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U+FB01,fi
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI

[U+FB00]
Alphabetic Presentation Forms
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See also:Fi,FI,fi-,.fi,fi.,,andAppendix:Variations of "fi"

Translingual

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Symbol

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fi

  1. (international standards)ISO 639-1language code forFinnish.

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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fi

  1. (music) Thesolfeggio syllable used to indicate thesharp of the fourth note of amajor scale.

Etymology 2

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Abbreviation

Noun

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fi (uncountable)

  1. (in combination)Abbreviation offidelity.(e.g. inhi-fi,lo-fi, orwi-fi)
  2. (in combination)Abbreviation offiction.(e.g. insci-fi)
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Etymology 3

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(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

Preposition

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fi

  1. (Jamaica)Alternative form ofto
    • 2004, Deborah A. Thomas, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hul,Modern Blackness Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica:
      We shoulda tryfi produce more and market the things we have better so we can buy the things we needfi buy
    • 2005, Sean Paul, “Temperature”:
      I got the right temperaturefi shelter you from the storm
    • 2021, Maisy Card,These Ghosts Are Family, page76:
      After the funeral you needfi find somewhere elsefi live

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etymologically unrelated terms

References

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fi”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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Bavarian

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Preposition

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fi

  1. Alternative form offia
    Ischfienk enkro Dialekt lai a Dialekt oddo an eigna Schprouche?
    Isyour dialect just a dialect foryou or is it a whole language?

Bourguignon

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Etymology

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FromLatinfilius.

Noun

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fi m (pluralfis)

  1. son

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Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited fromLatinfīnis. CompareOccitanfin,Frenchfin,Italianfine.

Noun

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fi f (pluralfins)

  1. finish; the end
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Etymology 2

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From the same source as the above (with similar occurrences in most Romance languages), or less likely, possibly originally fromfidus, which also gave Old Occitanfi, phonetically.[1]

Adjective

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fi (femininefina,masculine pluralfins,feminine pluralfines)

  1. fine,thin
  2. soft,smooth
  3. sharp,keen
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Etymology 3

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Borrowed fromLatinphi, fromAncient Greekφεῖ(pheî).

Noun

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fi f (pluralfis)

  1. phi; theGreek letterΦ (lowercaseφ)

Further reading

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References

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  1. ^fi”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025

Esperanto

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Etymology

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FromFrenchfi,Latin. Compare Germanpfui.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

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fi

  1. 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

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Fas

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Noun

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fi

  1. water

References

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

French

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Etymology

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Latinfi.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

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fi

  1. (archaic)faugh,fie,bah,pooh

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Friulian

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Etymology

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FromLatinfīlius.

Noun

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fi m (pluralfis)

  1. son

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Haitian Creole

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Haitian CreoleWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediaht

Etymology

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FromFrenchfille(girl, daughter).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fi

  1. girl
  2. daughter

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Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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See underfiú.

Noun

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fi (pluralfiak)

  1. (archaic, today only in compounds)son,child,offspring(of a human or an animal)
    Synonym:fiú
  2. (archaic, today only in compounds)a smaller part of a building or a piece of furniture, cf.fiók(drawer)
Declension
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The accusative and the plural form can also befiat andfiak, respectively, althoughfit, fik (the shorter versions) are more usual here.[1]

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singularplural
nominativefifik
accusativefitfikat
dativefinakfiknak
instrumentalfivalfikkal
causal-finalfiértfikért
translativefiváfikká
terminativefiigfikig
essive-formalfikéntfikként
essive-modal
inessivefibanfikban
superessivefinfikon
adessivefinálfiknál
illativefibafikba
sublativefirafikra
allativefihozfikhoz
elativefibólfikból
delativefirólfikról
ablativefitólfiktól
non-attributive
possessive – singular
fiéfiké
non-attributive
possessive – plural
fiéifikéi
Inflection (stem in-a-, back harmony)
singularplural
nominativefifiak
accusativefiatfiakat
dativefinakfiaknak
instrumentalfivalfiakkal
causal-finalfiértfiakért
translativefiváfiakká
terminativefiigfiakig
essive-formalfikéntfiakként
essive-modal
inessivefibanfiakban
superessivefinfiakon
adessivefinálfiaknál
illativefibafiakba
sublativefirafiakra
allativefihozfiakhoz
elativefibólfiakból
delativefirólfiakról
ablativefitólfiaktól
non-attributive
possessive – singular
fiéfiaké
non-attributive
possessive – plural
fiéifiakéi

