Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2017/October

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

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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
canuto adjective (of hair) grey, hoary, white (figuratively, poetic) old, serious, staid (by extension, literary) covered in white, snowy, foamy
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
กล้วย ๆ • (glûai-glûai) adjective (idiomatic, colloquial) simple, easy, effortless (literally, "banana-banana")
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Foreign word of the day  in Esperanto
sputniko noun An artificial satellite.
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
麗質 / 丽质 (lìzhì) noun lovely comportment (of a woman), pleasant disposition
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
desconversar verb to change the subject, especially to avoid an uncomfortable topic
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
मेल • (mel) m, noun union, joining, coming together concord, agreement mixture
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
ἀγαπάω • (agapáō) verb (transitive) to treat with affection, be fond of, love (transitive, intransitive) be pleased with, take pleasure in, like (New Testament, transitive) to show brotherly love to
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
calamiteitenzender m, noun (Netherlands) a public television channel that will broadcast in case of a disaster
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Foreign word of the day  in Hausa
lōgā̀ f, noun a careful investigation or inquiry
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
convolvulus m, noun the caterpillar of the vine moth Rutland beauty (a species of bindweed) (Medieval Latin) colic (severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains)
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Foreign word of the day  in German
der Leibhaftige m, noun (euphemistic) the Devil (literally, "the incarnate")
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Foreign word of the day  in Classical Nahuatl
occalli noun a place where pulque is made or stored (colonial) a place where wine is made or stored; a wine cellar or winery
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Foreign word of the day  in Hebrew
קָטֹן • (katón) verb to be or become small to be unworthy
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Foreign word of the day  in Czech
tvarůžky m, noun Olomouc cheese, a kind of ripened soft cheese with a strong scent, pungent taste, and yellowish color.
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
होतृ • (hótṛ) m, noun an offerer of an oblation, a sacrificer
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle High German
sælic adjective happy, joyful blessed, blissful
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Foreign word of the day  in Serbo-Croatian
jézgra / је́згра f, noun core, nucleus kernel, pit, stone essence, heart
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Foreign word of the day  in Akan
adinkra noun adinkra cloth (cloth decorated with visual symbols representing concepts or aphorisms)
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Foreign word of the day  in Greek
φαλάκρα • (falákra) f, noun baldness bald patch, bald pate
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Foreign word of the day  in Norwegian Bokmål
viskelær n, noun eraser (US), rubber (UK)
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Foreign word of the day  in Burmese
ဆရာတော် • (hca.ratau) noun abbot (of a Buddhist monastery)
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Foreign word of the day  in Ido
mondolinguala adjective Pertaining to a world language.
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Foreign word of the day  in French
pétrin m, noun kneading trough (figuratively, colloquial) a pickle, a mess, a scrape, the soup
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
قَامُوسْ • (qāmūs) m, noun ocean dictionary, lexicon
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
pitufeo m, noun (finance) smurfing (the practice of making financial transactions in a specific pattern to avoid scrutiny)
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
nysse noun (colloquial) bus, particularly one that is part of the public transport system of Tampere, Finland
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle Low German
ēteninne f, noun witch female devil or monster (pejorative) hag
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