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fucularu

fucularu

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Sicilian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *focolarium. Compare Italian focolaio and focolare.

Noun

fucularu m (plural fuculari or fuculara)

hearth, fireplace
Synonyms: conca, tannura

cunti di la nanna a lu fucularu ― tales, stories (literally, “grandma's stories at the fireplace”)
a grouping, a gathering of some people, usually approached in the connotation of them being gossipy
Synonym: curtigghiari

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

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