Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2023/April

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

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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
ज़रूर (zarūr) adverb, interjection
  1. (adverb) certainly, surely
  2. (interjection) definitely; of course!
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
mustasukkainen adjective
  1. jealous (possessive, protective, suspecting rivalry in love)
  2. (literally) black-socked, wearing black socks
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Foreign word of the day  in Egyptian
E9wawA1
(jwꜥw)
noun
  1. heir


E9wawS21
(jwꜥw) noun

  1. a ring or armband given as a reward
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
chumbo noun
  1. (chemical element) lead (chemical element)
  2. lead metal
  3. shot, pellet
  4. (Portugal, education, colloquial) fail
  5. (Portugal, colloquial) rejection
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Foreign word of the day  in Hebrew
כַּרְפַּס (karpás) noun
  1. celery
  2. (Biblical, rare) a type of expensive fabric made of cotton
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First day of Passover

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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
фата́ (fatá) noun
  1. bridal veil
  2. (obsolete) any translucent light fabric of untwisted threads of silk or paper or both
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Foreign word of the day  in Yoruba
àfòpiná noun
  1. moth (literally, “one who flies and kills (turns off) the light”)
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8

Foreign word of the day  in Korean
웅크리다 (ungkeurida) verb
  1. (transitive) to crouch; to cause to crouch (a body part)
  2. (intransitive, figurative, of emotions, etc.) to exist in a suppressed or hidden state
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Foreign word of the day  in Swedish
påskmust noun
  1. a dark carbonated soft drink containing hop and malt extract, drunk during Easter
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
cōticula noun
  1. a touchstone
  2. a small stone mortar for medical use
    (literally, “little whetstone, little grindstone”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Kashubian
òrzesznica noun
  1. squirrel (rodent of the family Sciuridae)
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
غَافِث / غَافَث (ḡāfiṯ / ḡāfaṯ) noun
  1. agrimony (Agrimonia gen. et spp.), especially the common agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria)
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Foreign word of the day  in Catalan
vaiverejar verb
  1. (intransitive) to go back and forth, to wander, to pace side-to-side, etc.
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Foreign word of the day  in Bengali
নববর্ষ (nôbôbôrśô) noun
  1. new year
  2. the start of a year
  3. first day of the year
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Bengali New Year in Bangladesh

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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
สังฆกรรม (sǎng-ká-gam) noun
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Foreign word of the day  in Ukrainian
пи́санка (pýsanka) noun
  1. Easter egg, usually a painted and/or decorated one
  2. (figurative) beautiful, nice thing
  3. (figurative) pretty girl or woman
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Easter Sunday according to the Julian calendar

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Foreign word of the day  in German
Gassenhauer noun
  1. (literally, possibly, obsolete) somebody who walks (about) on alleys
  2. (possibly, obsolete) a song sung on alleys
  3. (colloquial, derogatory, dated) popular tune, ditty
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Foreign word of the day  in French
arrêter verb
  1. (ambitransitive) to halt; to stop
  2. (archaic) to settle; to conclude; to agree (upon)
  3. (transitive) to arrest (a criminal, etc)
  4. (reflexive) to come to a stop
  5. (Louisiana French, Cajun French) to wait
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
lưới B40 noun
  1. (colloquial) chainlink fencing (literally, “RPG-2 net”, referring to the rocket-propelled grenade)
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
σύννᾱος (súnnāos) adjective
  1. honored in the same temple; sharing a temple with another deity
  2. (figuratively, in the dative) connected to something else
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
panatela noun
  1. long thin biscuit
  2. long thin cigar
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24

Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
melkboerenhondenhaar noun
  1. (derogatory) damaged and light, often yellowish, outgrowths of hair
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
bikiniarz noun
  1. (historical) stilyaga
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
龍鳳胎 / 龙凤胎 (lóngfèngtāi) noun
  1. boy-girl twins (literally, “boy-and-girl litter, dragon-and-phoenix litter”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
उत्स (útsa) noun
  1. a spring, fountain, water-source
  2. (metaphorically) a cloud
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
憚る (habakaru) verb
  1. to hesitate, to be afraid to do
  2. to throw one's weight around, to make one's presence felt
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