Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2023/June

This is the June archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2023.

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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
achnąć verb (intransitive, obsolete, thieves' cant) to punch (colloquial, intransitive) to ooh and ahh, to marvel at something, especially in an extreme or over-the-top way
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Foreign word of the day  in Urdu
ماحَول • (māḥaul) noun atmosphere, environment ambience circumstance, condition (surroundings in which one lives)
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Wackeldackel noun dachshund-shaped bobblehead (figuratively) yes-man
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
tuima adjective (of forces of nature, struggle etc.) severe, vigorous, fierce stern, somber, severe, grim (grim and forbidding in appearance) (of food, Western Finnish) spicy, sharp, pungent, excessively salty (having a strong taste) (of food, Eastern Finnish) bland, saltless, lacking salt
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
charneca noun heathland (tract of scrubland habitats characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation)
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
暗光鳥 / 暗光鸟 (àm-kong-chiáu) noun (Hokkien) owl (Taiwan Min Nan) black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) (Hokkien) night owl; someone who goes to bed late
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
νεφέλη • (nephélē) noun cloud, mass of clouds cloud in urine cloud on a mirror (in the plural) fine bird-net (alchemy) sublimate
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
يَانَصِيب • (yānaṣīb) noun lottery, lotto (literally “o fate”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Gothic
𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌴𐌸𐍃 • (manasēþs) noun the world (human collective existence)
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
หัวกะทิ • (hǔua-gà-tí) noun (cookery) coconut cream, the thick version of coconut milk, often obtained from the first pressings of grated coconut (idiomatic) cream of the crop; best of the best
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Foreign word of the day  in Kikuyu
ndundu noun secret talk, secret agreement owl
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
ibahesj noun (Netherlands, slang) police
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Foreign word of the day  in French
larbinisme noun flunkey-ism, servilism, sycophantism
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
شِيص • (šīṣ) noun dates of a palm that has not been fecundated and thus have not ripened with stones
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
impedīmentum noun impediment, hindrance (usually in the plural) luggage, equipage
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
शिक्य • (śikyà) noun a kind of loop or swing made of rope and suspended from either end of a pole or yoke to receive a load, carrying swing (also applied to the load so carried) the string of a balance
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Irish
trom adjective heavy (weight) heavy, severe, grievous, difficult (by extension) sad, sorrowful great, vast, powerful, mighty
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
sử xanh noun green chronicles (account of historical events written on green bamboo slips); (figurative) old book; history book
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Foreign word of the day  in Norwegian Bokmål
grilldress noun (humorous) a tracksuit used when grilling (or in general as a form of leisurewear, literally “grill dress”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
दख़ल • (daxal) noun entrance, access intrusion, meddling, interference reach, extent influence, power
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Foreign word of the day  in Ye'kwana
sömajö noun territory temporarily closed off to hunting to allow animal populations to recover
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Foreign word of the day  in Serbo-Croatian
каса̀ба / kasàba noun (regional) town (regional) Podunk
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Foreign word of the day  in Romanian
a încurca verb to tangle; to get tangled; to entangle to become or to render flustered, knowing not what to say (chiefly in the negative) to bother with something to mix up, to confuse (with placeholder o) to be in trouble to catch somebody in one’s web (colloquial, only in the negative) to play around (colloquial) to neglectfully linger somewhere (colloquial, with placeholder o, mostly construed with mai) to improvise clumsy solutions for the moment, make do
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