq)
Zulu: ikhuwu, ikhiwane (zu) :

#### Verb

fig (third-person singular simple present figs, present participle figging, simple past and past participle figged)
* (obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
** c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like / The bragging Spaniard.
* (obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
* (soap-making, dated) To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations. [mid-1800s to mid-1900s]
** 1893, Henry Gathmann, American Soaps, page 204:For filling figged soaps silicate of potash is best adapted, as soda prevents in a measure the proper crystallization. [...] Artificially figged soap [...makes] a very close imitation of the naturally figged soap.
** 1897, The National Provisioner, page 27:Figging is usually considered to indicate a good quality of soft soap, but such is really not the case. A first-class soft soap can be made which will not fig, while, on the other hand, a poor soap can be produced which will fig.
** 1938, Harry Bennett, The Standard Book of Formulas:In the cold soaps, the water soluble color is added in liquid form after saponification has started. In figged soaps, the color is crutched in after saponification is completed.

#### Further reading

* fig on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* fig tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Ficus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

### Etymology 2

Variation of fike.

#### Verb

fig (third-person singular simple present figs, present participle figging, simple past and past participle figged)
* (intransitive) To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.

##### Derived terms

* figgle

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

fig (plural figs)
* Abbreviation of figure (“diagram or illustration”).
* (colloquial, dated) A person's figure; dress or appearance.

##### Alternative forms

* (abbreviation): fig.

#### Verb

fig (third-person singular simple present figs, present participle figging, simple past and past participle figged)
* (colloquial, dated, transitive) To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.

#### Related terms

* figgery
* go fig
* in full fig

### Etymology 4

See figging.

#### Verb

fig (third-person singular simple present figs, present participle figging, simple past and past participle figged)
* (transitive, rare) To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of (a horse): to perform figging upon; to feague, to feak.
    Synonym: ginger
** 1874, The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal, page 176:Ginger, a showy, fast horse — as if he had been figged with ginger under his tail; a red-haired man.
** 1901, Natal Agriculture Journal, page 744:He must be "figged." Figging consists in pushing a piece of crushed ginger into the return of the wretched creature — a practice which is now illegal, and of which information should be given to the R.S.P.C.A. whenever detected.
** 2015, Becky Lower, The Cotillion Ball Saga, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:“Is something amiss with the horse, Parr?” His gaze left the horse for a second as he glanced at Grace. “Yes, the horse has been figged. Now I just need to figure out who the culprit is.”

#### Noun

fig (plural figs)
* The piece of ginger root used in figging.

### References

* ↑ Andreas Franz and Wilhelm Schimper, Plant Geography Upon a Physiological Basis, volume 2 (Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1902), page 100

### Anagrams

* FGI, GFI, GIF, IGF, gif

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French figue (“fig”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fiɡ/

### Noun

fig
* banana
    Synonym: bannann

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfik/
* Rhymes: -ik
* Syllabification: fig
* Homophone: fik

### Noun

fig f
* genitive plural of figa

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ficus.

### Noun

fig m (plural figi)
* (obsolete) fig tree

#### Declension
### References

* fig in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

## Volapük
### Noun

fig (nominative plural figs)
* fig

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only