fk

See also: FK, fK, .fk, f--k, and f**k

English

Interjection

fk

Censored spelling of fuck.

Noun

fk (plural fks)

Censored spelling of fuck.

Verb

fk (third-person singular simple present fks, present participle fking or fkn or fg, simple past and past participle fked or fd)

(transitive, intransitive) Censored spelling of fuck.

Anagrams

KF

Egyptian

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /fɛk/
- Conventional anglicization: fek

Verb

2-lit.

(intransitive) to be(come) desolate

Inflection

Conjugation of fk (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: fk, geminated stem: fkk

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
fk	fkw, fk	fkt	fk, j.fk	fk, j.fk

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
fk	ḥr fk	m fk	r fk

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
aspect / mood	active	aspect / mood	active
perfect	fk.n	consecutive	fk.jn
terminative	fkt	consecutive	fk.jn
perfective³	fk	obligative¹	fk.ḫr
imperfective	fk, j.fk¹	obligative¹	fk.ḫr
prospective³	fk	potentialis¹	fk.kꜣ
subjunctive	fk, j.fk¹	potentialis¹	fk.kꜣ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	fk.n	—	—
perfective	fk	fk	fkk, fkkj⁶, fk², fkw^{2 5}, fky^{2 5}
imperfective	j.fk¹, fk, fky, fkw⁵	j.fk¹, j.fkw^{1 5}, fk, fkj⁶, fky⁶	fk, fkw⁵
prospective	fk, fktj⁷	fktj⁴, fkt⁴

¹ Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
² Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
³ Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective.
⁴ Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. ⁵ Only in the masculine singular.
⁶ Only in the masculine.
⁷ Only in the feminine.

Derived terms

sfkk

References

James P[eter] Allen (2010), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 158.

Tashelhit

Alternative forms

kf, ff, f
efk — Medieval Tashelhit

Etymology

Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit افك (efk), from Proto-Berber *ăβkəʔ.

Cognates include Central Atlas Tamazight ⵛⴼ (cf, “to give”), Tachawit uc (“to give”),Tarifit ewc (“to give”), Kabyle efk (“to give”), Northern Saharan Berber uš (“to give”), Ghadames ăkf (“to give”) intensive βăkk, and Tuareg ăkf (“to give”) intensive hăkk.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fk/

Verb

fk (intensive aorist akka, verbal noun tikki, Tifinagh spelling ⴼⴽ, Arabic spelling فك)

to give
ar yakka ṛbbi ibawn i ġwa lli ur iṭṭafn uxsan.
God gives beans to the one who has no teeth (said to someone who does not take advantage of the opportunity offered to him).

Derived terms

tikki (“gift, donation”)

References

Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 1 a—e (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/1) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 884a
Marijn van Putten (2019), “Introducción al estudio diacrónico del bereber”, in José Juan Batista Rodríguez, editor, Estudios sobre toponimia canaria prehispánica (in Spanish), Academia Canaria De La Lengua, →ISBN, pages 270, 272
Maarten Kossmann (1999), Essai sur la phonologie du proto-berbère (Grammatical analyses of african languages; 12) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: ‎Rüdiger Köppe, →ISBN, page 175