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Definition: Fig |
FigNoun1. A diagram or picture illustrating textual material; "the area covered can be seen from Figure 2". 2. Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit. 3. Fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fig" was first used: 12th century. (references) |
Etymology: Fig \Fig\, noun. [French figue the fruit of the tree, Pr. figa, from Latin ficus fig tree, fig. Compare to Fico.]. (references) |
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19th Century Satire | Nothing. Note, "I don't care a fig," etc. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Bible | Fig First mentioned in Gen. 3:7. The fig-tree is mentioned (Deut. 8:8) as one of the valuable products of Palestine. It was a sign of peace and prosperity (1 Kings 4:25; Micah 4:4; Zech. 3:10). Figs were used medicinally (2 Kings 20:7), and pressed together and formed into "cakes" as articles of diet (1 Sam. 30:12; Jer. 24:2). Our Lord's cursing the fig-tree near Bethany (Mark 11:13) has occasioned much perplexity from the circumstance, as mentioned by the evangelist, that "the time of figs was not yet." The explanation of the words, however, lies in the simple fact that the fruit of the fig-tree appears before the leaves, and hence that if the tree produced leaves it ought also to have had fruit. It ought to have had fruit if it had been true to its "pretensions," in showing its leaves at this particular season. "This tree, so to speak, vaunted itself to be in advance of all the other trees, challenged the passer-by that he should come and refresh himself with its fruit. Yet when the Lord accepted its challenge and drew near, it proved to be but as the others, without fruit as they; for indeed, as the evangelist observes, the time of figs had not yet arrived. Its fault, if one may use the word, lay in its pretensions, in its making a show to run before the rest when it did not so indeed" (Trench, Miracles). The fig-tree of Palestine (Ficus carica) produces two and sometimes three crops of figs in a year, (1) the bikkurah, or "early-ripe fig" (Micah 7:1; Isa. 28:4; Hos. 9:10, R.V.), which is ripe about the end of June, dropping off as soon as it is ripe (Nah. 3:12); (2) the kermus, or "summer fig," then begins to be formed, and is ripe about August; and (3) the pag (plural "green figs," Cant. 2:13; Gr. olynthos, Rev. 6:13, "the untimely fig"), or "winter fig," which ripens in sheltered spots in spring. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Food & Agriculture | Fruit of the Ficus carica species. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A soft pear-shaped fruit with many seeds, eaten fresh or dried. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Fig Full fig. Full dress. A corruption of the Italian in fiocchi (in gala costume). It was derived from the tassels with which horses were ornamented in state processions. Thus we read in Miss Knight's Autobiography, "The Pope's throne was set out for mass, and the whole building was in perfect fiocchi" (in full fig). Another etymology has been suggested by a correspondent in Notes and Queries, that it is taken from the word full fig. (figure) in fashion books. "The Speaker sits at one end all in full fig, with a clerk at the table below." - Trollope: West Indies, chap. ix. p. 101. Fig or Figo. I don't care a fig for you; not worth a fig. Anything at all. Here fig is fico - a fillip or snap of the fingers. Thus we say, "I don't care that for you," snapping the fingers at the same time. (Italian, far le fiche, to snap the fingers; French, faire la figue; German, diefeigen weisen; Dutch, de vyghe setten, etc.) (See Fico.) "A fig for Peter." Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI., ii. 9. "The figo for thy friendship." Shakespeare: Henry V., iii. 6. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Figs Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Urticales Family: Moraceae Genus: Ficus Species Ficus altissima
Ficus americana
Ficus aurea
Ficus benghalensis
Ficus benjamina
Ficus broadwayi
Ficus carica
Ficus citrifolia
Ficus drupacea
Ficus elastica
Ficus godeffroyi
Ficus grenadensis
Ficus hartii
Ficus lyrata
Ficus macbrideii
Ficus microcarpa
Ficus nota
Ficus obtusifolia
Ficus palmata
Ficus prolixa
Ficus pumila
Ficus racemosa
Ficus religiosa
Ficus rubiginosa
Ficus stahlii
Ficus sycomorus
Ficus thonningii
Ficus tinctoria
Ficus tobagensis
Ficus triangularis
Ficus trigonata
Ficus ulmifolia
Ficus vogelii Ref: ITIS 19081
as of 2002-08-3Figs (Genus Ficus) are a group of woody, tropical vines, trees and shrubs in the Family Moraceae, which includes one species (F. carica) that produces a commercial fruit called a fig. Other examples of figs include the banyan and the peepul (or bo) tree.