The possessive-suffixed forms can also befim etc., although thefiam etc. forms (the longer versions) are more usual here.[1]

Possessive forms offi
possessorsingle possessionmultiple possessions
1st person sing.fiamfiaim
2nd person sing.fiadfiaid
3rd person sing.fiafiai
1st person pluralfiunkfiaink
2nd person pluralfiatokfiaitok
3rd person pluralfiukfiaik
Possessive forms offi
possessorsingle possessionmultiple possessions
1st person sing.fimfiaim(orfiim)
2nd person sing.fidfiaid(orfiid)
3rd person sing.fijafiai(orfii)
1st person pluralfinkfiaink(orfiink)
2nd person pluralfitokfiaitok(orfiitok)
3rd person pluralfijukfiaik(orfiik)
Derived terms
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Compound words with this term at the beginning
Compound words with this term at the end

Etymology 2

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Interjection

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fi

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

Etymology 3

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FromLatinphi, fromAncient Greekφεῖ(pheî).

Noun

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fi (pluralfik)(the plural form is rare)

  1. Phi; theGreek letterΦ (lowercaseφ).
Declension
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(suffixed forms are rare)

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singularplural
nominativefifik
accusativefitfiket
dativefinekfiknek
instrumentalfivelfikkel
causal-finalfiértfikért
translativefivéfikké
terminativefiigfikig
essive-formalfikéntfikként
essive-modal
inessivefibenfikben
superessivefinfiken
adessivefinélfiknél
illativefibefikbe
sublativefirefikre
allativefihezfikhez
elativefibőlfikből
delativefirőlfikről
ablativefitőlfiktől
non-attributive
possessive – singular
fiéfiké
non-attributive
possessive – plural
fiéifikéi

References

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  1. 1.01.1Inflected forms

Further reading

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  • (son):fi in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
  • (yuck):fi in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.

Jamaican Creole

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Etymology

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FromEnglishfor to.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfɪ/
  • Hyphenation:fi

Preposition

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fi

  1. for
    Mi head a hot mi. Yuh have supn can gimmefi it?
    I have a headache. Can you give me somethingfor 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 eventfi a pikni witness.[]
      I asked myself how they could possibly think that the pastor's trial would be an appropriate eventfor children to see. []
  2. (+ infinitive)to
    Wi wahfi know wah gwaan.
    We wantto 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 demfi 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 themto see which one I could move because some of them were made of solid wood and looked extremely heavy. []
  3. (interrogative)(+ infinitive)can
    How demfi do dat?
    Howcan they do a thing like that?
    • 2018, Shelley Sykes-Coley,Chat ’Bout!: An Anthology of Jamaican Conversations (in Jamaican Creole),→ISBN:
      “How unnufi walk an' nyam, an' litter di street?
      Mi jus' cyaan andastan' how unnofi dweet.[]
      Howcan you walk and eat, and throw litter in the street?
      I just can't understand how youcan do it. []
  4. (+ infinitive)should
    Imfi tap it. It a guh mash 'im up.
    He/Sheshould stop doing that. It's going to wreck him/her.
    • 2013, Selvin McRae,The Guilty Truth Revealed (in Jamaican Creole),→ISBN, page108:
      “Mi pickney unnufi look n love nuff money
      Horse pon track cah gallop without money[]
      My children, youshould seek and desire a lot of money
      A horse on a track can't race without money []

References

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  1. ^Larry Chang (2014)Biesik Jumiekan: Introduction to Jamaican Language, Chuu Wod,→ISBN, page24

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Japanese

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Romanization

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fi

  1. Thekatakana syllableフィ(fi) inHepburn-like romanization.

Latin

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Pronunciation

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Interjection

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

Descendants

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Verb

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  1. second-personsingularpresentpassiveimperative offaciō

References

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

Malay

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishfee.

