filìnija

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• fulìnija (u- coloured variant)
• filinia, fulinia (eye dialect)

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)

1. soot, lampblack

   Synonym: mprogghiu

2. (by extension, mainly plural) spiderweb

   Synonym: ragnatila

3. (by extension, mainly plural, slang, figuratively) Unfulfilled (maily female) sexual desire.

   Ḍḍa sutta fici i filìniji.

   My vagina is almost getting blue vulva.

See also

• frìjiri
• lurdu
• lurdìa
• ngrasciu
• pruvulazzu
• ragnatila
• ragnu
• vampa-susciu
• vampasusciu