Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2024/January

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This is the January archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2024.

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Foreign word of the day  in German
guten Rutsch phrase
  1. happy New Year (literally, “good slide”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
part noun, verb
  1. (noun, Hong Kong Cantonese) part, portion, or component of the whole
  2. (verb, Hong Kong Cantonese) to partner with
  3. (verb, Hong Kong Cantonese) to partner in doing something
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Foreign word of the day  in Romanian
trece baba cu colacii phrase
  1. (colloquial) the opportunity has passed; it’s too late
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Foreign word of the day  in Silesian
morzić verb
  1. (transitive) to clean
  2. (intransitive) to have diarrhea
  3. (intransitive) to have a stomach ache
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
โค้งสุดท้าย • (kóong-sùt-táai) noun
  1. home straight: last part (of an activity, process, etc) (literally “final bend”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Urdu
حُلِیَہ • (huliya) noun
  1. the characteristics or style of a person; more strictly the countenance, face
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
ruokarauha noun
  1. peace and quiet for eating or dining
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
kwadrans akademicki noun
  1. (education) academic quarter (traditional fifteen-minutes discrepancy between the time a university lecture nominally will start (according to schedule) and the time it actually starts, used in some educational institutions)
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
ثِيرَان • (ṯīrān) noun
  1. (obsolete, uncommon) apricot
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
thật lòng adjective, adverb
  1. (adjective) sincere; frank; honest; (adverb) sincerely; frankly; honestly
    (literally, “true heart”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Kashubian
krôj noun
  1. country (territory of a nation)
  2. (dated) edge, boundary, end (boundary line of a surface)
  3. (geography) mainland
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Foreign word of the day  in Tooro
engeye noun
  1. colobus monkey (Colobus)
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Foreign word of the day  in Persian
موسیقار • (musiqâr) noun
  1. panpipes
  2. fictitious bird said to sing beautifully
  3. (obsolete) musician
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Foreign word of the day  in Aromanian
sãrmu verb
  1. (transitive) to crumble, to crumb, to break into crumbs
  2. (transitive, intransitive) to disperse, to scatter (sheep or goats) after their rest for grazing
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Foreign word of the day  in Egyptian
iAd
t		 idt
 (jꜣdt) noun
  1. dew
  2. pouring rain in a storm
  3. ‘dew’ or ‘sweat’ of a god, in figurative reference to the god’s pleasant scent
  4. divine might or influence


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t		 A14A
(jꜣdt) noun
  1. pestilence, affliction
  2. lack, deficiency, need
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
gipsvlucht noun
  1. homeward flight for people who got injured on winter holidays (literally, “plaster cast flight”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Irish
damán allaid noun
  1. spider (literally, “wild fawn, wild calf”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Azerbaijani
qalamaq verb
  1. (transitive) to heap, to pile, to stack up
  2. (transitive) to kindle, to make, to start (fire)
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
इङ्गति • (iṅgati) verb
  1. to move, to shake, to agitate
  2. (grammar) to separate the members of a compound
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
chiosa noun
  1. (literary) gloss, note, annotation
  2. (literary, figurative) explanation, clarification
  3. (obsolete) stain, spot
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
апельси́нничать • (apelʹsínničatʹ) verb
  1. (vernacular, familiar, ironic) to be or act gentle, tender, nice or cutesy
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
versipellis adjective, noun
  1. (adjective) shape-shifting, capable of transforming itself or altering its appearance
  2. (adjective, figuratively) sly, cunning, crafty
  3. (noun) werewolf, lycanthrope
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