middle finger

English

Noun

middle finger (plural middle fingers)

The finger between the forefinger and the ring finger; this is the longest finger.
An obscene gesture directed towards another as an insult, made by sticking up the middle finger of a hand.
- 2018, Jason Silverstein, "Giving Middle Finger to Police Is a First Amendment Right, Man Argues in Lawsuit Over Ticket", Newsweek, February 4, 2018:
  An Indiana man argues in a federal lawsuit filed last week that he had a First Amendment right to give the middle finger to a state trooper, and that his free speech was violated when the gesture earned him a ticket.
(figuratively) An insult directed at someone.
- 2007, Dominique Paul, The Possibility of Fireflies‎, page 62:
  Her whole way of being is a big middle finger to the other guy.

Synonyms

digit III
fuck finger
tall man
third digit

Related terms

Translations

finger between the forefinger and the ring finger

Arabic: وُسْطَى‎ f (wusṭā)
Egyptian Arabic: وسطى‎ f (wuṣṭa)
Aramaic: ܡܨܥܝܬܐ‎ f (meṣʿaytāʾ)
Armenian: միջնամատ (miǰnamat)
Basque: hatz erdiko
Belarusian: сярэ́дні па́лец m (sjarédni páljec)
Breton: biz-bras (br) m, biz-kreiz (br) m
Bulgarian: сре́ден пръст m (sréden prǎst)
Catalan: dit del mig (ca) m
Central Melanau: tujok dagen
Chinese:
Cantonese: 中指 (zung¹ zi²)

Hakka: 棟指, 栋指 (tung-chṳ́), 中指 (chûng-chṳ́, chûng-chí)

Mandarin: 中指 (zh) (zhōngzhǐ), 三指 (zh) (sānzhǐ), 將指, 将指 (jiàngzhǐ), 玉柱 (zh) (yùzhù)

Min Nan: 中指 (zh-min-nan) (tiong-cháiⁿ, tiong-chúiⁿ, tiong-chái, tiong-chán), 中營, 中营 (tiong-iâⁿ), 中爪 (tiong-jiáu, tiong-niáu)
Coptic: ⲧⲏⲃ ⲛⲑⲙⲏϯ m (tēb nthmēti)
Czech: prostředník (cs) m, prostředníček (cs) m
Danish: langfinger c, langemand c
Dolgan: ортокуу чөмүйэ (ortokuu çömüye)
Dutch: middelvinger (nl) m
Esperanto: longa fingro, meza fingro, mezfingro (eo)
Estonian: keskmine sõrm
Faroese: longutong f
Finnish: keskisormi (fi), keskari (fi)
French: majeur (fr) m, doigt du milieu m, médius (fr) m, doigt III (fr) m, troisième doigt (fr) m
Galician: grandiño m
Georgian: შუათითი (šuatiti)
German: Mittelfinger (de) m
Greek: μέσος (el) m (mésos)
Ancient Greek: σφάκελος m (sphákelos)
Hebrew: אַמָּה‎ (he) f ('amá), צְרֵדָה‎ (he) f (tzredá) (talmudic)
Hungarian: középsőujj
Icelandic: langatöng (is) f
Ilocano: akintenga nga ramay
Indonesian: jari tengah (id), jari hantu (id), jari malang (id), jari mati (id), jari panjang (id)
Interlingua: digito medie
Italian: medio (it) m, dito medio m
Japanese: 中指 (ja) (なかゆび, nakayubi)
Kalmyk: дундк (dundk)
Kannada: ಎಡೆವೆರಲ್ (kn) (eḍeveral), ನಡುಬೆರಳು (kn) (naḍuberaḷu)
Khmer: ម្រាមដៃកណ្ដាល (mriəmdaykndaal), ចង្អុលដៃកណ្ដាល (cɑɑngʾoldaykndaal), ចង្អុលខ្មោច (cɑɑngʾolkhmaoc)
Korean: 중지 (ko) (jungji) (中指 (ko)), 가운뎃손가락 (ko) (gaundetson-garak)
Lao: ນິ້ວກາງ (lo) (niu kāng)
Latin: digitus medius m, digitus tertius m

Macedonian: среден прст m (sréden p'rst)
Malay: jari hantu, jari tengah, jari malang, jari mati, jari panjang
Maltese: saba’ tan-nofs m
Manchu: ᡩ᠋ᡠ᠋ᠯᡳᠮᠪᠠᡳ
ᠰᡳᠮᡥᡠᠨ (d᠋u᠋limbai simhun)
Maori: tōroa, māpere
Navajo: álánézhí
Ngazidja Comorian: shaya sha hari class 7/8
Norman: maître dé m (Jersey), mouss'cotin m (Guernsey)
Northern Sami: gaskasuorbma
Norwegian:
Bokmål: langfinger m

Nynorsk: langfinger m
Old English: middelfinger m
Ottoman Turkish: اورتا پرمق‎ (orta parmak)
Polish: palec środkowy (pl) m inan
Portuguese: dedo médio (pt) m
Romanian: deget mijlociu (ro) n
Russian: сре́дний па́лец (ru) m (srédnij pálec)
Scottish Gaelic: gunna fada m, fionna-fada m, mioragaidh-fad f, meur meadhain m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: средњак m, средњи прст m

Roman: srednjak (sh) m, srednji prst (sh) m
Sindhi: وِچِين‎
Skolt Sami: kõskksuõrmm
Slovak: prostredník
Slovene: sredinec (sl) m
Southern Kalinga: pagkawkawa
Spanish: dedo de en medio m, dedo del corazón m
Sundanese: jajangkung
Swedish: långfinger (sv) n
Tagalog: hinlalato
Tamil: நடுவிரல் (ta) (naṭuviral)
Telugu: నడివ్రేలు (naḍivrēlu)
Thai: นิ้วกลาง (th) (níu-glaang)
Tibetan: དཀྱིལ་མཛུབ (dkyil mdzub)
Turkish: orta parmak (tr)
Turkmen: orta barmak
Ukrainian: сере́дній па́лець m (serédnij pálecʹ)
Vietnamese: ngón giữa (vi), ngón tay giữa (vi)
West Frisian: middelste finger
Yakut: ортоку тарбах (ortoku tarbax)
Yup'ik: akulipeq, alqiliq, aquq
Zhuang: lwgfwngzgyang
Zulu: uphakathi (zu)

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