A fig is actually a specially adapted flower. The fruit has a bulbous shape (an accessory fruit called a syconium) with a small opening (the ostiole) in the end and a hollow area inside lined with small red edible seeds. The fruit/flower is pollinated by small wasps that crawl through the opening to fertilise the fruit.
Common fig leaves and fruitThe common fig, Ficus carica, a native of the Mediterranean area, is cultivated for its fruit. In the United States, figs are grown in California, Texas, Utah, Oregon, and Washington.Figs can be eaten fresh or dried, and used in jam-making.
Figs come in two sexes: hermaphrodite (called caprifigs because only goats eat them) and female. Fig wasps grow in caprifigs; when they mature, they mate, and the females leave in search of immature figs to lay their eggs in. When the wasp finds one, she pollinates the female flowers but will not lay eggs in the edible fig, only in the caprifig. Thus the edible fig ripens without any wasp frass in it.
When a caprifig ripens, another caprifig must be ready to be pollinated. Tropical figs bear continuously, enabling fruit-eating animals to survive the time between masts. In temperate climes, wasps hibernate in figs, and there are distinct crops. Caprifigs have three crops per year; edible figs have two. The first of the two is small and is called breba; the breba figs are \'olynths'. In Christian legend, Adam and Eve clad themselves with fig leaves after eating the apple from the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
See also
- List of fruits
- List of vegetables
- Food
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
fig | Dutch | Figuur | Language, Publishing & Graphic Arts |
FIG | English | Fast information group | N/A |
FIG | French | Fédération internationale des géomètres | N/A |
fig | Italian | Figura | Language, Publishing & Graphic Arts |
| Fig. | Danish | Figur | Language, Publishing & Graphic Arts |
| Fig. | French | Figure | Language, Publishing & Graphic Arts |
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Synonyms: FigSynonyms: common fig (n), common fig tree (n), figure (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contempt | Interjection: a fig for; (unimportant); bah! never mind! away with! hang it! fiddlededee! |
Curvature | Adjective: curved; Verb: curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear; devex, devious; recurved, recurvous; crump; bowed; Verb: vaulted, hooked; falciform, falcated; semicircular, crescentic; sinusoid, parabolic, paraboloid; luniform, lunular; semilunar, conchoidal; helical, double helical, spiral; kinky; cordiform, cordated; cardioid; heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped; kidney-shaped, reniform; lentiform, lenticular; bow-legged; (distorted); oblique; circular. |
Indifference | Verb: be indifferent; Adjective: stand neuter; take no interest in; (insensibility); have no desire for;have no taste for, have no relish for; not care for; care nothing for, care nothing about; not care a straw about, not care a fig for, not care a whit about; (unimportance); not mind. |
Ornament | Garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank; trick out, fig out; deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array; begawd, dress, dress up; spangle, bespangle, powder; embroider, work; chase, emboss, fret, emblazon; illuminate; illustrate. |
Unimportance | Straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, brass farthing, doit, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen, red cent. |
Interjection: no matter! pish! tush! tut! pshaw! pugh! pooh,pooh-pooh! fudge! bosh! humbug! fiddlestick, fiddlestick end! fiddlededee! never mind! n'importe! what signifies it, what boots it, what of it, what of that, what matter, what's the odds, a fig for' stuff and nonsense, stuff! nonsense! | |
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Screenplays | Fig is a funny word (Moron Movies; writing credit: Griff Rhys Jones; Mel Smith) That's right, I'm gonna make you my famous walnut fig dough surprise (Animaniacs; writing credit: Nick Dubois; Peter Hastings) And wouldn't you rather be a left-handed flea, a crab on a slab at the bottom of the sea, a newt on the root of a banyan tree, a fig on twig in Galilee, than a man who never learns how to be free (Pippin: His Life and Times; writing credit: Roger O. Hirson) | |
Clever | 1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Fig Leaf for Eve (1944) Fig Leaves (1926) The Fig Rig (2002) | |
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 | (1) color slide shows one fig cookie. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | Plane table alidade Plate IV, Fig. No. 10, Appendix No. 8, Report of Superintendent ... 1894, p. 276. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Magnetometer and altazimuth instrument Plate III, Fig. No. 9, Appendix No. 8, Report of Superintendent ... 1894, p. 276. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Figs.1 and 2, Agaricia agaricites Milne-Edw. and Haime. Fig. 3, cirrhiped covered with coral. Figs. 4-6, Porites clavaria Lamarck. Fig. 7, Porites furcata Lamarck. Figures 9-12, Astrangia solitaria Verrill. Figs. 13-15, Colangia immersa Pourtales. In: "Report on the Florida Reefs", 1880, by Louis Agassiz. Mem. of Museum of Comp. Zoo. at Harvard, Vol. VII, No. 1. Plate XII. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Two meteorological balloons ready to launch from the PRINCESS ALICE. In: "From the Surface to the Bottom of the Sea" by H. Bouree, 1912, Fig. 25, p. 32. Library Call Number 525.8 B77. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | The instrument package being launched by the balloon is shown above the sailors. In: "From the Surface to the Bottom of the Sea" by H. Bouree, 1912, Fig. 26, p. 33. Library Call Number 525.8 B77. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Dr. Richard acquiring specimens from a small plankton-sampling net. In: "From the Surface to the Bottom of the Sea" by H. Bouree, 1912, Fig.110. P. 127. Library Call Number 525.8 B77. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | The laboratory on the Princess Alice with Dr. Richard, Dr. Portier, and Monsieur Tinayre. In: "From the Surface to the Bottom of the Sea" by H. Bouree, 1912, Fig. 113. P. 129. Library Call Number 525.8 B77. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | The L'HIRONDELLE, the first ship used by the Prince Albert, at anchor. In: "From the Surface to the Bottom of the Sea" by H. Bouree, 1912, Fig. 116. P. 134. Library Call Number 525.8 B77. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 1. A drilled roller (round boulder) used as a sounding weight. Figure 2 . Ordinary sounding lead weight, sometimes attaining many kilograms. The lead dates from the Christian era. The trapezoidal form with a recess for tallow and acquiring bottom samples dates from a few centuries back. In this form, millio ns of sounding were made. Fig. 3. French sounding lead used in many expeditions. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Fig wood" by Philip Jackson Commentary: "Some shopped up fig branches. Texture anyone?." | "Fig 02" by A. Carlos Herrera Commentary: "Fig leaves." |
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Menander | I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I will bet anything you please, a million against a fig, that they will all be fugitives from justice and discharged convicts |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Cranly had taken another dried fig from the supply in his pocket and was eating it slowly and noisily |
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Health | Some groups of patients are transplanted less frequently than others (see Fig.3), in part, because of immunologic incompatibility. (references) | |
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| "Fig" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.51% of the time. "Fig" is used about 1,644 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.51% | 1,636 | 5,087 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.24% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.24% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,644 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "fig". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Almon-diblathaim | N/A | Biblical | Hidden in a cluster of fig trees |
