Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2016/October

This is the October archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2016.

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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
лоботря́с • (lobotrjás) m anim, noun (colloquial) idler, lazybones
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
พรหมลิขิต • (prom-lí-kìt) noun destiny, fate (literally "Brahma's writing")
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Foreign word of the day  in Yiddish
ראָש־השנה • (rosheshone) m, noun Rosh Hashanah
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Foreign word of the day  in Nias
öri noun a group of villages counted as one unit bracelet, amulet
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Foreign word of the day  in Scottish Gaelic
neart m, noun strength, power, might, energy, pith, force, vigour plenty, abundance the greater part of something valour
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
redituro adjective (poetic) about to return (by extension) that will eventually return
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
lūcubrō verb (intransitive) I work at night or by candlelight or lamplight, I lucubrate (transitive) I make or produce at night or by candlelight or lamplight
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
zede f, noun a norm or habit considered to be just or desirable (in the plural) mores, especially sexual mores
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Foreign word of the day  in Hebrew
גְּמַר חֲתִימָה טוֹבָה • (g'már khatimá tová) interjection May you be signed and sealed in the Book of Life (a common greeting on and before Yom Kippur).
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
descubrimiento m, noun discovery unveiling
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Church Slavonic
оудавлѥнина • (udavljenina) f, noun flesh of a strangled animal
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Foreign word of the day  in Burmese
ဇာတ် • (jat) noun a kind of Burmese dramatic performance including music and dance life, existence caste
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Foreign word of the day  in German
beheimaten verb to give someone a new home or homeland to reestablish or reintroduce a species; to give an organism a new habitat to be or become a home for something or someone
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
ἀποκολοκύντωσις • (apokolokúntōsis) f, noun pumpkinification (the act of turning into a pumpkin, in jocular contrast with deification)
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
聖地 • (seichi) noun hallowed ground, holy place; the Holy Land (fandom slang) real-life location that served as the model of a fictional location
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Foreign word of the day  in French
lèche-vitrine m or f, noun (only in the masculine) window-shopping window-shopper
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
fōrgreithing noun An act of making ready; preparation.
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Foreign word of the day  in Coptic
ⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ • (noute) noun (Sahidic) god, (with definite article) God
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Foreign word of the day  in Serbo-Croatian
ošišana latinica / ошишана латиница f, noun Serbo-Croatian Latin script without the háček diacritical marks (literally "sheared Latin script")
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Foreign word of the day  in Moksha
афоль • (afolʹ) particle (subjunctive) would not
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
壓驚 ／ 压惊 (yājīng) verb to help someone get over a shock (typically with some liquor, food or cigarettes)
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Foreign word of the day  in Esperanto
jam temp' está phrase it's high time, it's about time
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
Pellervoinen proper noun A god of fields and growth in Finnish mythology.
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Foreign word of the day  in Classical Nahuatl
ōllamaliztli noun A ritual ball game in which two teams of players strike a solid rubber ball with their hips within a masonry ballcourt.
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Foreign word of the day  in Welsh
didranc adjective endless, eternal (loosely, of food) non-perishable
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Foreign word of the day  in Burmese
ကြာ • (kra) noun and verb water lily, lotus take a long time, be a long time (since)
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
xituculumucumba m, noun (Mozambique) a kind of evil spirit or bogeyman that appears in nightmares
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