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Noun
[edit]feni (usually uncountable, plural fenis)
- (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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[edit]Hungarian
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[edit]fen (“to sharpen”) -i (personal suffix)
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Italian
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[edit]feni m
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[edit]fēnī
Old French
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[edit]feni
- past participle of fenir
Sranan Tongo
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Swahili
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[edit]feni (n class, plural feni)
- fan (device to cool)
West Makian
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[edit]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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[edit]feni
- a bat
- a flying fox
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[edit]References
[edit]- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics
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