Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2023/January

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Foreign word of the day  in Polish

na Małysza adverb (slang, jocular, chiefly of a person in the bathroom) squatting, so as to avoid touching the toilet

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Foreign word of the day  in Latin

irritus adjective invalid, void, null and void ineffective, useless, irrelevant

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Foreign word of the day  in Persian

کباب • (kabâb) noun kebab (roast meat dish) (figurative) heart burning with emotion; heart being "roasted" with yearning or grief

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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish

uve noun A hole in the ice of a lake or other body of water, created by water flowing from below the ice. (dialectal, poetic) A stallion.

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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch

kruikenmoeder noun A machine and storage cabinet designed for heating multiple standardised hot water bottles simultaneously (literally, “crock mother, hot-water-bottle mother”).

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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese

大丈夫 • (daijōbu) noun, adjective (noun, archaic) a man of class; a great man (adjective, of a person) all right; okay; in good health; uninjured (adjective, of an object) all right, unbroken, still working (adjective) certain, correct, certifiable (adjective, after the te form of a verb) indifferent, unconcerned (adjective, in response to an offer) no thank you

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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish

esquirla noun (piece of) shrapnel fragment; shard (figurative) fragment; glimmer; chink

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Foreign word of the day  in Greek

αλευρόγαια • (alevrógaia) noun (obsolete, inorganic compound) magnesium oxide, magnesia, a white powder (MgO) which is an ore of magnesium

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Foreign word of the day  in Gothic

𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌹𐌸𐌰 • (aggwiþa) noun distress, anguish, affliction, tribulation

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Foreign word of the day  in Thai

วันยังค่ำ • (wan-yang-kâm) adverb all the time, always; forever, perpetually throughout the day; all day

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Foreign word of the day  in Ukrainian

передумо́ва • (peredumóva) noun precondition, prerequisite premise

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Foreign word of the day  in Italian

loico noun (archaic) intelligent, logical person; sharp thinker

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Foreign word of the day  in Indonesian

terlunta-lunta adjective often in a state of misfortune or suffering from hardship

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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi

रसना • (rasnā) verb to drip; to flow slowly (obsolete, or, dialectal) to relish, to savour, to enjoy

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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English

drem noun music (either sung or instrumental) voice, conversing joy, mirthfulness dream (especially a prophetic one) (waking) vision, premonition

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Foreign word of the day  in Old Georgian

აღცრაჲ • (aɣcray) verb to sift to scatter, to disperse

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Foreign word of the day  in Korean

가설 • (gaseol) noun conjecture hypothesis construction

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Foreign word of the day  in Andalusian Arabic

بِشْط (bišṭ, pišṭ) noun canary grass

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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek

περιφέρεια • (periphéreia) noun a periphery; outer bounds (mathematics, geometry) circumference; the line round a circular body (mathematics, geometry) arc of a circle; circular arc rounded surface; curve; curved or spherical shape curvature; roundness (figurative, Biblical) wandering; error; madness

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Foreign word of the day  in German

High Snobiety noun (sometimes derogatory) High society, posh people, especially those with snobbish attitudes.

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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese

壓歲 / 压岁 (yāsuì) verb to give children money or auspicious items during the Chinese New Year, originally intended to help dispel evil spirits (as children are most likely to be affected by such spirits)

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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese

tabefe noun (cooking) dessert made with milk, eggs and sugar whey (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled) (informal) slap, smack

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Foreign word of the day  in Tuvan

акы-дуңма • (akı-duñma) noun siblings, brothers, sisters relatives

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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic

كَافُور • (kāfūr) noun camphor tree, Cinnamomum camphora the chemical compound camphor Eucalyptus camaldulensis bract of the inflorescence of the date palm

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Foreign word of the day  in French

toison noun fleece mop (of hair); mane (slang) muff, pubes (especially of a woman) (slang) the hair of a man's torso

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Foreign word of the day  in Kashmiri

گاش • (gāś) noun light, radiance, lustre daylight knowledge literacy eyesight; clearness, brightness (of the eye)

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Foreign word of the day  in Russian

лю́лька • (ljúlʹka) noun cradle (oscillating bed for a baby) (construction) suspended scaffold, cradle (lifting device) (colloquial) sidecar (of a motorcycle) (colloquial) tobacco pipe

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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese

hoả xa noun (dated) train (Buddhism) a fiery chariot that brings sinners to hell

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