Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2021/July

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This is the July archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2021.

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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
अधुना (adhunā́) adverb
  1. at this time, now
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Foreign word of the day  in Volapük
tood noun
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The Benz Patent-Motorwagen Nummer 1 had its first public test drive on this day in 1886

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Foreign word of the day  in Icelandic
Bandaríkin proper noun
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Independence Day (United States)

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Foreign word of the day  in German
Burkane noun
  1. (dialectal, Baltic) carrot
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
شَعْرَى (šaʿrā) noun
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Foreign word of the day  in French
train de sénateur noun
  1. snail's pace, stately pace, solemn gait (literally, “senator's pace”)
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Jean de la Fontaine was born on this day 400 years ago

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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
hàm ếch noun
  1. (anatomy) palate
  2. vaulted opening
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Foreign word of the day  in Serbo-Croatian
šestòper / шесто̀пер noun
  1. (historical, military) A six-flanged mace.
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
cadere nel vuoto verb
  1. (idiomatic) to fall on deaf ears (literally, “to fall in the void”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Greenlandic
eqalussuannguvoq verb
  1. to be ill from eating shark meat
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Foreign word of the day  in Greek
καρμανιόλα (karmanióla) noun
  1. (historical) guillotine (for capital punishment)
  2. (figuratively) accident blackspot or a warning sign for one
  3. (obsolete, historical) a French song and dance
  4. (colloquial) a very expensive restaurant
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Foreign word of the day  in Czech
drť noun
  1. disintegrated or crushed material, for example grit
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Foreign word of the day  in Punic
𐤕𐤉𐤍 (tyn) noun
  1. fig
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
aamukampa noun
  1. (military slang) A comb on which every tooth represents one remaining morning of military service - every morning one tooth is removed (literally, “morning comb”).
  2. (figuratively, by extension) The remaining last days of anything.
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Foreign word of the day  in Persian
ارغند (arğand) adjective
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
番綻 / 番绽 (fân-chhan) adjective
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
bouwvakkersdecolleté noun
  1. (informal) A plumber's crack, a builder's bum (literally, “builder's cleavage”).
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
вокза́л (vokzál) noun
  1. (transportation) station, terminal (with a building for passenger facilities), especially for the railways
  2. (obsolete) park, pleasure garden
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
armiductor noun
  1. (Medieval Latin) commander of an army
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Foreign word of the day  in Kikuyu
mwatũ noun
  1. a beehive made of a tree trunk split in two and hollowed out
  2. a cylindrical wooden barrel whose both ends have lids, used for storage in the home
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
त्वरित (tvarit) adjective, adverb
  1. (adjective) fast, speedy, quick
  2. (adjective) hasty, hurried
  3. (adverb) hastily, quickly, soon
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
คืนหมาหอน (kʉʉn-mǎa-hɔ̌ɔn) noun
  1. (slang) election eve: the night before an election day (literally, “dog-howling night”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Swahili
zamu noun
  1. turn (one's chance to use or do something, as in a game)
  2. duty, responsibility
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Foreign word of the day  in Lower Sorbian
slě noun
  1. breast harness for horses
  2. suspenders, braces (strap for holding up trousers)
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Foreign word of the day  in Afrikaans
dokkie noun
  1. (informal) documentary
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Foreign word of the day  in Korean
버리다 (beorida) verb
  1. (transitive) to throw away (a thing), to abandon (a person)
  2. (auxiliary) marks completion of the main verb, often with the implication that the result is negative
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Foreign word of the day  in Yoruba
yàúyàúù noun
  1. Internet fraudster
  2. User of Yahoo!
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