Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2022/January

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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish

uvas de la suerte noun Twelve grapes that are traditionally eaten in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries as the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve

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Foreign word of the day  in Thai

วงกต • (wong-gòt) proper noun, noun (proper noun, Buddhism) Vaṅkata, a mythological mountain known for having intricate paths. (noun) labyrinth; maze.

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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit

पाथस् • (pā́thas) noun spot, place food (especially as an offering) (Classical Sanskrit) water

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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English

brand noun fire, flame burning wood or coal torch (lit stick) sword, blade

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Foreign word of the day  in Italian

collacrimare verb (archaic, intransitive) to weep or cry together (archaic, transitive) to feel sorry for

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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic

رَيْحَان • (rayḥān) noun (obsolete) fragrant plant, aromatic herb basil (Ocimum gen. et spp.) (Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Cyprus, Al-Andalus) myrtle (Myrtus gen. et spp.)

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Foreign word of the day  in Polish

łapaczka noun little trap (small machine or other device designed to catch) little shutter, small lid

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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese

鐵公雞 / 铁公鸡 (tiěgōngjī) noun (xiehouyu, figurative) cheapskate; scrooge

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Foreign word of the day  in Old Armenian

մանկանամ • (mankanam) verb to become young

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Foreign word of the day  in Hausa

dumɓu noun worn-out tool (figuratively) dimwit

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Foreign word of the day  in Russian

подного́тный • (podnogótnyj) adjective under the fingernail (figuratively) secret, hidden (figuratively) perfectly frank, brutally honest; giving the lowdown on something (figuratively) meticulous, thorough (in relation to searches, examination)

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Foreign word of the day  in Latin

salisātor noun a superstitious person who takes the twitching of body parts as omen (literally, “jumper”)

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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese

エラー • (erā) noun error

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Foreign word of the day  in Old Irish

con·meil verb to rub, to grind to consume to destroy

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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek

ἐν πᾰρᾰβύστῳ • (en parabústōi) prepositional phrase sneakily, on the sly, in a hole-and-corner

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Foreign word of the day  in Swedish

bamba noun (dialectal, Gothenburg) school canteen

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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese

nhổ verb to spit, to spit out to pull out something that's planted firmly into a surface

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Foreign word of the day  in Afrikaans

veteraanmotor noun A classic car (literally, “veteran motor(car)”).

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Foreign word of the day  in Serbo-Croatian

пи̏к noun spades in card- and boardgames (childish, Croatia) used in set phrases in a certain children’s game “пик спас” to denote a safe place (archaic) place of skirmish, battleground inclination to be mean, acridity gaff, a diagonal beam on which a sail is attached peak

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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish

suksia kuuseen verb (colloquial, chiefly in the imperative) to go away, to get lost (literally, “to ski into a spruce tree”)

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Foreign word of the day  in French

controuver verb (rare, literary) to contrive

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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi

वनमानुष • (vanmānuṣ) noun ape (literally “man of forest”)

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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch

chocoladebeen noun (association football) The non-dominant leg of a football player.

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Foreign word of the day  in Korean

사리 • (sari) noun mass of noodles reason, logic, sense

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Foreign word of the day  in Lithuanian

nugrybáuti verb (transitive) to pick mushrooms (intransitive) to wander, lose one's way (literally, “to get lost wandering in search of mushrooms”) (intransitive, by extension) to wander, become distracted during a task (intransitive, by extension) to malfunction, go off the rails (of a device, program, etc.)

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