Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2018/April

This is the April archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2018.

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Foreign word of the day  in French
poisson d’avril m, noun April fool (an April Fool's Day joke; literally "April fish")
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Foreign word of the day  in Breton
startijenn noun strength, energy, dynamism, drive
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
चकाचौंध • (cakācaundh) f, noun a dazzling sight, magnificent spectacle
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
ser de casa verb (Brazil, of a person) to be intimate enough that they can come to one’s house (or even go in or use things) without asking in advance
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
cabalgar verb to mount or ride an animal, especially a horse
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Foreign word of the day  in Gothic
𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌼𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌽𐌰 • (maimbrana) m, noun parchment
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
溫馨 (wēnxīn) adjective (of an environment) warm and fragrant warm, loving and caring; friendly; cozy and comfortable; pleasant and sweet
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
Joost mag het weten phrase I don't know, who knows (literally, "the Devil may know it")
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Foreign word of the day  in Mycenaean Greek
𐀶𐀏𐀳 (tu-ka-te /tʰugatēr/) f, noun daughter
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Foreign word of the day  in Chichewa
sadáka class 9, noun alms, something given freely a memorial meal held on the anniversary of a death
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
紅葉 • (momiji) noun the color-changing (in this case, the reddening) of leaves in autumn; also, the autumn leaves themselves
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Bulimielernen n, noun (pejorative) the practice of cramming information to "regurgitate" it during a test without retaining any of it
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Foreign word of the day  in Coptic
ⲟⲩⲣⲟ • (ouro) m, noun (Bohairic) king (Bohairic) The title of a king, pharaoh, or Roman emperor.
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Foreign word of the day  in Turkish
yakamoz noun phosphorescence in the sea due to bioluminescence the reflection of light on water
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Foreign word of the day  in Irish
mar ea phrase used to express skepticism or doubt about the accuracy or veracity of a claim
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Foreign word of the day  in Classical Nahuatl
tlemōyōnextli noun A dead or extinguished spark.
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
тяну́ть • (tjanútʹ) verb to pull, draw, haul, drag to drawl, drag out (speak slowly) to drag out, delay, protract, procrastinate to make someone go, force to go to squeeze, extort (impersonal) to be drawn to, long for, miss (impersonal) to feel an urge to
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Novgorodian
сьбро • (sĭbro) n, noun silver
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
पार्थिव • (pā́rthiva) adjective earthly, earthen; of the earth
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
zibaldone m, noun a confusing mixture of diverse things or people; a hodgepodge a book containing writings collected in a scattered fashion a collection of loosely connected thoughts
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Foreign word of the day  in Alemannic German
hübscheli adverb softly, gently, carefully
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
Việt ngữ noun (dated or Overseas Vietnamese, formal) Vietnamese (language)
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Foreign word of the day  in Norwegian Bokmål
hykle verb to practice hypocrisy, be a hypocrite
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
onocentaurus m, noun onocentaur (a centaur with the body of an ass) (transferred sense) used of an impure person
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Foreign word of the day  in Czech
švejkovat verb to protest against an absurd command or obligation by means of even more absurdly punctilious and zealous performance; to act like the character Švejk
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