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Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2022/February

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This is the February archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2022.

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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
مسكوكة (maskūka) noun
  1. coin, piece of mintage
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
सरित् (sarít) noun
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2 February is the World Wetlands Day

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Foreign word of the day  in French
juveigneur noun
  1. (largely historical) A younger or youngest son of a nobleman who is given apanage.
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
pasożyt noun
  1. (biology) parasite (organism)
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Foreign word of the day  in Egyptian
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  1. (uncountable) ripe sycamore figs
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
aprico adjective
  1. exposed to the sun
  2. sun-loving
  3. (rare) clear, bright, serene
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
mất verb, particle
  1. (verb) to lose something
  2. (verb, formal, euphemistic) to die
  3. (verb) to take (time)
  4. (particle) used to indicate the absence of something after the action expressed in the verb
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
αὐτόθεν (autóthen) adverb
  1. from that very place
  2. from oneself, of one's own accord
  3. at once, immediately
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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
repül verb
  1. (intransitive) to fly
  2. (intransitive) to be hurled, shot or blown through the air (especially with force or speed)
  3. (intransitive, literary) to speed, to run, to rush
  4. (intransitive, figurative, of time) to fly, to fly by
  5. (intransitive, colloquial) to be kicked out (to be forcefully removed from a position, location, etc.)
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle Korean
님〯 (nǐm) noun, suffix
  1. lord, master
  2. one's love, the beloved
  3. (suffix) honored; esteemed; attached to nouns to show respect
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
en Babia adverb
  1. (colloquial) lost in thought, with one's head in the clouds
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Foreign word of the day  in Basque
jainkoilo noun
  1. (rare, literary) butterfly
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Foreign word of the day  in Swedish
kökkenmödding noun
  1. (archaeology) a kitchen midden; a prehistoric pile of waste
  2. (colloquial, figuratively) any collection of unwanted things
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
咎める (togameru) verb
  1. to find fault, to nitpick, to rebuke, to censure
  2. to feel guilty
  3. to question (suspect)
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
lōrīcātus adjective, noun
  1. (adjective) wearing a lōrīca, harnessed, clad in mail; wearing a coat of mail
  2. (noun) a warrior clad in mail, an armoured knight
  3. (noun, Christianity) a monk penitent who practises mortification of the flesh by wearing a chainmail shirt next to the skin (i.e., without padding)
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World Pangolin Day

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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
ผู้ใหญ่ (pûu-yài) noun
  1. elder
  2. adult
  3. (colloquial) person of high rank, authority, or dignity; superior; commander
  4. (colloquial) village chief
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Foreign word of the day  in Maltese
fergħun noun
  1. an evil or unscrupulous person
  2. a devil
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
巫毒教 (wūdújiào) noun
  1. voodoo (phono-semantic matching after the English word)
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
перено́счик (perenósčik) noun
  1. carrier, transferrer, transporter (a person, creature, or thing that carries something from one place to another)
  2. (epidemiology) vector (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
  3. (dated) informer, intelligencer
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle French
fustet noun
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February 26th is World Pistachio Day. “Fustet” is etymologically identical to “pistachio”.

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Foreign word of the day  in German
Schaulust noun
  1. love for sightseeing
  2. (deprecative) curiosity
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