fi

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

fi

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

• enPR: fē, fī, IPA^(key): /fiː/, /faɪ/
• Rhymes: -iː, -aɪ
• Homophones: fee or fie

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

fi

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

Abbreviation

fi (uncountable)

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

• cli-fi
• psych-fi
• spy-fi

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fi

1. (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

“fi”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• IF, if

fi

1. 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?

From Latin filius.

fi m (plural fis)

1. son

• filleu
• fillôt

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfi]

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

fi f (plural fins)

1. finish; the end

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.^[1]

fi (feminine fina, masculine plural fins, feminine plural fines)

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

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

fi f (plural fis)

1. phi; the Greek letter Φ (lowercase φ)

• “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.

From French fi, Latin fī. Compare German pfui.

• Audio:

  (file)

• IPA^(key): [fi]
• Hyphenation: fi

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!

• fi-

fi

1. water

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

Imitative.

• IPA^(key): /fi/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

• Homophones: fie, fient, fies

fi

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

• faire fi
• faire fi de

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

From Latin fīlius.

fi m (plural fis)

1. son

• fie
• fioç

From French fille (“girl, daughter”).

• IPA^(key): /fi/

• Audio:

  (file)

fi

1. girl
2. daughter

• tifi

• Rhymes: -fi

See under fiú.

fi (plural fiak)

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”)

The accusative and the plural form can also be fiat and fiak, respectively, although fit, fik (the shorter versions) are more usual here.^[1]

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	fi	fik
accusative	fit	fikat
dative	finak	fiknak
instrumental	fival	fikkal
causal-final	fiért	fikért
translative	fivá	fikká
terminative	fiig	fikig
essive-formal	fiként	fikként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	fiban	fikban
superessive	fin	fikon
adessive	finál	fiknál
illative	fiba	fikba
sublative	fira	fikra
allative	fihoz	fikhoz
elative	fiból	fikból
delative	firól	fikról
ablative	fitól	fiktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	fié	fiké
non-attributive possessive - plural	fiéi	fikéi

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	fi	fiak
accusative	fiat	fiakat
dative	finak	fiaknak
instrumental	fival	fiakkal
causal-final	fiért	fiakért
translative	fivá	fiakká
terminative	fiig	fiakig
essive-formal	fiként	fiakként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	fiban	fiakban
superessive	fin	fiakon
adessive	finál	fiaknál
illative	fiba	fiakba
sublative	fira	fiakra
allative	fihoz	fiakhoz
elative	fiból	fiakból
delative	firól	fiakról
ablative	fitól	fiaktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	fié	fiaké
non-attributive possessive - plural	fiéi	fiakéi

The possessive-suffixed forms can also be fim etc., although the fiam etc. forms (the longer versions) are more usual here.^[1]

Possessive forms of fi
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	fiam	fiaim
2nd person sing.	fiad	fiaid
3rd person sing.	fia	fiai
1st person plural	fiunk	fiaink
2nd person plural	fiatok	fiaitok
3rd person plural	fiuk	fiaik

Possessive forms of fi
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	fim	fiaim (or fiim)
2nd person sing.	fid	fiaid (or fiid)
3rd person sing.	fija	fiai (or fii)
1st person plural	fink	fiaink (or fiink)
2nd person plural	fitok	fiaitok (or fiitok)
3rd person plural	fijuk	fiaik (or fiik)

fi

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

   Synonyms: fuj, pfuj

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

fi (plural fik) (the plural form is rare)

1. Phi; the Greek letter Φ (lowercase φ).

(suffixed forms are rare)

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	fi	fik
accusative	fit	fiket
dative	finek	fiknek
instrumental	fivel	fikkel
causal-final	fiért	fikért
translative	fivé	fikké
terminative	fiig	fikig
essive-formal	fiként	fikként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	fiben	fikben
superessive	fin	fiken
adessive	finél	fiknél
illative	fibe	fikbe
sublative	fire	fikre
allative	fihez	fikhez
elative	fiből	fikből
delative	firől	fikről
ablative	fitől	fiktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	fié	fiké
non-attributive possessive - plural	fiéi	fikéi

• (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

From English for to.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪ/
• Hyphenation: fi

fi

1. 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, →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. […]

2. (+ 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, →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. […]

3. (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, →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. […]

4. (+ 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, →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 […]

• 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

fi

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fiː/, [fiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fi/, [fiː]

fī

1. pah!, pooh!, foh!, bah!, an expression of disgust

   Fi, fi fetet!

   Pah, it stinks!

• English: fy, fie
• Esperanto: fi

fī

1. second-person singular present passive imperative of faciō

• “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

Borrowed from English fee.

fi (Jawi spelling في, plural fi-fi, informal 1st possessive fiku, 2nd possessive fimu, 3rd possessive finya)

1. fee

   Synonyms: yuran, caj

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

• IPA^(key): /fɪ/

fi

1. Alternative form of f’: used before a consonant cluster

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: fi

fi n (indeclinable)

1. Alternative spelling of phi

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

• phi (obsolete)

• Rhymes: -i

fi m (plural fis)

1. phi (name of the Greek letter Φ)

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

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

• IPA^(key): [fi]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

a fi (third-person singular present este or e, past participle fost) 4th conj.

1. (with a predicate adjective or predicate nominative) to be

   Ea este frumoasă. ― She is beautiful.

   Aceasta este o casă. ― This is a house.

2. (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.

3. to be it in a game of tag

   Leapșa, tu ești! ― Tag, you're it!

• 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.

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

• ființă
• fiindcă
• fire

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

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

From Latin focus (“hearth, fireplace”).

fi m

1. (Surmiran) fire

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

fi f (plural fíes)

1. phi; the Greek letter Φ, φ

• “fi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

Shortening of fienden (“the enemy”).

fi

1. Only used in lede fi

From Arabic فِي (fī)

• IPA^(key): /fiː/

fi

1. (archaic) Archaic preposition meaning at, often used with prices or dates.

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

• filvaki
• filhal

• IPA^(key): /viː/
• Rhymes: -iː

From Proto-Celtic *mī.

fi

1. I, me

• i (“I, me”)
• mi (“I, me”)

fi f (plural fiau, not mutable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

• (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

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

• IPA^(key): /ɸi/

fi

1. skin

   ituka mefi ― it's shedding its skin (of a snake)

2. bark

   fete de fi ― tree bark

3. shell

   laia de fi ― shellfish shell

• IPA^(key): /ɸi/

fi

1. to come up (from below)

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

• فِ

IPA^(key): /fí/

fí

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

• (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

IPA^(key): /fi/

fi

1. (auxiliary verb) to use something to do something else (must be used with another verb)

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.

1. "Mo fi ṣíbí jẹ ìrẹsì." – I used a spoon to eat rice. (uses a second verb, jẹ, along with fi)
2. "Mo lo ṣíbí." – I used a spoon. (uses lò, changed to lo before an object noun, since there's no second verb for purpose)

IPA^(key): /fí/

fí

1. (transitive) to swing
2. (transitive) to swirl, to centrifuge