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Sicilian
Etymology
Possibly conflated with the theme of filu (“thread”) (giving sense 2), through an intermediate *fuliniga, ultimately from the metathesis of Latin fūlīginem (“soot, lampblack”). Compare Italian fuliggine, Spanish hollín. Cfr., for the morphology, russànija, sartànija and vurrànija.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɪ.ˈli.nɪ.a/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /fɪ.ˈli.nja/ (synaeretic)
- Hyphenation: fi‧lì‧ni‧ja
Noun
filìnija f (plural filìniji)
- soot, lampblack
- Synonym: mprogghiu
- (by extension, mainly plural) spiderweb
- Synonym: ragnatila
- (by extension, mainly plural, slang, figuratively) Unfulfilled (maily female) sexual desire.
Ḍḍa sutta fici i filìniji.- My vagina is almost getting blue vulva.
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