Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2024/July

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

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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
जिजीविषा • (jijīviṣā) noun life instinct; will or desire to live
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
almirez noun large mortar (hollow vessel used along with a pestle)
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Foreign word of the day  in Ingrian
unilintu noun butterfly (literally, “dream bird”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
bánh đậu xanh noun mung bean cake, a specialty of Hải Dương province
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Affentheater noun (colloquial, derogatory) charade
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Foreign word of the day  in Estonian
tint noun smelt (a small, slender freshwater fish with a dark back and silvery sides and belly; Osmerus) ink (an aqueous dye solution used for writing (with a quill), printing etc.) ink (a dark fluid ejected by some marine animals such as cuttlefish or squid)
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Foreign word of the day  in Kashubian
spòsób noun way; manner; means; how (method or manner of doing something) inheritance, legacy, bequest means, possibility (fishing) prediction; good omen dowry occasion, opportunity
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
دَغْفَل • (daḡfal) noun the young of an elephant
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Foreign word of the day  in Basque
bestengusu noun (rare) male second cousin
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
intimare verb to order in a peremptory or imperious way (literary, law) to formally notify in the name of authority (Christianity) to impose (fasting, penance, etc.)
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Foreign word of the day  in Indonesian
layung noun the reddish yellow glow of the sky as the sun sets; afterglow
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
шлю́пка • (šljúpka) noun (a ship's) boat, yawl, lifeboat
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ • (skiāmakhíā) noun a fighting against a shadow: esp. a form of exercise with hands and feet (figurative) fighting with a shadow, mock fight, beating the air
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
ป้ายแดง • (bpâai-dɛɛng) adjective (slang) brand new; spanking new (literally “red plate”, in reference to the red licence plates of new, unregistered cars in Thailand)
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Foreign word of the day  in Welsh
cnwc noun knock, hit, blow, strike an elevation of land, hillock, knoll, mound lump, protuberance (in or on a person’s body) swelling, hump, abscess, tumour (in the wood of a tree) knob, knot (crystallography) summit (each of the two vertices of a rhombohedral crystal having equangular faces)
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Foreign word of the day  in Fala
madurafigus noun (Valverdeñu) golden oriole (literally, “fig-ripener”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Tupi
py'a noun liver stomach (figuratively) heart (source of one's feelings and emotions) (figuratively) mind; brains (source of one's thoughts and awareness) (figuratively) core; bowels (deepest or innermost part)
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
tīrōcinium noun apprenticeship, tyrociny first military service, first campaign, recruitment (by extension) military inexperience (metonymically) new recruits, raw forces (collectively) (figuratively) first attempt (at anything)
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
wight noun a creature, a being a person, a human being a demon, monster a small amount (of a quantity, length, distance or time); a whit
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
खड्ग • (khaḍga) noun a sword a large sacrificial knife a rhinoceros or its horn
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
tykittää verb to bombard with cannons (colloquial) to shoot, to shoot up (to inject drugs intravenously) (figuratively, colloquial) to attack verbally, especially sharply and with overwhelming arguments (figuratively, colloquial) to play fast and aggressive music (figuratively, colloquial) to move rapidly, particularly by a motor vehicle (figuratively, colloquial, ball games) to shoot repeatedly
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
kauzyperda noun (derogatory, law) inferior or incompetent lawyer (literally, “case-loser”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Urdu
ہَاتھ میں صَفَائی ہونا • (hāth mẽ safāī honā) verb to have sleight of hand; (to have craftsmanship or skill in one's occupation or line of work)
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
windhandel noun (derogatory) speculative trade (literally, “trade in wind”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
蝦眼水 / 虾眼水 (xiāyǎnshuǐ / haa1 ngaan5 seoi2) noun (chiefly Cantonese) water that is boiled to right below boiling point, when small bubbles are formed at the bottom of the pot (literally, “shrimp-eye water”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
cábula noun (Portugal) cheat sheet (notes used to assist on a test) somebody who is cunning or deceitful (Brazil, informal) bad luck
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Foreign word of the day  in Seri
xaasj noun elephant cactus, Pachycereus pringlei (archaic) a kind of whale
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Foreign word of the day  in Irish
foraois noun forest, timber retreat, recess; lair, den
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