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English

Etymology

From Middle English fynger, finger, from Old English finger (“finger”), from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (“finger”) (compare West Frisian finger, Low German/German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish finger), from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?rós, *penk?-ros (“fifth”) (compare Old Irish cóicer (“set of five people”), Old Armenian ??????-??? (hinger-ord, “fifth”)), from *pénk?e (“five”). More at five.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f????/
• (General American) enPR: f?ng?-g?r, IPA^(key): /?f????/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /?f????/
• Rhymes: -????(?)
• Hyphenation: fin?ger

Noun

finger (plural fingers)

1. (anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
   • 1916, The Finger Talk of Chicago's Wheat-Pit, Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 89, p. 81:

     Each finger extended represents one-eighth of a cent. Thus when all four fingers and the thumb are extended, all being spread out from one another, it means five-eighths.
2. (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:
   • 1915, Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, The How and Why Library, Life, Section VIII,

     The starfish eats with five fingers.

   1. The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
   2. One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
   3. One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
3. Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly:
   • 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, p. 250:

     ...spires whose ‘silent finger points to Heaven’...

   1. (cooking) Finger-shaped pieces of food.
      • 2014, Laurie David, The Family Cooks

        By now, we hope you have said “no” to processed nuggets and fingers. Instead, how about taking some real chicken, tossing it with real eggs, a little tangy mustard, and a crunchy quinoa coating?

   2. (chemistry) A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
      • 1996, Susan Trumbore, Mass Spectrometry of Soils, p. 318:

        An oven is placed over the finger with Co catalyst (oven temperature will depend on whether a quartz or Pyrex finger is used, see Ref. 24), and a cold finger (usually a copper rod immersed in dry ice–isopropanol slurry) is placed on the other tube.

   3. (Britain regional, botany, usually in in the plural, obsolete) Synonym of foxglove (D. purpurea).
4. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly:

   a finger of land; a finger of smoke

   1. (botany) Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
   2. (anatomy, obsolete) A lobe of the liver.
   3. (historical) The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
   4. The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
   5. (nautical) Clipping of finger pier: a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock.
   6. (aviation) Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
5. Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
   • 1611, Bible (KJV), Exodus 8:19:

     The Magicians said vnto Pharaoh; This is the finger of God.

   1. (obsolete) Synonym of hand, the part of a clock pointing to the hour, minute, or second.
   2. (US, obsolete slang) A policeman or prison guard.
   3. (US, rare slang) An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
   4. (US, rare slang) A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
   5. (figuratively) That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.

      The finger of suspicion pointed clearly at the hotel manager.

6. (units of measure) Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly
   1. (historical) Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of ¹?₁₆ foot (about 1.9 cm).
      • 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick

        a piece of steel three fingers thick

   2. (historical) A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).
   3. (historical) Synonym of digit: ¹?₁₂ the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
   4. (originally US) An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.

      Gimme three fingers of bourbon.

7. (fashion) A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
8. (informal, obsolete) Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
   • 1786, Thomas Busby, Musical Dictionary

     A performer capable of doing justice to rapid or expressive passages, is said to have a good finger

9. (informal, rare) Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
10. (Britain slang) A person.
11. (especially in the phrase 'give someone the finger') An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
12. (vulgar) The act of fingering, inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure.

Synonyms

• (anatomy): See Thesaurus:finger
• (zoology): toe (when on four legs); claw, talon (usually sharp)
• (finger-shaped objects): tendril (in plants)
• (airport walkway): See jet bridge
• (finger width): See digit
• (slang for police informer): See Thesaurus:informant
• (skill with the fingers): fingering technique; touch
• (British slang for person): bloke, lad, boy, guv

Hyponyms

• (anatomy): index finger, forefinger; middle finger; ring finger; little finger, pinkie; thumb, hallux

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: finga

Translations

See finger/translations § Noun.

Verb

finger (third-person singular simple present fingers, present participle fingering, simple past and past participle fingered)

1. (transitive) To identify or point out. Also put the finger on. To report to or identify for the authorities, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in.
2. (transitive) To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
3. (transitive) To use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus; to fingerbang
   • 2008, Thomas Wainwright (editor), Erotic Tales, page 56:

     She smiled, a look of amazement on her face, as if thinking that maybe this was the cock that she had been fantasizing about just now, as she fingered herself to a massive, body-engulfing orgasm.

4. (transitive, music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
5. (transitive, music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
6. (transitive, computing) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
   • 1996, "Yves Bellefeuille", List of useful freeware, comp.archives.msdos.d, Usenet:

     PGP mail welcome (finger me for my key).

7. (obsolete) To steal; to purloin.
8. (transitive, obsolete) To execute, as any delicate work.

Synonyms

• (to identify or point out): inform, grass up, snitch; See also Thesaurus:rat out
• (sexual): fingerbang, fingerfuck

Translations

See also

• artiodactyl
• dactyl
• dactylography
• dactylology
• fist
• macrodactyly
• perissodactyl
• prestidigitation
• pterodactyl

References

• "finger, n., in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• fringe

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?rós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fen??r/, [?fe???]

Noun

finger c (singular definite fingeren, plural indefinite fingre)

1. finger

Inflection

Further reading

• finger on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Etymology 2

See fingere (“to simulate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fen??e?r/, [?fe???e????], [?fe???e???]

