# fi

| ﬁ | U+FB01, &#64257; LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI |
| ← ﬀ [U+FB00] | Alphabetic Presentation Forms | ﬂ → [U+FB02] |

## Translingual
### Symbol

fi
* (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Finnish.

## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: fē, fī, IPA: /fiː/, /faɪ/
* Rhymes: -iː, -aɪ
* Homophones: fee or fie

### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

fi
* (music) The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the sharp of the fourth note of a major scale.

### Etymology 2

Abbreviation

#### Noun

fi (uncountable)
* (in combination) Abbreviation of fidelity. (e.g. in hi-fi, lo-fi, or wi-fi)
* (in combination) Abbreviation of fiction. (e.g. in sci-fi)

##### Related terms

* cli-fi
* psych-fi
* spy-fi

### Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Preposition

fi
* (Jamaica) Alternative form of to
** 2004, Deborah A. Thomas, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hul, Modern Blackness Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica:We shoulda try fi produce more and market the things we have better so we can buy the things we need fi buy
** 2005, Sean Paul (lyrics and music), “Temperature”:I got the right temperature fi shelter you from the storm
** 2021, Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family, page 76:After the funeral you need fi find somewhere else fi live

### See also

* fee-fi-fo-fum
* fi fa
* fi-fi
* semper fi
* ych a fi

### References

“fi”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* IF, if

## Bavarian
### Preposition

fi
* Alternative form of fia
    Isch fi enk enkro Dialekt lai a Dialekt oddo an eigna Schprouche?Is your dialect just a dialect for you or is it a whole language?

## Bourguignon
### Etymology

From Latin filius.

### Noun

fi m (plural fis)
* son

#### Derived terms

* filleu
* fillôt

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfi]

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin fīnis. Compare Occitan fin, French fin, Italian fine.

#### Noun

fi f (plural fins)
* finish; the end

##### Derived terms

* a la fi
* al cap i a la fi
* en fi
* fi de segle
* fins i tot
* per fi

### Etymology 2

From the same source as the above (with similar occurrences in most Romance languages), or less likely, possibly originally from fidus, which also gave Old Occitan fi, phonetically.

#### Adjective

fi (feminine fina, masculine plural fins, feminine plural fines)
* fine, thin
* soft, smooth
* sharp, keen

##### Derived terms

* finament
* finesa
* finor
* superfí

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin phi, from Ancient Greek φεῖ (pheî).

#### Noun

fi f (plural fis)
* phi; the Greek letter Φ (lowercase φ)

### Further reading

* “fi” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “fi” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “fi” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

### References

* ↑ “fi”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From French fi, Latin fī. Compare German pfui.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [fi]
* Hyphenation: fi

### Interjection

fi
* For shame!
    "Jes, mi frapis mian frateton kaj mi ne bedaŭras ĝin!" "Ho, fi!""Yes, I hit my little brother and I'm not sorry about it!" "Oh, for shame!"
    Fi al vi! ― Shame on you!

#### Derived terms

* fi-

## Fas
### Noun

fi
* water

### References

* ASJP, citing W. Baron, Kwomtari Survey (1983, SIL)

## French
### Etymology

Latin fi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fi/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Homophones: fie, fient, fies

### Interjection

fi
* (archaic) faugh, fie, bah, pooh

#### Derived terms

* faire fi
* faire fi de

### Further reading

* “fi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin fīlius.

### Noun

fi m (plural fis)
* son

#### Related terms

* fie
* fioç

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French fille (“girl, daughter”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fi/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

fi
* girl
* daughter

#### Related terms

* tifi

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -fi

### Etymology 1

See under fiú.

#### Noun

fi (plural fiak)
* (archaic, today only in compounds) son, child, offspring (of a human or an animal)
    Synonym: fiú
* (archaic, today only in compounds) a smaller part of a building or a piece of furniture, cf. fiók (“drawer”)

##### Declension

The accusative and the plural form can also be fiat and fiak, respectively, although fit, fik (the shorter versions) are more usual here.
The possessive-suffixed forms can also be fim etc., although the fiam etc. forms (the longer versions) are more usual here.

