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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
achnąć verb
  1. (intransitive, obsolete, thieves' cant) to punch
  2. (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

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Foreign word of the day  in German
Wackeldackel noun
  1. dachshund-shaped bobblehead
  2. (figuratively) yes-man

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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
tuima adjective
  1. (of forces of nature, struggle etc.) severe, vigorous, fierce
  2. stern, somber, severe, grim (grim and forbidding in appearance)
  3. (of food, Western Finnish) spicy, sharp, pungent, excessively salty (having a strong taste)
  4. (of food, Eastern Finnish) bland, saltless, lacking salt

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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
charneca noun
  1. 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
  1. (Hokkien) owl
  2. (Taiwan Min Nan) black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
  3. (Hokkien) night owl; someone who goes to bed late

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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
νεφέλη • (nephélē) noun
  1. cloud, mass of clouds
  2. cloud in urine
  3. cloud on a mirror
  4. (in the plural) fine bird-net
  5. (alchemy) sublimate

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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
يَانَصِيب • (yānaṣīb) noun
  1. lottery, lotto (literally “o fate”)

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Foreign word of the day  in Gothic
𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌴𐌸𐍃 • (manasēþs) noun
  1. the world (human collective existence)

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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
infausto adjective

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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
หัวกะทิ • (hǔua-gà-tí) noun

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Foreign word of the day  in Kikuyu
ndundu noun

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Foreign word of the day  in Old Irish
bïáil noun

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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
ibahesj noun
  1. (Netherlands, slang) police

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Foreign word of the day  in French
larbinisme noun

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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
شِيص • (šīṣ) noun
  1. 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
  1. impediment, hindrance
  2. (usually in the plural) luggage, equipage

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Foreign word of the day  in Jarawa
olo olo noun

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Foreign word of the day  in Esperanto
amaskomunikilo noun

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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
शिक्य • (śikyà) noun
  1. 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)
  2. the string of a balance

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Foreign word of the day  in Old Irish
trom adjective
  1. heavy (weight)
  2. heavy, severe, grievous, difficult
  3. (by extension) sad, sorrowful
  4. great, vast, powerful, mighty

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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
sử xanh noun

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Foreign word of the day  in Egyptian
dmiiN21
Z1
(dmj) noun
  1. locality, quarter, town
  2. harbor
  3. (Greco-Roman Period) dry land, ground not covered by water

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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
occhiataccia noun

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Foreign word of the day  in Kikuyu
mwaki noun

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Foreign word of the day  in Norwegian Bokmål
grilldress noun
  1. (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

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Foreign word of the day  in Ye'kwana
sömajö noun

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Foreign word of the day  in Serbo-Croatian
каса̀ба / kasàba noun
  1. (regional) town
  2. (regional) Podunk

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Foreign word of the day  in Romanian
a încurca verb
  1. to tangle; to get tangled; to entangle
  2. to become or to render flustered, knowing not what to say
  3. (chiefly in the negative) to bother with something
  4. to mix up, to confuse
  5. (with placeholder o) to be in trouble
  6. to catch somebody in one’s web
  7. (colloquial, only in the negative) to play around
  8. (colloquial) to neglectfully linger somewhere
  9. (colloquial, with placeholder o, mostly construed with mai) to improvise clumsy solutions for the moment, make do
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