Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2022/May

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This is the May archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2022.

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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
रंहस् • (raṃhas) noun, proper noun, adjective
  1. (noun) celerity, quickness, speed, swiftness
  2. (noun) eagerness, impetuosity, vehemence
  3. (proper noun) an epithet of Shiva
  4. (adjective, in compounds) speeded; having the speed
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Foreign word of the day  in Catalan
lletraferit adjective, noun
  1. (adjective) fond of literature, well-read, bookish
  2. (noun) book lover, bookworm
    (literally, “letter-smitten”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
帰羅 • (kira) noun
  1. (dated) return to Los Angeles
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
yskös noun
  1. sputum (matter coughed up)
  2. hiccup (minor setback)
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
walkirie noun
  1. (rare) A female user of magic.
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Foreign word of the day  in Hausa
ɓākutu noun
  1. A neckless clay pot.
  2. A nickname for a child with big buttocks.
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"Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-Lot was released as a single on this date in 1992

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Foreign word of the day  in Egyptian
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(sšr) verb
  1. (transitive) to coat, to overlay
  2. (transitive) to gild or gold plate
  3. (transitive) to wet (one’s hand in a bowl of water)
  4. (transitive, of a hand) to stroke (along something)
  5. (transitive) to milk
  6. (transitive) to draw out (poison)
  7. (transitive) to suckle (a cow’s udder)
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Foreign word of the day  in Kikuyu
ũtukũ noun
  1. night
  2. (in the plural) days
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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
csúfnév noun
  1. an unflattering nickname based on a conspicuous characteristic or a humorous event that happened to that person
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Foreign word of the day  in Bengali
মুখপাত্র • (mukhôpatrô) noun
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
εὐώνυμος • (euṓnumos) adjective, noun
  1. of good name, honored
  2. having an auspicious name; fortunate, prosperous
  3. (euphemistic) on the left side
  4. (euphemistic) ominous, ill-boding
  5. (astronomy) southern, southerly
  6. (noun) spindle tree (Euonymus europaeus)
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
amikoszoneria noun
  1. (dated, rare) overfriendliness
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
parafiato noun
  1. (neologism) plexiglass set up, especially in stores and other places of business, to protect people from the spread (by droplets) of a pathogen
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Focus week: Coronavirus neologisms

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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
anderhalvemetersamenleving noun
  1. A society wherein the citizens are able to keep a distance of one and a half metres from each other, for the sake of social distancing.
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
援鄂 (yuán'è) verb
  1. (neologism, chiefly attributive) to aid (in the fight against COVID-19) in Hubei province
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Foreign word of the day  in French
coronapiste noun
  1. (neologism) A temporary bicycle path created to decongest urban areas during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Foreign word of the day  in Norwegian Bokmål
søringkarantene noun
  1. (humorous) quarantine of people (coming) from the South of Norway
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
infectódromo noun
  1. (Spain) A place with crowds where many people get infected with a disease.
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Coronasünder noun
  1. Someone who infringes the regulations in relation to COVID-19.
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Foreign word of the day  in Harari
ቀርሺ (ḳärši) noun
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Today is Pizza Day.

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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
कच्छेष्ट • (kaccheṣṭa) noun
  1. tortoise (literally, “dear to the shore”)
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World Turtle Day

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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
tagarela adjective, noun
  1. (adjective) blabbermouthed; talkative; excessively chatty
  2. (noun) chatterbox; blabbermouth (someone who talks or gossips excessively)
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Foreign word of the day  in Yoruba
dòdò ideophone, noun
  1. (ideophone, of an object) being deeply or richly red
  2. (noun) fried plantain
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle Korean
바오달〮 (pà(G)wòtál) noun
  1. an encampment, such as for a military host or for the royal entourage
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
хамса́ • (xamsá) noun
  1. European anchovy, Azov anchovy (small saltwater fish)
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
siêu xuyệt adjective
  1. (of an address) Having a house number with exceptionally many slashes.
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
زُولِيَّة • (zūliyya) noun
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Today is Carpet Day in Turkmenistan.

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Foreign word of the day  in Punic
𐤉𐤁𐤋 (ybl) noun
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