Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2023/April

This is the April archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2023.

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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
ज़रूर • (zarūr) adverb, interjection (adverb) certainly, surely (interjection) definitely; of course!
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
mustasukkainen adjective jealous (possessive, protective, suspecting rivalry in love) (literally) black-socked, wearing black socks
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
chumbo noun (chemical element) lead (chemical element) lead metal shot, pellet (Portugal, education, colloquial) fail (Portugal, colloquial) rejection
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Foreign word of the day  in Hebrew
כַּרְפַּס • (karpás) noun celery (Biblical, rare) a type of expensive fabric made of cotton
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
фата́ • (fatá) noun bridal veil (obsolete) any translucent light fabric of untwisted threads of silk or paper or both
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Foreign word of the day  in Yoruba
àfòpiná noun moth (literally, “one who flies and kills (turns off) the light”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Korean
웅크리다 • (ungkeurida) verb (transitive) to crouch; to cause to crouch (a body part) (intransitive, figurative, of emotions, etc.) to exist in a suppressed or hidden state
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Foreign word of the day  in Swedish
påskmust noun a dark carbonated soft drink containing hop and malt extract, drunk during Easter
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
cōticula noun a touchstone a small stone mortar for medical use (literally, “little whetstone, little grindstone”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Kashubian
òrzesznica noun squirrel (rodent of the family Sciuridae)
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
غَافِث / غَافَث • (ḡāfiṯ / ḡāfaṯ) noun agrimony (Agrimonia gen. et spp.), especially the common agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria)
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Foreign word of the day  in Catalan
vaiverejar verb (intransitive) to go back and forth, to wander, to pace side-to-side, etc.
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Foreign word of the day  in Bengali
নববর্ষ • (nôbôbôrśô) noun new year the start of a year first day of the year
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
สังฆกรรม • (sǎng-ká-gam) noun (Buddhism) activity carried out within a holy area by a quorum of at least four priests, such as incantation or ordination (slang) part; participation; involvement
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Foreign word of the day  in Ukrainian
пи́санка • (pýsanka) noun Easter egg, usually a painted and/or decorated one (figurative) beautiful, nice thing (figurative) pretty girl or woman
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Gassenhauer noun (literally, possibly, obsolete) somebody who walks (about) on alleys (possibly, obsolete) a song sung on alleys (colloquial, derogatory, dated) popular tune, ditty
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Foreign word of the day  in French
arrêter verb (ambitransitive) to halt; to stop (archaic) to settle; to conclude; to agree (upon) (transitive) to arrest (a criminal, etc) (reflexive) to come to a stop (Louisiana French, Cajun French) to wait
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
lưới B40 noun (colloquial) chainlink fencing (literally, “RPG-2 net”, referring to the rocket-propelled grenade)
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Irish
arrae noun payment, exchange, barter commutation of a penance
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
σύννᾱος • (súnnāos) adjective honored in the same temple; sharing a temple with another deity (figuratively, in the dative) connected to something else
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
panatela noun long thin biscuit long thin cigar
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
melkboerenhondenhaar noun (derogatory) damaged and light, often yellowish, outgrowths of hair
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
龍鳳胎 / 龙凤胎 (lóngfèngtāi) noun boy-girl twins (literally, “boy-and-girl litter, dragon-and-phoenix litter”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
oblioso adjective oblivious, forgetful (by extension) indifferent inducing contemplation or detachment from reality; oblivial
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
उत्स • (útsa) noun a spring, fountain, water-source (metaphorically) a cloud
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
憚る • (habakaru) verb to hesitate, to be afraid to do to throw one's weight around, to make one's presence felt
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