Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2024/December

This is the December archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2024.

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Foreign word of the day in Persian
اقدس • (aqdas) adjective (only in fixed expressions) holy, holiest (historical) Used as an honorific adjective for monarchs.
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Foreign word of the day in Swahili
kwa shingo upande adverb (idiomatic) reluctantly (literally, “with the neck aside”)
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Foreign word of the day in Polish
namięta noun (Middle Polish) intense feeling
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Foreign word of the day in Middle English
yelpinge noun self-aggrandisement, making boasts
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Foreign word of the day in Arabic
حَزَاء • (ḥazāʔ) noun (rare, in post-classical Arabic only Bedouin Arabic) common rue (Ruta graveolens)
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Foreign word of the day in Spanish
a ultranza adverb (idiomatic) to the extreme; to the utmost
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Foreign word of the day in Tagalog
siyokoy noun (folklore) siyokoy; merman (especially the Philippine version) (linguistics) siyokoy, a pseudo-loan or hybrid word seemingly derived from both English and Spanish; a pseudo-Hispanism
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Foreign word of the day in Estonian
pühapäevakool noun (religion) Sunday school (a school, usually operating on Sundays, providing children with religious education) a school that teaches children of ethnic minorities in Estonia their language, customs and culture (historical) a school in the Russian Empire where adults were taught to read
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Foreign word of the day in Thai
ขานขันหมาก • (kǎan-kǎn-màak) verb (idiomatic and archaic) to announce the name, rank, title, and/or position of a public officer who arrives at an audience with a monarch (literally, “to call out the paan bowl used as an emblem of a noble person”)
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Foreign word of the day in Romanian
face ca trenul verb (idiomatic, colloquial) to go ballistic, to blow a fuse (to lose one’s temper) (literally, “to make [noises] like a train”)
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Foreign word of the day in Old Irish
cummae noun, adjective, adverb (noun) cutting, butchering, maiming (noun) shape, form, appearance (adjective) similar, alike (with fri or ocus) (adverb) equally, in the same way
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Foreign word of the day in Urdu
بَھگْدَڑ • (bhagdaṛ) noun stampede pedestrian traffic panic, alarm
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Foreign word of the day in Finnish
kelirikko (literally, "breakage in the weather on the ground") noun mud season road damage caused by a mud season
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Foreign word of the day in Vietnamese
lưu cầu noun (obsolete) jade-inlaid sword (literally, “Ryukyu”)
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Foreign word of the day in Esperanto
melono noun, proper noun (noun) melon (proper noun, humorous, slang) the Esperanto jubilee symbol, consisting of a Latin E and Cyrillic Э
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Foreign word of the day in Silesian
bednŏrka noun slat of a barrel or other wooden object cooperage (art or trade of a cooper) cooper's wife (archaic, chiefly in the plural) ski made of barrel stave
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Foreign word of the day in Pela
tu³¹ ŋɛ̠̃³⁵ noun (dated) chopsticks
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Foreign word of the day in Punjabi
رَولا • (raulā / rauḷā) noun noise, uproar quarrel problem
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Foreign word of the day in Fala
galu de campu noun hoopoe (especially the Eurasian hoopoe) (literally, “wild rooster”)
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