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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
鏡花水月 / 镜花水月 (jìnghuāshuǐyuè) idiom
  1. (figurative) something that is visible but has no substance, fantasy, illusion
  2. (figurative) the subtle and profound beauty of poems that cannot be described in words​

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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
piá de prédio noun
  1. (Paraná) a boy or man who had a sheltered upbringing, lacks outdoor skills and is not streetwise (literally, “apartment-block boy”)

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Foreign word of the day  in Swedish
mojäng noun
  1. (colloquial) gadget, utility

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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
ψιλογραφέω • (psīlographéō) verb
  1. to write with a single vowel letter (not a digraph)

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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
kính noun
  1. glass
  2. eyeglasses
  3. (colloquial, chiefly in southern Vietnam) a mirror

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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
а́кать • (ákatʹ) verb
  1. (linguistics) to pronounce an unstressed о like an а (as seen in Central and Southern Russia, considered standard)

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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
felawrede noun
  1. Friendly partnership or companionship; having company.
  2. A (usually military) fellowship, band, or company; a group united by a goal.
  3. The believers of a religion; a religious community.
  4. (rare) Religious communion or connection.
  5. (rare) (The act of) sex or intercourse.

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Foreign word of the day  in Middle Bengali
ঘর (ghara) noun

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Foreign word of the day  in Maltese
żmien żemżem noun
  1. the distant past (literally “the time of Zamzam”)

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Foreign word of the day  in Old Irish
fogur noun
  1. a sound

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Foreign word of the day  in Korean
거두절미 / 去頭截尾 • (geodujeolmi) noun
  1. cutting to the chase; saying only the essentials; saying only what ought to be said
  2. removing the context of something said; reporting something in a partial way
  3. (literally, now rare) severing the head and tail; severing the tips (in cooking)

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Foreign word of the day  in French
montagnes russes noun
  1. rollercoaster (amusement ride)
  2. rollercoaster (any situation in which there are ups and downs or violent changes; hectic situation)

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Foreign word of the day  in Norwegian Bokmål
bomvei noun
  1. a toll road, a turnpike
  2. a road that is closed with a barrier
Focus week: Infrastructure

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Foreign word of the day  in Czech
dálnice noun
Focus week: Infrastructure

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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
مَطَار • (maṭār) noun
Focus week: Infrastructure

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Foreign word of the day  in Afrikaans
duikweg noun
  1. A tunnel (literally, “dive-road”).
Focus week: Infrastructure

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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
glorieta noun
Focus week: Infrastructure

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Foreign word of the day  in Swahili
mfereji noun
  1. canal, channel, ditch (for water)
  2. pipe for water, or the tap which dispenses it
Focus week: Infrastructure

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Foreign word of the day  in German
Gleis noun
  1. railway, pair of tracks
  2. single railway track
Focus week: Infrastructure

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Foreign word of the day  in Esperanto
belsona adjective
  1. euphonious (literally, “beautiful-soundly”)

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Foreign word of the day  in Old Norse
sigrún noun
  1. victory rune; a rune thought to have been imbued with a magical power to grant victory

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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
आचरति • (ācarati) verb
  1. (with accusative) to approach, come near
  2. to lead (on a path)
  3. to address, apply
  4. to manage; behave
  5. to examine a witness
  6. to have intercourse
  7. to cast in the fire

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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
เงือก • (ngʉ̂ʉak) noun
  1. (archaic) crocodile.
  2. (archaic) snake.
  3. (archaic, mythology, literature) nāga; dragon; serpent.
  4. (archaic, mythology, literature) malevolent creature having a snake- or crocodile-like appearance and associated with water.
  5. merperson.
  6. (sports slang) swimmer.
  7. (slang) dugong.

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Foreign word of the day  in Occitan
mèstre noun
  1. master
  2. (nautical) mainsail

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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
鰐 • (wani) noun
  1. a crocodilian (crocodile, alligator, gavial)
  2. (obsolete) a shark or other large and dangerous fish

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Foreign word of the day  in Bulgarian
ха́рен • (háren) adjective

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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
palanca noun

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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
meleg adjective
  1. warm, hot
  2. heartfelt, cordial, warm
  3. (figurative) warm, having a warm (red to yellow) colour
  4. gay (possessing sexual attraction towards members of the same gender, or relating to gay culture)
  5. (colloquial) difficult, tight, close (of a situation, coming close to resulting in harm)
  6. (colloquial) warm (very close to finding or guessing something in a game)
On this day in 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, leading to the Stonewall riots.

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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
ग़ज़ब • (ġazab) noun
  1. disaster; something disastrous
  2. excess, extreme
  3. (informal) a wonder, sight; something splendid

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Foreign word of the day  in Gaulish
odocos noun
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