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Expressions using "fig": a fig for ..! ♦ a fig for' stuff and nonsense ♦ blue fig ♦ botany Bay fig ♦ care a fig ♦ Cochineal fig ♦ common fig ♦ common fig tree ♦ devil's fig ♦ East Indian fig tree ♦ Fig dust ♦ Fig faun ♦ Fig Garden Villa ♦ Fig gnat ♦ fig leaf ♦ fig marigold ♦ fig moth ♦ fig out ♦ fig tree ♦ fig up ♦ Fig wart ♦ fig wax ♦ Florida strangler fig ♦ Goat fig ♦ golden fig ♦ hottentot fig ♦ Hottentot's fig ♦ i don't care a fig ♦ in full fig ♦ in good fig ♦ indian fig ♦ mistletoe fig ♦ mulberry fig ♦ not worth a fig ♦ port Jackson fig ♦ ripe fig ♦ sacred fig ♦ sour fig ♦ strangler fig ♦ sycamore fig ♦ under one's vine and fig tree ♦ wild fig. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fig": fig-bird, fig-branches, fig-eaters, fig-flavoured, fig-fruit, fig-jig, fig-leaf, fig-leaves, fig-shaped, Fig-shell, fig-tree, fig-trees, fig-wasp, fig-wasps, fig-wort. | |
Ending with "fig": oak-fig. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
fig | 480 | dried fig | 17 |
fig tree | 387 | bay fig tree | 17 |
fig recipe | 90 | fig restaurant | 15 |
agriculture fig | 76 | growing fig tree | 15 |
fig leaf | 56 | fig fruit | 15 |
fig preserves | 54 | fig wrestling | 15 |
agriculture dried fig | 46 | fig strangler | 14 |
fig newtons | 37 | dried fig importer | 13 |
company fig list | 29 | credit federal fig union | 13 |
company dried fig list | 29 | fig seller | 13 |
care fig tree | 28 | celeste fig | 13 |
fig fresh | 27 | growing fig | 12 |
weeping fig | 26 | fig jam | 12 |
fig newton | 24 | brown fig turkey | 12 |
fig preserves recipe | 23 | fig pruning tree | 12 |
creeping fig | 22 | fig newton recipe | 11 |
fig importer | 22 | fig preserve recipe | 10 |
the girl and the fig | 19 | fig grow tree | 9 |
fig tree picture | 19 | fig plant | 9 |
fig fresh recipe | 17 | fig turkish | 9 |
fiddle fig leaf | 9 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "fig"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fik (destroy, douse, extinguish, fig tree, out, ruin, slake, switch off, turn off, ungear, wipe out). (various references) | |
Arabic | تين, شجرة التين (fig tree). (various references) | |
Bavarian | feing. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | състояние (capital, case, condition, fettle, fortune, means, pile, plight, position, posture, repair, shape, state, substance, train, way), смокиня, облекло (apparel, array, attire, clothes, clothing, dress, dressing, garb, garments, investment, livery, rig, rigging, tog, trim, turnout, vest, vesture, wear), премяна (accoutrements, apparel, attire, best bib and tucker, dress, finery, get up, glad rags, livery, one's best tucker, tire). (various references) | |
Catalan | figa. (various references) | |
Chinese | 無花果 . (various references) | |
Cornish | fygesen. (various references) | |
Czech | fík. (various references) | |
Danish | figen. (various references) | |
Dutch | vijg (fig-tree), výg (dung, excrement, fig-tree). (various references) | |
Esperanto | figo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | fika. (various references) | |
Finnish | viikuna. (various references) | |
French | figue. (various references) | |
Frisian | fiich. (various references) | |
German | feige (afraid, coward, cowardly, craven, cravenly, fainthearted, funky, gutless, lily livered, pusillanimous, spineless, spinelessly, unmanly, yellow). (various references) | |
Greek | σύκη, σύκα, σύκο (poor cod). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | fik. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תאנה (fig tree), אצבע משולשת (fico). (various references) | |
Hungarian | füge. (various references) | |
Indonesian | ara (tropical fig tree), amplas (fig tree, sandpaper). (various references) | |
Irish | fige. (various references) | |
Italian | fico (fig-tree). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 無花果 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いちじく. (various references) | |
Korean | 무화과. (various references) | |
Manx | fig. (various references) | |
Maori | piki. (various references) | |