##### Derived terms

* fiók
* atyafi
* baromfi
* divatfi
* egyházfi
* hadfi
* harcfi
* hazafi
* honfi
* királyfi
* kurafi
* múzsafi
* nyúlfi
* rókafi
* szerencsefi
* úrfi
* világfi

### Etymology 2
#### Interjection

fi
* (rare, literary) yuck, ugh, boo (expression of disgust or contempt, sometimes like a symbolic spitting)
    Synonyms: fuj, pfuj

### Etymology 3

From Latin phi, from Ancient Greek φεῖ (pheî).

#### Noun

fi (plural fik) (the plural form is rare)
* Phi; the Greek letter Φ (lowercase φ).

##### Declension

(suffixed forms are rare)

### References

* 1 2 Inflected forms

### Further reading

* (son): fi 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
* (yuck): fi 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

## Jamaican Creole
### Etymology

From English for to.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɪ/
* Hyphenation: fi

### Preposition

fi
* for
    Mi head a hot mi. Yuh have supn can gimme fi it?I have a headache. Can you give me something for the pain?
** 2016, Sylvia Gilfillian, The Road to Timnath: Di Ruod Tu Timnat (in Jamaican Creole), →ISBN:“A wanda how dem come fi tink dat di trial a di pastor is a fittin event fi a pikni witness. […] ”I asked myself how they could possibly think that the pastor's trial would be an appropriate event for children to see. […]
* (+ infinitive) to
    Wi wah fi know wah gwaan.We want to know what's going on.
** 2016, Sylvia Gilfillian, The Road to Timnath: Di Ruod Tu Timnat (in Jamaican Creole), →ISBN:“Me look up to di platform and see about eight wooden chairs up deh. Me eyeball dem fi see which wan a dem me kuda move because some a dem carve outa solid wood and look well heavy. […] ”I looked up at the platform and saw about eight wooden chairs up there. I studied them to see which one I could move because some of them were made of solid wood and looked extremely heavy. […]
* (interrogative) (+ infinitive) can
    How dem fi do dat?How can they do a thing like that?
** 2018, Shelley Sykes-Coley, Chat ’Bout!: An Anthology of Jamaican Conversations (in Jamaican Creole), →ISBN:“How unnu fi walk an' nyam, an' litter di street? Mi jus' cyaan andastan' how unno fi dweet. […] ”How can you walk and eat, and throw litter in the street? I just can't understand how you can do it. […]
* (+ infinitive) should
    Im fi tap it. It a guh mash 'im up.He/She should stop doing that. It's going to wreck him/her.
** 2013, Selvin McRae, The Guilty Truth Revealed (in Jamaican Creole), →ISBN, page 108:“Mi pickney unnu fi look n love nuff money Horse pon track cah gallop without money […] ”My children, you should seek and desire a lot of money A horse on a track can't race without money […]

### References

* ↑ Larry Chang (2014) Biesik Jumiekan: Introduction to Jamaican Language, Chuu Wod, →ISBN, page 24

### Further reading

* Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 229
* fi – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary

## Japanese
### Romanization

fi
* The katakana syllable フィ (fi) in Hepburn-like romanization.

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfiː/, [ˈfiː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfi/, [ˈfiː]

### Interjection

fī
* pah!, pooh!, foh!, bah!, an expression of disgust
    Fi, fi fetet!Pah, it stinks!

#### Descendants

* English: fy, fie
* Esperanto: fi

### Verb

fī
* second-person singular present passive imperative of faciō

### References

* “fi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “fi”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

## Malay
### Etymology

Borrowed from English fee.

