Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2019/March

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 Dutch
grimlach m, noun a scornful, grim, or bitter smirk
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
Mare Nostrum n, proper noun Mediterranean Sea (literally, "Our Sea")
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Foreign word of the day  in Chichewa
mnkhwani class 3, noun pumpkin leaves cooked as a relish
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
siglas poveiras f pl, noun a protowriting system used in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, to identify families, fishing boats or ownership, as house marks, and for mystical purposes
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
οὐρανόθεν • (ouranóthen) adverb from heaven
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
戲眼 / 戏眼 (xìyǎn) noun the most interesting part of an opera or film
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Foreign word of the day  in Gothic
𐌰𐌿𐌶𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌹𐌻 • (auzandil) m, noun the morning star: Venus, Lucifer
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
دَبَّجَ • (dabbaja) verb to adorn, to embellish, to deck out to express in a splendid manner, to dress up, to formulate gaudily
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Foreign word of the day  in German
schnabulieren verb (colloquial, humorous) to eat heartily; to indulge
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Foreign word of the day  in Galician
arró m, noun 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 Sanskrit
माया • (māyā́) f, noun (Vedic) art, wisdom, inhuman or supernatural power (Vedic, Classical Sanskrit) illusion, deception, trickery, demonic magic
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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
kocka noun (geometry) cube (games) die, dice square (rectangular cell in a grid or pattern) (slang) nerd, geek
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
nöyhtääntyä verb to become fluffy, to become like or filled with fluff
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Foreign word of the day  in Asturian
malaya interjection darn (used to express annoyance or unpleasant surprise)
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Foreign word of the day  in Classical Nahuatl
olīn noun 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 Irish
cimbid m, noun prisoner, captive victim
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Armenian
անգուժատաբեր • (angužataber) adjective 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 Thai
การเลือกตั้งทั่วไป • (gaan-lʉ̂ʉak-dtâng-tûua-bpai) noun general election
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Foreign word of the day  in Classical Syriac
ܨܘܡܐ • (ṣawmā) m, noun fast (abstention from food)
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
chifa m or f, noun (South America) A Chinese restaurant.
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
horden verb To secrete, hoard or amass; to store valuables away. To hide or disguise sinfulness.
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
vắng tanh adjective completely and utterly deserted
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
каньо́н • (kanʹón) m inan, noun canyon (Israel) indoor shopping mall
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