Norwegian | fiken. (various references) | |
Papago | suhna. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | igfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | figo. (various references) | |
Romanian | formã (appearance, block, cast, condition, configuration, conformation, conventionality, cut, external, fashion, figuration, figure, form, format, guise, likeness, make, Mold, mould, pattypan, semblance, shape, size, structure), stare de spirit (pulse, state of mind, temper, tune), smochinã, smochin (fig tree), haine (accoutrement, apparel, clothes, clothing, creature comforts, dress, habiliment, raiment, rigging, suit, wear), echipament (accoutrement, accoutrements, appointment, equipage, equipment, furnishings, furniture, harness, kit, outfit, stock in trade, tool), împodobi (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, caparison, deck, deck out, decorate, drape, dress, embellish, encrust, feather, fig out, fringe, garnish, gild, grace, hang with, ornament, pink, prank, robe, set, smarten up, trap, trim), îmbrãcãminte (accoutrement, attire, carpet, clothes, clothing, dress, garb, garment, gear, plank, rig, toggery, toilet, wear). (various references) | |
Romany | cshamikà. (various references) | |
Russian | фига. (various references) | |
Scottish | fige , figis (a fig). (various references) | |
Sepedi | feie. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | smokva, pesnica (fist, mitt). (various references) | |
Shona | onde. (various references) | |
Sicilian | ficu. (various references) | |
Spanish | higo. (various references) | |
Sranan | figa. (various references) | |
Swazi | lí-khîwa. (various references) | |
Swedish | fikon (figs), fikonträd (fig tree, fig-tree). (various references) | |
Thai | การแต่งตัว. (various references) | |
Turkish | incir, giyim kuşam, üst baş (apparel, dress). (various references) | |
Turkmen | injir. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | інжир, смоківниця, фіга. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | y phục (clothing), trang bị tình trạng sức khoẻ, quần áo (attire, clothing, costume, habiliment, issue, period, vestiture), một tí (hairbreadth, hair's breadth, inch, rag, trifle). (various references) | |
Welsh | ffigysen. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ficariis, fici, ficis, ficorum, ficu, ficum, ficus. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | fic. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 21, Verse 29 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eipen parabolhn autoiV idete thn sukhn kai panta ta dendra |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et dixit illis similitudinem videte ficulneam et omnes arbores |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þa sæde he him sum bigspel. behealdað þæne ficbeam and ealle trywu |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he seide to hem a liknesse, Se ye the fige tre, and alle trees, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he shewed the a similitude: beholde ye fygge tree and all other trees |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he spoke to them a parable; Behold the fig-tree, and all the trees; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he made a story for them: See the fig-tree, and all the trees; |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 21, Verse 29 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ug kanila gisulti niya ang usa ka sambingay, nga nag-ingon: "Tan-awa ninyo ang kahoyng igira, ug ang tanang mga kahoy. |
| Croatian | I reèe im prispodobu: "Pogledajte smokvu i sva stabla. |
| Danish | Og han sagde dem en Lignelse: "Ser Figentræet og alle Træerne; |
| Dutch | En Hij zeide tot hen een gelijkenis: Ziet den vijgeboom, en al de bomen. |
| Finnish | Ja hän puhui heille vertauksen: "Katsokaa viikunapuuta ja kaikkia puita. |
| French | Et il leur dit une comparaison: Voyez le figuier, et tous les arbres. |
| German | Und er sagte ihnen ein Gleichnis: Sehet an den Feigenbaum und alle Bäume: |
