Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2024/May

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

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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
psynek noun (neologism, colloquial) dog-son (dog, treated as if a son of the owner)
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Foreign word of the day  in Sranan Tongo
no kosi kaiman mama fosi yu abra liba proverb don't insult people who might hurt your interests; don't self-sabotage don't count your chickens before they're hatched (literally, “don't curse the caiman's mother before you've crossed the river”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Persian
وخیم • (vaxim) adjective perilous, dangerous (especially of health)
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
murga noun band or group of street musicians (colloquial) bugbear; pain; drag (annoyance)
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
tẩm bổ verb to improve one's general health (such as after recovery from disease, during pregnancy, in old age…), usually by eating especially nutritious food
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Vielfraß noun glutton (person who eats a lot) wolverine, glutton (Gulo gulo)
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
brūgāria noun (early mediaeval Latin) heather, heath (early mediaeval Latin) heath, heathland
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Foreign word of the day  in Pela
mi̠⁵⁵ pʰa³¹ noun parents, mother and father
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
सँभालना • (sambhālnā) verb to support, to sustain; to hold up to hold; not to let go to keep in place; to adjust (clothing) to assist, to help to maintain to take care of, to look after to manage to restrain, to check, to curb to correct (a child); to punish
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
diskuteerata verb (jocular, intransitive, Swedish politics) to discuss at length; to delay the political process so as to give everyone a chance to speak up
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