Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2019/March

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This is the March archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2019.

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Foreign word of the day  in Yapese
gadaed pronoun
  1. we, us (inclusive: both you and me)
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Today is Yap Day.

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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
Mare Nostrum n, proper noun
  1. Mediterranean Sea (literally, "Our Sea")
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Foreign word of the day  in Chichewa
mnkhwani class 3, noun
  1. pumpkin leaves cooked as a relish
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
οὐρανόθεν (ouranóthen) adverb
  1. from heaven
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
戲眼 / 戏眼 (xìyǎn) noun
  1. the most interesting part of an opera or film
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Foreign word of the day  in Galician
arró m, noun
  1. hedge or strip of land between two adjacent farm plots, which is usually left fallow
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
nöyhtääntyä verb
  1. to become fluffy, to become like or filled with fluff
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Foreign word of the day  in Asturian
malaya interjection
  1. darn (used to express annoyance or unpleasant surprise)
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Foreign word of the day  in Classical Nahuatl
olīn noun
  1. The seventeenth of the twenty day signs of the tōnalpōhualli; a conceptual depiction of movement as two intertwining bands of color.
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Armenian
անգուժատաբեր (angužataber) adjective
  1. bearing silphium (a plant, thought to be extinct, used in cooking and as a contraceptive)
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
क्रांतिकारी (krāntikārī) m, noun
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Death date of Bhagat Singh

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Foreign word of the day  in Old Occitan
iure adjective
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Foreign word of the day  in Classical Syriac
ܨܘܡܐ (ṣawmā) m, noun
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
каньо́н (kanʹón) m inan, noun
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