The dulya 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

Finger (gesture)

In Western culture, the finger , also known as the middle finger, is an obscene hand gesture, often meaning the phrases "fuck off" , "fuck you" or "up yours"...

 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

Padonkaffsky jargon

Padonkaffsky jargon or Olbanian language is a cant language developed by padonki of Runet. It started as an Internet slang language originally used in the Russian Internet community...

 to refer to Control-Alt-Delete

Control-Alt-Delete

Control-Alt-Delete is a computer keyboard command on IBM PC compatible systems that can be used to reboot the computer, and summon the task manager or Windows Security in more recent versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system...

. Svitlana Pyrkalo, a producer at the BBC World

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 Ukrainian Service

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, explained that "you need three fingers to press the buttons. So it's like telling somebody (a computer in this case) to get lost."

International nomenclature

• In Italy
  Italy
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  , 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
  Dante Alighieri
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  's Divine Comedy (Inferno, Canto XXV).