Dulya

The dulya (Дуля) or fig sign.

The dulya (Turkish: Nah, Belarusian: дуля, Ukrainian: дуля, Russian: кукиш, шиш, дуля, фига, фиг, Serbian: šipak (шипак), Polish: figa, Czech: fík, Slovene: fig, Slovak: figa), or the fig sign, is a rude gesture used in Turkish culture and Slavic culture and some other cultures that uses two fingers and a thumb, but not equal to the finger in Anglo-American culture. Real meaning of this gesture is refusal of aiding or disagreement with the target of gesture. Usually it is connected with requests for financial loan or help with performing some physical work.

Recently, it has also become a common term in Padonkaffsky jargon to refer to Control-Alt-Delete. Svitlana Pyrkalo, a producer at the BBC World Ukrainian Service, explained that "you need three fingers to press the buttons. So it's like telling somebody (a computer in this case) to get lost."^[1]

International nomenclature

• In Italy, this sign (known as "fica", or "cunt gesture", for the resemblance to female genitalia) was a common and very rude gesture in past centuries, not dissimilar to the finger, but has long since fallen out of use. Notably, a remnant of its usage is found in Dante's Divine Comedy (Inferno, Canto XXV).

References

1. ^ Kleinman, Zoe (16 August 2010). "How the internet is changing language". BBC News. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10971949. Retrieved 16 August 2010.