"figiel" meaning in Polish

See figiel in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈfi.ɡjɛl/
Rhymes: -iɡjɛl Etymology: Brückner (1927) states that this term is derived from Latin figūra via the dialectal form figuły. Alternatively, borrowed from Middle High German vigilje, from Medieval Latin vigiliae. If so, then a doublet of wigilia (“eve”) and Wigilia (“Christmas Eve”). Etymology templates: {{bor|pl|la|figūra}} Latin figūra, {{bor+|pl|gmh|vigilje|nocap=1}} borrowed from Middle High German vigilje, {{der|pl|ML.|vigiliae}} Medieval Latin vigiliae, {{dbt|pl|wigilia|Wigilia|nocap=1|t1=eve|t2=Christmas Eve}} doublet of wigilia (“eve”) and Wigilia (“Christmas Eve”) Head templates: {{pl-noun|m-in|dim=figielek|dim2=figlik}} figiel m inan (diminutive figielek or figlik) Inflection templates: {{pl-decl-noun-m-in|fig|l|a|figiel|figlów|accs=figiel/figla}} Forms: figielek [diminutive], figlik [diminutive], no-table-tags [table-tags], figiel [nominative, singular], figle [nominative, plural], figla [genitive, singular], figli [genitive, plural], figlów [genitive, plural], figlowi [dative, singular], figlom [dative, plural], figiel [accusative, singular], figla [accusative, singular], figle [accusative, plural], figlem [instrumental, singular], figlami [instrumental, plural], figlu [locative, singular], figlach [locative, plural], figlu [singular, vocative], figle [plural, vocative]
  1. trick, prank, joke, fooling around Tags: inanimate, masculine Synonyms: dowcip, igraszka, psikus, żart, krotochwila, psota
    Sense id: en-figiel-pl-noun-6t-KqeQT Categories (other): Polish terms with collocations, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Polish entries with incorrect language header, Polish links with redundant alt parameters, Polish links with redundant wikilinks Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 84 16 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 71 29 Disambiguation of Polish entries with incorrect language header: 66 34 Disambiguation of Polish links with redundant alt parameters: 55 45 Disambiguation of Polish links with redundant wikilinks: 64 36
  2. amusing, clever, or facetious work of art Tags: inanimate, masculine Synonyms: scherzo
    Sense id: en-figiel-pl-noun-8tgZF1qr Categories (other): Polish links with manual fragments, Comedy Disambiguation of Polish links with manual fragments: 39 61 Disambiguation of Comedy: 27 73
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: figlarny, figlarnie, figlarka, figlarstwo, figlarz, figlas, figlasek, figlować, nafiglować, pofiglować Related terms: figlarność, figlarzyna

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "figlarny"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "figlarnie"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "figlarka"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "figlarstwo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "figlarz"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "figlas"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "figlasek"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "figlować"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "nafiglować"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "pofiglować"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cs",
            "2": "fígl",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Czech: fígl",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Czech: fígl"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sk",
            "2": "fígeľ",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Slovak: fígeľ",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Slovak: fígeľ"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "uk",
            "2": "фі́гель",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Ukrainian: фі́гель (fíhelʹ)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Ukrainian: фі́гель (fíhelʹ)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pl",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "figūra"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin figūra",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pl",
        "2": "gmh",
        "3": "vigilje",
        "nocap": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "borrowed from Middle High German vigilje",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pl",
        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "vigiliae"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin vigiliae",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pl",
        "2": "wigilia",
        "3": "Wigilia",
        "nocap": "1",
        "t1": "eve",
        "t2": "Christmas Eve"
      },
      "expansion": "doublet of wigilia (“eve”) and Wigilia (“Christmas Eve”)",
      "name": "dbt"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Brückner (1927) states that this term is derived from Latin figūra via the dialectal form figuły. Alternatively, borrowed from Middle High German vigilje, from Medieval Latin vigiliae. If so, then a doublet of wigilia (“eve”) and Wigilia (“Christmas Eve”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "figielek",
      "tags": [
        "diminutive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figlik",
      "tags": [
        "diminutive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pl-decl-noun-m-in",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figiel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figle",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figla",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figli",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figlów",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figlowi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figlom",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figiel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figla",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figle",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figlem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figlami",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figlu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figlach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figlu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figle",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m-in",
        "dim": "figielek",
        "dim2": "figlik"
      },
      "expansion": "figiel m inan (diminutive figielek or figlik)",
      "name": "pl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "fi‧giel"
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fig",
        "2": "l",
        "3": "a",
        "4": "figiel",
        "5": "figlów",
        "accs": "figiel/figla"
      },
      "name": "pl-decl-noun-m-in"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Polish",
  "lang_code": "pl",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "figlarność"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "figlarzyna"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Polish terms with collocations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "84 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "71 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "66 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Polish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "55 45",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Polish links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "64 36",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              8,
              14
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              15,
              20
            ]
          ],
          "english": "to play tricks",
          "text": "płatać/spłatać figle",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "trick, prank, joke, fooling around"
      ],
      "id": "en-figiel-pl-noun-6t-KqeQT",
      "links": [
        [
          "trick",
          "trick"
        ],
        [
          "prank",
          "prank"
        ],
        [
          "joke",
          "joke"
        ],
        [
          "fooling around",
          "fooling around"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dowcip"
        },
        {
          "word": "igraszka"
        },
        {
          "word": "psikus"
        },
        {
          "word": "żart"
        },
        {
          "word": "krotochwila"
        },
        {
          "word": "psota"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "inanimate",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "39 61",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Polish links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "27 73",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "pl",
          "name": "Comedy",
          "orig": "pl:Comedy",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "amusing, clever, or facetious work of art"
      ],
      "id": "en-figiel-pl-noun-8tgZF1qr",
      "links": [
        [
          "amusing",
          "amusing"
        ],
        [
          "clever",
          "clever"
        ],
        [
          "facetious",
          "facetious"
        ],
        [
          "art",
          "art"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "scherzo"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "inanimate",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfi.ɡjɛl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iɡjɛl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "figiel"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Polish 2-syllable words",
    "Polish doublets",
    "Polish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Polish inanimate nouns",
    "Polish lemmas",
    "Polish links with manual fragments",
    "Polish links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Polish masculine nouns",
    "Polish nouns",
    "Polish terms borrowed from Latin",
    "Polish terms borrowed from Middle High German",
    "Polish terms derived from Latin",
    "Polish terms derived from Medieval Latin",
    "Polish terms derived from Middle High German",
    "Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Polish terms with audio pronunciation",
    "Rhymes:Polish/iɡjɛl",
    "Rhymes:Polish/iɡjɛl/2 syllables",
    "pl:Comedy"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "figlarny"
    },
    {
      "word": "figlarnie"
    },
    {
      "word": "figlarka"
    },
    {
      "word": "figlarstwo"
    },
    {
      "word": "figlarz"
    },
    {
      "word": "figlas"
    },
    {
      "word": "figlasek"
    },
    {
      "word": "figlować"
    },
    {
      "word": "nafiglować"
    },
    {
      "word": "pofiglować"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cs",
            "2": "fígl",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Czech: fígl",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Czech: fígl"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sk",
            "2": "fígeľ",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Slovak: fígeľ",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Slovak: fígeľ"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "uk",
            "2": "фі́гель",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Ukrainian: фі́гель (fíhelʹ)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Ukrainian: фі́гель (fíhelʹ)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pl",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "figūra"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin figūra",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pl",
        "2": "gmh",
        "3": "vigilje",
        "nocap": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "borrowed from Middle High German vigilje",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pl",
        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "vigiliae"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin vigiliae",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pl",
        "2": "wigilia",
        "3": "Wigilia",
        "nocap": "1",
        "t1": "eve",
        "t2": "Christmas Eve"
      },
      "expansion": "doublet of wigilia (“eve”) and Wigilia (“Christmas Eve”)",
      "name": "dbt"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Brückner (1927) states that this term is derived from Latin figūra via the dialectal form figuły. Alternatively, borrowed from Middle High German vigilje, from Medieval Latin vigiliae. If so, then a doublet of wigilia (“eve”) and Wigilia (“Christmas Eve”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "figielek",
      "tags": [
        "diminutive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figlik",
      "tags": [
        "diminutive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pl-decl-noun-m-in",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figiel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figle",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figla",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figli",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figlów",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figlowi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figlom",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figiel",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figla",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figle",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figlem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figlami",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figlu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figlach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figlu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figle",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m-in",
        "dim": "figielek",
        "dim2": "figlik"
      },
      "expansion": "figiel m inan (diminutive figielek or figlik)",
      "name": "pl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "fi‧giel"
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fig",
        "2": "l",
        "3": "a",
        "4": "figiel",
        "5": "figlów",
        "accs": "figiel/figla"
      },
      "name": "pl-decl-noun-m-in"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Polish",
  "lang_code": "pl",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "figlarność"
    },
    {
      "word": "figlarzyna"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Polish terms with collocations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              8,
              14
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              15,
              20
            ]
          ],
          "english": "to play tricks",
          "text": "płatać/spłatać figle",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "trick, prank, joke, fooling around"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "trick",
          "trick"
        ],
        [
          "prank",
          "prank"
        ],
        [
          "joke",
          "joke"
        ],
        [
          "fooling around",
          "fooling around"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dowcip"
        },
        {
          "word": "igraszka"
        },
        {
          "word": "psikus"
        },
        {
          "word": "żart"
        },
        {
          "word": "krotochwila"
        },
        {
          "word": "psota"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "inanimate",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "amusing, clever, or facetious work of art"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "amusing",
          "amusing"
        ],
        [
          "clever",
          "clever"
        ],
        [
          "facetious",
          "facetious"
        ],
        [
          "art",
          "art"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "scherzo"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "inanimate",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfi.ɡjɛl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iɡjɛl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "figiel"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Polish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (5ee713e and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.