| Hungarian | Monda pedig nékik egy példázatot: Tekintsétek meg a fügefát és minden fákat: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu Yesus menceritakan kepada mereka perumpamaan berikut ini, kata-Nya, "Perhatikanlah pohon ara dan semua pohon yang lain. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka dikatakan-Nya kepada mereka itu suatu perumpamaan, "Tengoklah pohon ara dan segala pohon lain! |
| Italian | E disse loro una parabola: «Guardate il fico e tutte le piante; |
| Maori | ¶ Na ka korerotia e ia tetahi kupu whakarite ki a ratou; Titiro ki te piki, ki nga rakau katoa; |
| Norwegian | Og han sa en lignelse til dem: Se på fikentreet og alle trær: |
| Portuguese | Propôs-lhes então uma parábola: Olhai para a figueira, e para todas as árvores; |
| Rumanian | Wi le -a spus o pildq: ,,Vedeyi smochinul wi toyi copacii. |
| Shuar | ¶ Tura ju chichamnasha nekapmamiayi. `Ikiu numi tura Nánkamas numisha Enentáimsatarum. |
| Spanish | Y les dijo una parábola: --Mirad la higuera y todos los árboles. |
| Swahili | Kisha akawaambia mfano: "Angalieni mtini na miti mingine yote. |
| Swedish | Och han framställde för dem en liknelse: "Sen på fikonträdet och på alla andra träd. |
| Uma | ¶ Yesus mpololitai ana'guru-na hante lolita rapa' tohe'i, na'uli': "Petonoi-koi kaju ara pai' kaju-kaju ntani' -na wo'o. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fig": figeater, figeaters, figged, figging, fight, fighter, fighters, fighting, fightings, fights, figment, figments, figs, figuline, figulines, figural, figurant, figurants, figurate, figuration, figurations, figurative, figuratively, figurativeness, figurativenesses, figure, figured, figurehead, figureheads, figurer, figurers, figures, figurine, figurines, figuring, figwort, figworts. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "fig": caprifig. (additional references) | |
Words containing "fig": bullfight, bullfighter, bullfighters, bullfighting, bullfightings, bullfights, caprifigs, catfight, catfights, cockfight, cockfighting, cockfightings, cockfights, configuration, configurational, configurationally, configurations, configurative, configure, configured, configures, configuring, disfigure, disfigured, disfigurement, disfigurements, disfigures, disfiguring, dogfight, dogfighting, dogfights, effigial, effigies, effigy, firefight, firefighter, firefighters, firefighting, firefightings, firefights, fistfight, fistfights, gunfight, gunfighter, gunfighters, gunfighting, gunfights, infight, infighter, infighters, infighting. (additional references) | |
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"Fig" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eig, fagr, fagy, famg, faug, fawg, feeg, feg, fegt, Fehg, Feige, feigh, feigi, Feigl, feigm, feigr, feigt, felg, Fepg, Ffi, fg, fgg, fgid, fhg, fia, fic, Fiegl, fif, figa, fige, Figi, figo, figr, figt, figu, figy, Fih, fii, fij, filg, filgy, fim, fimgt, fing, f'ing, fio, fip, fiq, fiu, fiv, fiw, fiy, flig, fng, fogx, foig, fpg, fuag, fugo, fugr, fuige, fuigi, Furgg, ig, oig, pfig, qfi, veig, vig. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fig" (pronounced fi"g) |
| 2 | -i" g | big, Brig, dig, gig, jig, Mig, pig, prig, renege, rig, swig, trig, twig, Vig, whig, wig, zig. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-i" | |
-1 letter: if. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-i" | |
+1 letter: figs, frig, gift. | |
+2 letters: fagin, feign, fidge, fight, fling, fogie, frigs, fugio, fungi, gifts, gliff, gonif, grief, griff, grift. | |
+3 letters: effigy, facing, fading, fagins, faking, faming, faring, fating, faxing, faying, fazing, feeing, feigns, feting, feuing, fidged, fidges, fidget, fifing, figged, fights, figure, filing, finger, fining, firing, fixing, fizgig, flight, flings, flying, fogies, foxing, fridge, fright, frigid, fringe, fringy, frying, fugios, fulgid, fuming, fungic, fusing, fuzing, gasify, gifted, gliffs, goniff, gonifs, griefs, griffe, griffs, grifts, ignify, ingulf, offing, uglify, wifing, zaftig, zoftig. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Derived from 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Bible Trace 19. Abbreviations 20. Acronyms | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Bibliography |
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