Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2022/May

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

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Foreign word of the day  in Hebrew
עֲבוֹדָה • (avodá) noun worship, service work, job, labor (physics) work
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
रंहस् • (raṃhas) noun, proper noun, adjective (noun) celerity, quickness, speed, swiftness (noun) eagerness, impetuosity, vehemence (proper noun) an epithet of Shiva (adjective, in compounds) speeded; having the speed
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Foreign word of the day  in Catalan
lletraferit adjective, noun (adjective) fond of literature, well-read, bookish (noun) book lover, bookworm (literally, “letter-smitten”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
帰羅 • (kira) noun (dated) return to Los Angeles
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
yskös noun sputum (matter coughed up) hiccup (minor setback)
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
walkirie noun (rare) A female user of magic.
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Foreign word of the day  in Hausa
ɓākutu noun A neckless clay pot. A nickname for a child with big buttocks.
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
ānxius adjective anxious, troubled, uneasy unshorn
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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
csúfnév noun an unflattering nickname based on a conspicuous characteristic or a humorous event that happened to that person
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Foreign word of the day  in Bengali
মুখপাত্র • (mukhôpatrô) noun a spokesman
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
εὐώνυμος • (euṓnumos) adjective, noun of good name, honored having an auspicious name; fortunate, prosperous (euphemistic) on the left side (euphemistic) ominous, ill-boding (astronomy) southern, southerly (noun) spindle tree (Euonymus europaeus)
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
amikoszoneria noun (dated, rare) overfriendliness
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
parafiato noun (neologism) plexiglass set up, especially in stores and other places of business, to protect people from the spread (by droplets) of a pathogen
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
anderhalvemetersamenleving noun A society wherein the citizens are able to keep a distance of one and a half metres from each other, for the sake of social distancing.
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
援鄂 (yuán'è) verb (neologism, chiefly attributive) to aid (in the fight against COVID-19) in Hubei province
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Foreign word of the day  in French
coronapiste noun (neologism) A temporary bicycle path created to decongest urban areas during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Foreign word of the day  in Norwegian Bokmål
søringkarantene noun (humorous) quarantine of people (coming) from the South of Norway
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
infectódromo noun (Spain) A place with crowds where many people get infected with a disease.
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Coronasünder noun Someone who infringes the regulations in relation to COVID-19.
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
कच्छेष्ट • (kaccheṣṭa) noun tortoise (literally, “dear to the shore”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
tagarela adjective, noun (adjective) blabbermouthed; talkative; excessively chatty (noun) chatterbox; blabbermouth (someone who talks or gossips excessively)
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Foreign word of the day  in Yoruba
dòdò ideophone, noun (ideophone, of an object) being deeply or richly red (noun) fried plantain
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle Korean
바오달〮 (pà(G)wòtál) noun an encampment, such as for a military host or for the royal entourage
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
хамса́ • (xamsá) noun European anchovy, Azov anchovy (small saltwater fish)
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
siêu xuyệt adjective (of an address) Having a house number with exceptionally many slashes.
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