fucularu
Sicilian
Alternative forms
- cufularu, fucaloru
- focularu (Calabrian)
- fucalire, focalire (Salentino)
Etymology
Compare Italian focolare.
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Noun
fucularu m (plural fuculari)
- hearth, fireplace
- cunti di la nanna a lu fucularu ― tales, stories (literally, “grandma's stories at the fireplace”)
- meeting of people, usually in the connotation of them being gossipy (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
- fari fucularu ― to gossip (literally, “to do fireplace”)
- cosi di dìrisi a lu fucularu ― fibs, lies, rumours (literally, “things to say at the fireplace”)
- (blacksmithing) forge
- Synonyms: forgia, fucina
Descendants
- → Maltese: fuklar, foklar, foglar
References
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 931: “il focolare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Traina, Antonino (1868), “fucularu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 1739–1740
- Pasqualino (c. 1790), “fucularu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 2, page 168
- Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862), “fuculàru”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 402