Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2020/November

This is the November archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2020.

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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
بَزّ • (bazz) noun (regional) garment, raiment, weed
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle Armenian
պոպոկ • (popok) noun green husk on unripe walnut
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
袋鼠 (dàishǔ) noun kangaroo (literally, “pouch rat/mouse”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Swedish
tvättbjörn noun raccoon (literally, “washing bear”)
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Foreign word of the day  in French
faux-bourdon noun drone (bee) (literally, “false bumblebee”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Indonesian
kuda nil noun hippopotamus (literally, “Nile horse”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
wieloryb noun whale (large sea mammal) (etymologically, “great fish”; but in modern usage literally “many fish”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
papegaaiduiker noun puffin (literally, “parrot diver”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
comigo-ninguém-pode noun dumbcane (Dieffenbachia seguine, a poisonous plant commonly grown as an ornamental) (literally, “no one can handle me”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Bashkir
ат • (at) noun horse (chess) knight (rare) (a person's) name reputation, repute
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
κρᾰ́τος • (krátos) noun might, strength act of strength, act of valour (in plural) acts of violence dominion, power
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Foreign word of the day  in Korean
바람 • (baram) noun wind, air, draft fad; vogue fickleness adultery; infidelity desire, expectation, hope (obsolete) wall, enclosure, surrounding
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Foreign word of the day  in Danish
medtrafikant noun fellow road user; fellow person engaging in traffic
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Foreign word of the day  in Serbo-Croatian
slútiti / слу́тити verb (transitive, intransitive) to suspect, have an inkling of (transitive, intransitive) to bode
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
ยาแรง • (yaa-rɛɛng)) noun (slang) serious measure; decisive measure (literally, “strong drug”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
वृश्चिक • (vṛ́ścika) noun scorpion (astrology, zodiac constellations) the zodiacal sign Scorpio centipede (plant) name of various plants
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Foreign word of the day  in Hausa
cālī noun mesh bag (figuratively) A person full of excuses.
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
marraskuu noun November (literally, “death month”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
bị noun, verb (noun) big sack made from a sedge (noun, chiefly southern Vietnam) plastic bag (verb) particle denoting the subject is negatively affected by the predicate (verb) to be (used to form the passive voice if the subject is negatively affected by the action)
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
lucumonia noun (historical) The rank or title of a lucumo (Etruscan ruler); a region ruled by a lucumo
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
अवयव • (avyav) noun element, component organ, limb
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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
rut interjection gobble (representation of the sound of a turkey; can be used repetitively)
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Augenweide noun (dated) feast for the eyes, eye candy
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Foreign word of the day  in Greek
θερμοκοιτίδα • (thermokoitída) noun isolette, infant incubator
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
пасти́ • (pastí) verb to graze, to pasture, to shepherd (slang) to follow, to tail
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
下手上手 • (hetauma) noun, adjective (noun) good badness, something that seems simultaneously poorly done and well done (noun) relative skill level, high and low skill (adjective) bad yet good, so bad it's good, simultaneously poorly done and well done
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