finger

CEFRA2

/ˈfɪŋɡəː/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    One of the five parts at the end of a hand.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly

Examples

  • Cool the burned finger in running water.

  • She cut her finger on a piece of glass.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [ˈfeɪ̯ŋɡɚ] ~ [ˈfeɪ̯ŋɡɹ̩]
  • [ˈfiŋɡɚ] ~ [ˈfiŋɡɹ̩]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.

  2. Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals

  3. The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.

More examples

In context

  • You want to have a finger in every pie, don't you?

  • Humans have two hands and ten fingers. Each hand has one thumb and four fingers.

  • a finger of land; a finger of smoke

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English fynger, finger, from Old English finger (“finger”), from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (“finger”), from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós, from *pénkʷe (“five”). Cognate with West Frisian finger, German and Low German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish finger, Faroese and Icelandic fingur; see also Old Armenian հինգեր-որդ (hinger-ord, “fifth”). More at five.