Noun

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fi (Jawi spellingفي,pluralfi-fi)

  1. fee
    Synonyms:yuran,caj

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Maltese

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Pronunciation

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Preposition

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fi

  1. Alternative form off’:used before a consonant cluster

Polish

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PolishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediapl

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fi n (indeclinable)

  1. Alternative spelling ofphi

Further reading

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  • fi inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • fi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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PortugueseWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediapt

Alternative forms

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  • phi(pre-reform spelling)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fi m (pluralfis)

  1. phi (name of the Greek letterΦ)

Romanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited fromLatinsum. The citation form and thef- conjugations come fromVulgar Latin*fīre <Latinfierī(become). CompareAromanianhiu.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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a fi (third-person singular presentesteore,past participlefost) 4th conjugation

  1. (with a predicate adjective or predicate nominative) tobe
    Eaeste frumoasă.Sheis beautiful.
    Aceastaeste o casă.Thisis a house.
  2. (with a predicate adjective and an indirect object) tofeel(to experience a certain condition)
    Îmie frig.Ifeel cold. (literally, “To meit is cold.”)
    Îmieste rău.Ifeel sick.
  3. tobeit in a game oftag
    Leapșa, tuești!Tag,you're it!

Usage notes

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  • One can also usee 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

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Conjugation offi(fourth conjugation)
infinitivea fi
gerundfiind
past participlefost
numbersingularplural
person1st person2nd person3rd person1st person2nd person3rd person
indicativeeutuel/eanoivoiei/ele
presentsunteștieste,esuntemsuntețisunt
imperfecterameraieraeramerațierau
simple perfectfusei,fuifuseși,fușifuse,fufuserăm,furămfuserăți,furățifuseră,fură
pluperfectfusesemfuseseșifusesefuseserămfuseserățifuseseră
subjunctiveeutuel/eanoivoiei/ele
presentfiufiifiefimfițifie
imperativetuvoi
affirmativefiifiți
negativenu finufiți

Derived terms

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References

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Romansch

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromLatinfocus(hearth, fireplace).

Noun

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fi m

  1. (Surmiran)fire

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfi/[ˈfi]
  • Rhymes:-i
  • Syllabification:fi

Noun

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fi f (pluralfíes)

  1. phi; the Greek letterΦ,φ

Further reading

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Shortening offienden(the enemy).

Noun

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fi

  1. Only used inlede fi

Turkish

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Etymology

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FromArabicفِي()

Pronunciation

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Preposition

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fi

  1. (archaic)at(often used with prices or dates)

Notes

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

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Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromProto-Celtic*mī.

Pronoun

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fi

  1. I,me
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  • i(I, me)
  • mi(I, me)

Etymology 2

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Noun

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fi f (pluralfiau,not mutable)

  1. The name of theLatin-script letterV/v.

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West Makian

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Etymology 1

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FromProto-North Halmahera*kahi(skin).

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Noun

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fi

  1. skin
    ituka mefiit's shedding itsskin (of a snake)
  2. bark
    fete defitreebark
  3. shell
    laia defishellfishshell

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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fi

  1. tocomeup (frombelow)

References

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  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982)The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics

Yoruba

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /fí/

Noun

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  1. The name of theLatin-script letterF/f.

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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /fi/

Verb

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fi

  1. (auxiliary verb) touse something todo something else(must be used with another verb)
Usage notes
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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, must be used instead.

  1. "Mofi ṣíbí jẹ ìrẹsì." –I used a spoon to eat rice. (uses a second verb,jẹ, along withfi)
  2. "Molo ṣíbí." –I used a spoon. (uses, changed tolo before an object noun, since there's no second verb for purpose)

Etymology 3

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Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /fí/

Verb

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  1. (transitive) toswing
  2. (transitive) toswirl, tocentrifuge
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