### Noun

fi (Jawi spelling في, plural fi-fi, informal 1st possessive fiku, 2nd possessive fimu, 3rd possessive finya)
* fee
    Synonyms: yuran, caj

### References

* “fi” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Maltese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɪ/

### Preposition

fi
* Alternative form of f’: used before a consonant cluster

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfi/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -i
* Syllabification: fi

### Noun

fi n (indeclinable)
* Alternative spelling of phi

### Further reading

* fi in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* fi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* phi (pre-reform spelling)

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈfi/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈfi/
* Rhymes: -i

### Noun

fi m (plural fis)
* phi (name of the Greek letter Φ)

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* фи (fi) — Moldovan Cyrillic spelling
* hi — dialectal

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin sum. The citation form and the f- conjugations come from Vulgar Latin *fīre < Latin fierī (“become”). Compare Aromanian hiu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [fi]
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

a fi (third-person singular present este or e, past participle fost) 4th conjugation
* (with a predicate adjective or predicate nominative) to be
    Ea este frumoasă. ― She is beautiful.
    Aceasta este o casă. ― This is a house.
* (with a predicate adjective and an indirect object) to feel (to experience a certain condition)
    Îmi e frig. ― I feel cold. (literally, “To me it is cold.”)
    Îmi este rău. ― I feel sick.
* to be it in a game of tag
    Leapșa, tu ești! ― Tag, you're it!

#### Usage notes

* One can also use e as an informal variant of the third-person singular present tense, este.
* The second entries in the simple perfect row represent the informal variants.

#### Conjugation

* Additionally there are sînt, sîntem, sînteți for sunt, suntem, sunteți, see the usage notes in sunt for more.

#### Derived terms

* ființă
* fiindcă
* fire

### References

* fi in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* fieu (Rumantsch Grischun)
* fiug (Sursilvan)
* fia, fiac (Sutsilvan)
* fö (Puter, Vallader)

### Etymology

From Latin focus (“hearth, fireplace”).

### Noun

fi m
* (Surmiran) fire

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfi/ [ˈfi]
* Rhymes: -i
* Syllabification: fi

### Noun

fi f (plural fíes)
* phi; the Greek letter Φ, φ

### Further reading

* “fi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

Shortening of fienden (“the enemy”).

### Noun

fi
* Only used in lede fi

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Arabic فِي (fī)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fiː/

### Preposition

fi
* (archaic) at (often used with prices or dates)

### Notes

(A surviving fixed expression is"fi tarihinde". Please clarify, if it means at an unspecified earlier date or at an aforementioned date.)

### See also

* filvaki
* filhal

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /viː/
* Rhymes: -iː

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *mī.

#### Pronoun

fi
* I, me

##### See also

* i (“I, me”)
* mi (“I, me”)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

fi f (plural fiau, not mutable)
* The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) llythyren; a, bi, ec, èch, di, èdd, e, èf, èff, èg, eng, aetsh, i / i dot, je, ce, el, èll, em, en, o, pi, ffi, ciw, er, rhi, ès, ti, èth, u / u bedol / u gwpan, fi, w, ecs, y, sèd

## West Makian
### Etymology 1

From Proto-North Halmahera *kahi (“skin”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɸi/

#### Noun

fi
* skin
    ituka mefi ― it's shedding its skin (of a snake)
* bark
    fete de fi ― tree bark
* shell
    laia de fi ― shellfish shell

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɸi/

#### Verb

fi
* to come up (from below)

### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

## Yoruba
### Alternative forms

* فِ

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

IPA: /fí/

#### Noun

fí
* The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) lẹ́tà; á, bí, dí, é, ẹ́, fí, gí, gbì, hí, í, jí, kí, lí, mí, ní, ó, ọ́, pí, rí, sí, ṣí, tí, ú, wí, yí

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

IPA: /fi/

#### Verb

fi
* (auxiliary verb) to use something to do something else (must be used with another verb)

##### Usage notes

This verb cannot be used on its own with an object and must be used with a second verb to show purpose. In the case of simply using an object without any purpose, lò must be used instead.
* "Mo fi ṣíbí jẹ ìrẹsì." – I used a spoon to eat rice. (uses a second verb, jẹ, along with fi)
* "Mo lo ṣíbí." – I used a spoon. (uses lò, changed to lo before an object noun, since there's no second verb for purpose)

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

IPA: /fí/

#### Verb

fí
* (transitive) to swing
* (transitive) to swirl, to centrifuge