Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2013/March

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

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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
corvīnus adjective corvine; of or pertaining to crows or ravens
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Foreign word of the day  in Mandarin
囧 (jiǒng) noun patterned window; a clear and bright window; shining, brightness (neologism, slang, humorous) an emoticon expressing surprise, shock, embarrassment, helplessness or awkwardness
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
へのへのもへじ • (henohenomoheji) noun a face drawn using the hiragana characters he (へ), no (の), he (へ), no (の), mo (も), he (へ), and ji (じ)
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Foreign word of the day  in Ligurian
âa m., noun wing (appendage of an animal’s body that enables it to fly)
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
cabisbaixo adjective having one’s head turned down, due to sadness crestfallen (sad because of a recent disappointment)
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Foreign word of the day  in Emilian
mustadûra noun the act of treading on grapes
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
desengaño m., noun Realization of the truth, especially after a period of deceit. disappointment; deception
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Foreign word of the day  in Swedish
hen pronoun (neologism) a personal pronoun of unspecified gender; an alternative to hon ("she") or han ("he")
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Foreign word of the day  in Tok Pisin
long preposition Used to mark spatial direct objects that something is oriented in the manner of, where English would use to, toward, into, or onto Used to mark spatial direct objects that something is oriented in the location of, where English would use in, at, on, or near Used to mark indirect objects, or direct objects of intransitive verbs, where English would use to Used to mark spatial direct objects that something is oriented in the manner opposite of, extracted from, or away from, where English would use from or out of
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Foreign word of the day  in Romagnol
bur m., noun darkness (lack of light)
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
adusto adjective (of land) scorched; parched wizened (lean and wrinkled by age or illness)
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Foreign word of the day  in Persian
تازیک • (Tâzik) noun (obsolete) Arab; Arabic (archaic) Persian (as opposed to Turk)
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Foreign word of the day  in Old English
dūstscēawung f., noun viewing or contemplation of dust
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Foreign word of the day  in Serbo-Croatian
krnj • (or крњ) adjective truncated incomplete mutilated defective
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Foreign word of the day  in Persian
نوروز • (Nouruz) proper noun Nowruz, New Year in the Iranian/Zoroastrian calendar, celebrated on the spring equinox.
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Foreign word of the day  in Asturian
entruga f., noun question (sentence, phrase or word which asks for information)
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
gazmoño adjective prudish, sanctimonious
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Foreign word of the day  in Quechua
maywaq noun caresser (one who caresses)
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Foreign word of the day  in Aragonese
cometas f., pl., noun quotation marks (symbols used to denote a quotation in writing: “”, "", «», ‘’ or '')
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Foreign word of the day  in Galician
uz f., noun heather (especially any of several shrub species in the genus Erica)
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
mattonata f., noun A blow with a brick.
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Galician-Portuguese
tẽevras f., pl., noun darkness (lack of light)
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Foreign word of the day  in Northern Kurdish
azadî (or ئازادی (azadî)) f., noun freedom
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
slaapgebrek n., noun sleep deprivation, lack of sleep
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