Is the thumb a finger?

Question

Is the thumb considered a finger?

Answer 1

Think of it this way.
How many fingers do you have on each hand?
You would say 5 on each hand.
That would make 10 fingers on both hands.

Yes, one of the fingers is called a thumb.

The second finger next to the thumb is called index finger.
The last (fifth) small one is called a pinky.
Ok so much for the fingers.........

The ones on your feet are called toes....hehe.

Answer 2

The English word "finger" has two senses, even in the context of appendages of a single typical human hand:

Any of the five digits.
The four digits, not including the thumb.
Linguistically, it appears that the original sense was the broader of these two: penkwe-ros (also rendered as penqrós) was, in the inferred Proto-Indo-European language, a suffixed form of penkwe (or penqe), which has given rise to many Indo-European-family words (tens of them defined in English dictionaries) that involve or flow from concepts of fiveness.

The thumb shares the following with each of the (other) four fingers:

Having a skeleton of phalanges, joined by hinge-like joints that provide flexion toward the palm of the hand
Having a "back" surface that features hair and a nail, and a hairless palm-of-the-hand side with fingerprint ridges instead
The thumb contrasts with each of the (other) four by being the only finger that:

Is opposable
Has two phalanges rather than three
Has its inmost phalanx so close to the wrist
Has such absolute breadth, and such stubby proportions
Is attached to such a mobile metacarpus (which produces most of the opposability)

Answer 3

I call them fingers, but digit is a really cute name to call them.

Answer 4

I don't think so because it's sorter fatter and on the side, apart from the fingers

Answer 5

no