Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2017/July

This is the July archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2017.

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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
碧眼童顏 (bìyǎntóngyán) idiom Describes a person who is old, but still has a youthful face.
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Foreign word of the day  in Welsh
plant m, noun children, young people children, offspring, progeny followers, disciples, servants
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
มัน • (man) pronoun A third-person pronoun used to refer to an animal. (often deemed informal) A third-person pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object. (sometimes offensive) A third-person pronoun used to refer to a person of lower status. (derogatory, offensive) A third-person pronoun used to refer to any person.
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
χορηγός • (khorēgós) m, noun A chorus leader in a play. Generally, the leader of a train or band.
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Foreign word of the day  in Burmese
လိပ်ပြာ • (lippra) noun butterfly incorporeal or animate part of a human being; consciousness, spirit
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
kleinkinderwens m, noun the wish or desire to have grandchildren
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
戦く • (ononoku) verb to tremble in fear to shiver in cold to shake in anticipation
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Foreign word of the day  in German
verschlimmbessern verb (colloquial) to make something worse in an honest but failed attempt to improve it
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Foreign word of the day  in Old English
hancrēd m, noun the period of the early morning when roosters begin to crow
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
दीवाना • (dīvānā) m, adjective and noun crazy, insane, mad lover madman, crazy person
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
pocotón m, noun (Venezuela, Colombia, slang) A large amount of something.
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Foreign word of the day  in Luxembourgish
hannerwands adverb in a safe place; sheltered
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
кове́ркать • (kovérkatʹ) verb (colloquial) to mispronounce words and sounds (colloquial, familiar) to break, to destroy (colloquial) to distort another's words
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
aliēnō verb I change the nature of a person or thing into something else. I make something the property of another. I make foreign, remove, separate. I cast off, estrange, make enemies.
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
cenerentola f, noun A girl who is mistreated and made to perform humble tasks; a Cinderella. (by extension, feminine only) The last or most neglected member of a group. (feminine only) A ballet shoe.
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Foreign word of the day  in Armenian
մոտավորություն • (motavorutʿyun) noun approximation, closeness, nearness
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
Bụt proper noun A wise and kind old man, usually depicted with a white beard and clothes, who often appears when a main character in a folkloric tale is crying aloud for help.
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Foreign word of the day  in Icelandic
frekur adjective aggressively assertive or demanding; pushy (of animals) difficult to handle, wild taking up too much space (of a quantity of time or space) too much, overly long (of a quantity of time or space) slightly more than; over (in comparative) more, further
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Foreign word of the day  in Gothic
𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌹 • (bairgahei) f, noun hill country, highland, mountainous region
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Foreign word of the day  in Akan
nkran noun a kind of ant that can sting severely; fire ant
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Foreign word of the day  in Coptic
ϩⲟⲟⲩⲧ • (hoout) adjective and noun (Sahidic) man, male (Sahidic) man, husband (Sahidic) male (Sahidic) wild
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Foreign word of the day  in Greek
ροσόλι • (rosóli) n, noun rose-flavoured liqueur
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