Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2023/August

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

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Foreign word of the day  in French
quos ego noun (literary) words uttered by a powerful person to assert their authority; plea or threat
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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
tábla noun writing board, chalkboard, whiteboard sign, plaque (board games) gameboard table, chart bar, chocolate bar board in the cover of a hardbound book (in compounds) field of a cereal crop
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
طَرْفَاء • (ṭarfāʔ) noun tamarisk (Tamarix spp.)
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
błam noun sewn fur of a large animal used for lining other fur
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
ตอตะโก • (dtɔɔ-dtà-goo) noun ruins or remains (of something severely burnt) (literally “ebony stump”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Norwegian Bokmål
gatekjøkken noun fast food restaurant (literally, “street kitchen”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
मस्त • (mast) adjective drunk, intoxicated passionate, lustful (colloquial) good, fine, cool carefree, unworried engrossed, occupied, busy
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Foreign word of the day  in Bulgarian
гъду́лка • (gǎdúlka) noun a traditional Bulgarian wooden string instrument, widely used in Bulgarian folk music; it typically has 3 or 4 main strings and is played with a bow
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Foreign word of the day  in Hebrew
עָטַן • (atán, ʕɔṭan) verb to pack olives into a vat
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
chơi xỏ verb to play a nasty or dirty trick on somebody; to play a prank on (somebody)
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
load (lou1) verb (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) to load (a webpage or an application) (Hong Kong Cantonese) to receive mobile data; to connect to the Internet (Hong Kong Cantonese, figuratively) to comprehend; to think about; to ponder; to understand (Hong Kong Cantonese, figuratively, of text or images) to appear; to display
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
afleggersvereniging noun (Suriname) An association of volunteers who ritually wash a corpse and prepare it for burial, in keeping with Afro-Surinamese traditions
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
vampa noun heat, flame (figurative) hot flush (skin sensation) (figurative) burning sentiment
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Foreign word of the day  in Gothic
𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌽𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 • (fauragamanwjan) verb to prepare ahead of time, to make up beforehand to preordain
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Foreign word of the day  in Ye'kwana
adekato noun dream (seen as the journey of the önu ekato (“eye spirit”) outside the body) the önu ekato (“eye spirit”) itself while dreaming
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
трущо́ба • (truščóba) noun (archaic) backwoods, dense forest, jungle (often in the plural) slum (dilapidated neighborhood)
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
ताम्यति • (tā́myati) verb to gasp for breath, to choke, to be suffocated to faint away, to be exhausted, to perish
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Foreign word of the day  in Catalan
banya noun (zoology) horn, antler (zoology) feeler, antenna horn (material) (technology) arcing horn
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
垂れ込める • (tarekomeru) verb (of a cloud, etc.) to drop down and cover a whole area; to hang low to lower the blinds, etc., and shut oneself in one’s home
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Foreign word of the day  in Kashubian
widzec verb (transitive) to see (to perceive with the eyes) (reflexive with sã) to please, to catch the eye (to be physically attractive or pleasing)
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Foreign word of the day  in Esperanto
zulo noun (neologism) cache, hiding place
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Persian
𐎠𐎼𐎭𐎿𐎫𐎠𐎴 (a-r-d-s-t-a-n) noun window frame, windowsill
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Foreign word of the day  in Korean
미성 • (miseong) noun beautiful voice tiny sound (humble) one's own contributions
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