figurine

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French figurine.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɪɡ(j)əˈɹin/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɪɡəˈɹin/

Noun

figurine (plural figurines)

1. A small carved or molded figure; a statuette.

Translations

a small carved or molded figure

• Bulgarian: статуетка f (statuetka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小塑像 (zh) (xiǎo sùxiàng), 人形 (zh) (rénxíng)

• Finnish: figuriini
• French: figurine (fr) f, statuette (fr) f
• German: Figürchen (de)
• Greek: αγαλματίδιο (el) n (agalmatídio)

  Ancient: ἀγαλμάτιον n (agalmátion)

• Hungarian: szobrocska (hu), nipp (hu)
• Italian: statuetta f
• Japanese: フィギュア (figyua)
• Latin: sigillum n
• Middle English: popet
• Ojibwe: mazinichigan
• Polish: statuetka (pl) f
• Portuguese: estatueta (pt) f
• Romanian: statuetă (ro) f, figurină (ro) f
• Russian: статуэ́тка (ru) f (statuétka), фигу́рка (ru) f (figúrka)
• Spanish: figura (es)
• Vietnamese: bức tượng nhỏ

Further reading

• figurine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From figure +‎ -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.ɡy.ʁin/

• Audio:

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Noun

figurine f (plural figurines)

1. figurine
2. (games) miniature

Further reading

• “figurine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

figurine f

1. plural of figurina

Romanian

Noun

figurine f pl

1. plural of figurină