feni

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English

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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feni (usually uncountable, plural fenis)

  1. (India) An alcoholic drink made in Goa, India, from fermented cashew apples or coconut toddy (sap).
    • 2003, Paul Harding, Goa, page 71:
      A shot of Indian-made spirits is about Rs 40 to 60 (mixers cost extra) and a shot of feni is Rs 20. [] Goans are keen to offer advice to foreigners; don't drink it on an empty stomach, don't mix it with other spirits, and certainly don't swim after a couple of fenis.
    • 2006, Frank Simoes, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Feni but Were Too Drunk to Ask”, in Jerry Pinto, editor, Reflected in Water: Writings on Goa, page 243:
      The Department of Agriculture's official definition of feni is many soulless removes from its ebullient metaphysics; ‘Feni (the more accurate rendering, as opposed to the Portuguese 'fenim') has achieved the status of a generic term applying to a wide variety of distilled alcoholic liquors derived from extracts of the coconut palm and the cashew fruit.'
    • 2009, Bhaichand Patel, Happy Hours: The Penguin Book of Cocktails, unnumbered page:
      Feni is really country liquor that has risen from its lowly status. [] Whatever claims the Goans may lay to its potency, feni is no stronger than whisky or vodka.

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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fen (to sharpen) +‎ -i (personal suffix)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛni]
  • Hyphenation: fe‧ni
  • Rhymes: -ni

Verb

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feni

  1. third-person singular indicative present definite of fen

Italian

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Noun

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feni m

  1. plural of feno

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Latin

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Noun

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fēnī

  1. genitive singular of fēnum

Old French

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Verb

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feni

  1. past participle of fenir

Sranan Tongo

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Etymology

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From Dutch vinden.

Verb

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feni

  1. to find (to come across, possibly by searching)
  2. (copula) to consider, to judge

Swahili

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English fan.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

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feni (n class, plural feni)

  1. fan (device to cool)

West Makian

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Etymology

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Possibly from an older fani (if not an error), recorded in van der Crab's De Moluksche Eilanden's wordlist (as fanie). Compare Ternate paniki (bat) and also East Makian nhik.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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feni

  1. a bat
  2. a flying fox

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References

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  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics