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Foreign word of the day  in German
impfen verb
New Year's resolutions, Coronavirus pandemic

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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
katkaisuhoitola noun
New Year's resolutions

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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
siłownia noun
  1. gym (sporting facility)
  2. engine room
New Year's resolutions

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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
戰疫 / 战疫 (zhànyì) noun
  1. fight against an epidemic
New Year's resolutions, Coronavirus pandemic

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Foreign word of the day  in Swedish
fimpa noun
  1. to extinguish a cigarette
  2. (by extension) to quit smoking
  3. (slang) dump someone; to end a relationship
New Year's resolutions

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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
macrēscō verb
  1. I become thin, lean, meagre
New Year's resolutions

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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
तन दूरी • (tan dūrī) noun
New Year's resolutions, Coronavirus pandemic

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Foreign word of the day  in Ido
idiotismoza adjective

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Foreign word of the day  in Kikuyu
kĩbaũ noun

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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
mascherina noun
  1. small mask
  2. flexible pad held over the nose and mouth, such as a dust mask, paint mask, or surgical mask
  3. patch (animal marking)
  4. toecap
  5. radiator grill
Coronavirus pandemic

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Foreign word of the day  in Serbo-Croatian
marìfet / марѝфет noun
  1. (archaic, except in Islam) knowledge, cognizance, informedness, epiphany
  2. (archaic) trick, ruse, device, artifice

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Foreign word of the day  in Zhuang
yiuhrumz noun
  1. kite (lightweight toy) (literally, “wind sparrowhawk”)

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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
hoefijzerneus noun
  1. horseshoe bat, bat of the family Rhinolophidae
Coronavirus pandemic

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Foreign word of the day  in Old Georgian
შვილი • (švili) noun

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Foreign word of the day  in Armenian
հանրագիտարան • (hanragitaran) noun
20th anniversary of Wikipedia

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Foreign word of the day  in Greek
ιός • (iós) noun
  1. (medicine, microbiology) virus
  2. (computing) virus
  3. venom
    (cognate of Latin virūs)
Coronavirus pandemic

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Foreign word of the day  in Korean
손님네 • (sonnimne) proper noun
  1. (chiefly Gyeongsang and Gangwon, shamanism) the deities of epidemic (historically smallpox in particular), euphemistically referred to as "the guest folk"
Coronavirus pandemic

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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
szemöldökfa noun
  1. lintel, transom (literally, “eyebrow board”)

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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
code noun
  1. Any kind of plant gum; a gummy or resinous substance.
  2. Cud; regurgitated food chewed upon by certain livestock.
  3. (rare) A mass or hump; a large pile of something.
  4. A coherent and unified system or body of laws.
  5. The core part of someone's last testament.

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Foreign word of the day  in Chichewa
chifúwa noun
  1. chest (thorax)
  2. cold, or any other disease that can be felt in the chest
Coronavirus pandemic

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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
ノックする • (nokku suru) verb
  1. to knock
  2. to press down on the rear end of a mechanical pencil and dispense lead

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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
marisquería noun
  1. seafood shop, especially one that specializes in shellfish
  2. seafood restaurant, especially one that specializes in shellfish
Coronavirus pandemic; many early cases of COVID-19 were linked to Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market.

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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
अर्जुन • (árjuna) noun
  1. (adjective) white, clear, bright
  2. (adjective) made of silver, silvern
  3. (noun) silver
  4. (noun) slight inflammation of the conjunctiva or white of the eye
  5. (noun, plant) a particular grass
  6. (proper noun) Arjuna
  7. (noun, plural) the descendants of Arjuna

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Foreign word of the day  in French
malade adjective, noun
  1. (adjective) ill, unwell, sick
  2. (adjective, informal) mentally disturbed; crazy; nuts; mental
  3. (noun) an ill or sick person; a patient
  4. (noun, informal) somebody who is crazy; a nutcase
Coronavirus pandemic

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Foreign word of the day  in Afrikaans
robot noun
Karel Čapek's play Rossum's Universal Robots premiered on this day in 1925

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Foreign word of the day  in Classical Nahuatl
ātlān chānehqueh noun
Coronavirus pandemic; many early cases of COVID-19 were linked to Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market.

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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
оме́г • (omég) noun

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Foreign word of the day  in Ladino
las Frutas proper noun
  1. Tu BiShvat (literally, “the fruits”)

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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
لَقَاح • (laqāḥ) noun
Coronavirus pandemic

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Foreign word of the day  in Hausa
ɗan sanda noun
  1. policeman (literally, “man of the baton”)

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Foreign word of the day  in Catalan
escampar verb
  1. (transitive, reflexive) to scatter, to disperse (to (cause to) separate and go in different directions)
  2. (transitive) to spread (to disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area)
  3. (reflexive) to spread (to proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated)
  4. (reflexive, intransitive) to clear up (of stormy weather, to dissipate, to become calm)
Coronavirus pandemic
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