Verb

finger or fingér

1. imperative of fingere

Middle English

Noun

finger

1. Alternative form of fynger

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?rós.

Noun

finger m (definite singular fingeren, indefinite plural fingre or fingrer, definite plural fingrene)

1. (anatomy) a finger

Derived terms

Related terms

• tommel

References

• “finger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?rós.

Noun

finger m (definite singular fingeren, indefinite plural fingrar, definite plural fingrane)

1. (anatomy) a finger

Derived terms

Related terms

• tommel

References

• “finger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fingraz, which is from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?rós, *penk?-ros, a suffixed form of *pénk?e (“five”). Compare Old Frisian finger, Old Saxon fingar, Old High German fingar, Old Norse fingr, Gothic ???????????????????????? (figgrs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fin.?er/, [?fi?.?er]

Noun

finger m

1. finger

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: fynger, finger, vinger, fyngir, fyngur, fyngyr, fiyngir, ffynger
  • English: finger
    • Sranan Tongo: finga
  • Scots: finger
  • Yola: vinger

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *penk?rós.

Noun

finger m

1. finger

Inflection

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: fanger

• West Frisian: finger

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fi???r/

Noun

finger m

1. finger

Declension

or (with neuter gender)

Descendants

• Swedish: finger

Spanish

Etymology

From English finger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fin?e?/, [?f??.?e?]
• Hyphenation: fin?ger

Noun

finger m (plural fingeres)

1. (food) finger
2. (aviation, travel) jet bridge

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish finger, from Old Norse fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?rós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f????r/

Noun

finger n or c

1. (anatomy) a finger (the body part)

Declension

Usage notes

The neuter declension is much more common than the common declension.

Derived terms

See also

• hand
• knoge
• nagel
• tumme

References

• finger in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian finger, from Proto-West Germanic *fingr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f???r/

Noun

finger c (plural fingers, diminutive fingerke)

1. finger

Further reading

• “finger”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

From Middle English organe, from Old French organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon, “an instrument, implement, tool, also an organ of sense or apprehension, an organ of the body, also a musical instrument, an organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer?-. Doublet of organon, organum, and orgue.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???.??n/
  • Homophone: Oregon (one pronunciation)
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)??n
• Hyphenation: or?gan

Noun

organ (plural organs)

1. A larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
2. (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
3. (music) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
4. An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
5. Short for organ pipe cactus.
6. government organization; agency; authority
7. (slang) The penis.

Hyponyms

See also Thesaurus:organ.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Korean: ??? (oreugan)
• ? Maori: ?kana
• ? Vietnamese: oóc-gan

Translations

Further reading

• organ in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• organ in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Verb

organ (third-person singular simple present organs, present participle organing, simple past and past participle organed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
   • 1681, Thomas Manningham, Two Discourses

     Thou art elemented and organ'd for other apprehensions.

Anagrams

• Angor, Garon, Goran, Grano, Ongar, Ragon, Rogan, Ronga, angor, argon, groan, nagor, orang, rag on, rango

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch orgaan, from Middle Dutch organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??r?an]
• Hyphenation: or?gan

Noun

organ

1. organ:
   1. (biology) a larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
   2. (music) a musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
   3. an official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
2. mouthpiece, a spokesperson or medium aligned with an organisation.

Related terms

Further reading

• “organ” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Noun

organ

1. Alternative form of organe

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin organum, a borrowing from Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon),

Noun

organ n (definite singular organet, indefinite plural organ or organer, definite plural organa or organene)

1. (anatomy, biology) an organ
2. an organ (publication which represents an organisation)
3. a body (e.g. an advisory body)

Derived terms

• kjønnsorgan

See also

• orgel (musical instrument)

References

• “organ” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon), via Latin organum

Noun

organ n (definite singular organet, indefinite plural organ, definite plural organa)

1. (anatomy, biology) an organ
2. an organ (publication which represents an organisation)
3. a body (e.g. an advisory body)

Derived terms

• kjønnsorgan

See also

• orgel (musical instrument)

References

• “organ” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r.?an/

Noun

organ m inan

1. organ, part of an organism
2. (by extension) unit of government dedicated to a specific function
3. (politics) organ, official publication of a political organization

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek ??????? (órganos), from Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon), partly through the intermediate of Slavic *or?gan?. Some senses also based on French orgue (cf. org?), Italian organum, Italian organo.

Noun

organ n (plural organe)

1. organ (part of organism)
2. (archaic) organ (musical instrument)

Declension

Synonyms

• (musical instrument): org?

See also

• m?dular

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?a?n/
• Hyphenation: or?gan

Noun

òrg?n m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. organ (part of an organism)

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

organ n

1. (anatomy) an organ (a part of the body)
2. (dated) a voice (of a singer or actor)

   Hon förenade med ett utmärkt teateryttre en hög grad af intelligens, en ypperlig organ och en förträfflig deklamationskonst

   She combined with excellent theatrical looks a high degree of intelligence, an extraordinary voice and a splendid mastery of declamation

3. an organ; a newspaper (of an organization, i.e. its voice)

Declension

Related terms

Anagrams

• argon