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Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2013/June

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This is the June archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2013.

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Foreign word of the day  in German
Kleiderschrank m., noun
  1. wardrobe (cabinet in which clothes may be stored)
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
дерзать (derzát') verb
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
armiger adjective
  1. Carrying weapons or armor/armour; armed; warlike.
  2. (substantive) Weapon-bearer, i.e. warrior's assistant, an armor bearer, armour bearer, shield bearer.
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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
verőfényes adjective
  1. sunkissed, sunlit
  2. (figuratively) sunny, cheerful, happy (mood)
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Foreign word of the day  in French
apprêter verb
  1. (transitive) To prepare, to get ready
  2. (reflexive, followed by à) to prepare for/to do, to get ready for/to do, to be about to do
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Foreign word of the day  in Armenian
ծնգցնել (cngcʿnel) verb
  1. (colloquial, transitive) to call a mobile phone and let it ring once so that the other person will call back, saving the first caller money
  2. (colloquial, transitive) to call a mobile phone and let it ring once so that the other person could easily save the first person's number to his phone's memory, without having to enter it manually
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
pentacolo m., noun
  1. amulet of metal or stone, hung around the neck
  2. pentacle
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
babau interjection
  1. used when something is lost forever
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Foreign word of the day  in Emilian
prît m., noun
  1. priest; clergyman
  2. (figurative) a hypocrite
  3. a wooden bedwarmer
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Foreign word of the day  in Kaingang
pãgfénh verb
  1. to cover with ferns
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Foreign word of the day  in Quechua
llik’iq adjective
  1. which tears cloth
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Foreign word of the day  in Vandalic
eils interjection
  1. Hail!
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Dutch
ᚨᚾᚾ (ann) verb
  1. to give, to grant, to bestow (first and third person singular present)
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Foreign word of the day  in Crimean Gothic
kilemschkop phrase
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Foreign word of the day  in Lusitanian
Harase dat., proper noun
  1. a god of the ancient Lusitanians
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Foreign word of the day  in Norn
Chimeri noun
  1. (religion) heaven
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Foreign word of the day  in South Picene
mefiín adjective
  1. in the middle
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Foreign word of the day  in Noric
Artebudz proper noun
  1. A male given name
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Foreign word of the day  in Aragonese
pas adverb
  1. emphasises a negation; (not) at all; (not) ever
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Foreign word of the day  in Catalan
bufanúvols m., f., noun
  1. pretentious person; literally: cloud blower
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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
év noun
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Foreign word of the day  in Asturian
probitú f., noun
  1. poverty (quality or state of being poor)
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Spannungsbogen m., noun
  1. a sequence of events which serve to allow tension or suspense to rise
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Foreign word of the day  in Egyptian
D&d mdZ1
Z2ss
(ḏd-mdw)
m., noun
  1. a recitation; a title introducing the main bulk of a religious text, after any prologues.
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
городничий (gorodníčij) m., noun
  1. governor, mayor of an uyezd city
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Galician-Portuguese
infançon m., noun
  1. a noble ranked below a ricome and above a cavaleiro
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