Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2023/May

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

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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
jeśli nie potrafisz, nie pchaj się na afisz phrase don't take on work or tasks you cannot handle
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Foreign word of the day  in Bengali
দাবদাহ • (dabdaho) noun forest fire (or its heat) (by extension) heatwave
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
teli noun floe, ice raft boulder of ice frozen block of earth (railroading, road transport, aviation) bogie
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
poner de relieve verb (transitive) to highlight (transitive) to put​/​throw something into (sharp​/​stark) relief
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
鐵馬 / 铁马 (tiěmǎ) noun (literary) armoured warhorse (literary, figurative) valiant cavalry (literary) metal chimes hanging from eaves (chiefly Taiwan, Malaysia, dated in Xiamen, Quanzhou) bicycle (chiefly Cantonese) mills barrier; crowd control barrier (Hong Kong) police motorbike
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
धूम्रपान • (dhūmrapān) noun smoking (literally “smoke-drinking”)
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Maulheld noun (pejorative, informal) bragger, loudmouth
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
รวมหัว • (ruuam-hǔua) verb to act or work together (usually for something bad)
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Foreign word of the day  in Azerbaijani
öndər noun (poetic, high-style) leader
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Foreign word of the day  in French
râtelier noun hayrack; rack (for tools etc.) (colloquial) false teeth, dentures
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
στέφω • (stéphō) verb to put around to encircle, to crown, to wreath, to garland to honour with libations
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Foreign word of the day  in Gothic
𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌿𐌽𐍃 • (urruns) noun rise (of a celestial body: to appear to move from behind the horizon) (particularly of the Sun) (by extension, uncountable) the east (compass point) toilet, latrine (fixture used for urination and defecation) (hapax legomenon) departure (death)
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
cuống noun, adjective (noun) petiole (noun) cord connecting organs or tissue (adjective) clumsy due to haste, panic, or other great emotion
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Foreign word of the day  in Irish
dílis adjective dear, fond loyal, faithful, trusty friendly, reliable, sincere secure, firm darling, beloved (one's) own special
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Foreign word of the day  in Persian
شاهد • (šâhed) noun, adjective (noun) witness; eyewitness; testifier (noun) example; exemplary quotation (noun, archaic) beauty; beautiful person; the beloved (so beautiful that their physical beauty illuminates or "testifies" to the beauty of God) (adjective, obsolete) beautiful, pleasant
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
verpretparkiseren verb (ergative, figurative, derogatory) to turn into an amusement park
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Foreign word of the day  in Sudanese Arabic
دردق • (dardag) verb (transitive) to trundle, to roll
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
reciprocicornis adjective (hapax legomenon) with horns curved backwards
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
жу́пел • (žúpel) noun (Biblical) brimstone (figurative) bogeyman, bête noire (something frightening or unpleasant, or something used to frighten)
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
gallinaccio noun chanterelle (mushroom) turkey
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Foreign word of the day  in Ukrainian
строкови́к • (strokovýk) noun (obsolete) fixed-term labourer, hired labourer (military) conscript, fixed-term conscript
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
弾ける • (hajikeru) verb (of a container) to burst; to break from internal pressure (often figurative) to disperse/scatter with a burst to have fun; to party to go public; to be revealed
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
bigode noun moustache (usually in the plural) whisker (long projecting hair at the sides of the mouth of a cat)
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
طَابُور • (ṭābūr) noun line, row, file, queue, column
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Foreign word of the day  in Korean
넌지시 • (neonjisi) adverb (of speech, of a look, etc.) discreetly, implicitly
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
अनुप्रास • (anuprāsa) noun (prosody) alliteration
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