Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2025/February

This is the February archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2025.

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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
年初四噉嘅樣 / 年初四噉嘅样 (nin4 co1 sei3 gam2 ge3 joeng6-2) noun (Hong Kong Cantonese, humorous) long face
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
klassieker noun a classic (person or thing) (sports, originally cycling) a sports classic, a traditional match (Netherlands, soccer) a match between the football clubs Ajax and Feyenoord
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
मुखसुख • (mukhsukh) noun ease of pronunciation, economy of effort in pronunciation (literally, “mouth's comfort”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
amarcord noun nostalgic memory, remembrance
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Foreign word of the day  in Swahili
-menyeka verb to be peeled, to be stripped (of skin, peel, etc.) to toil
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Foreign word of the day  in Kashubian
akselband noun (military) aiguillette
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Foreign word of the day  in Luganda
amasannyalaze noun numbness, paralysis electric shock (by extension) electricity
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
โรงงานนรก • (roong-ngaan-ná-rók) noun sweatshop (literally “hell factory”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
pictopueblo noun (Spain) a town that displays pictograms at the entrance of buildings, businesses, and monuments
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Foreign word of the day  in Sabaean
𐩪𐩨𐩺 (s¹by /šabaya/) verb to take captive, to captivate 𐩪𐩨𐩺 (s¹by /šabyum/) noun taking captive captives
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
motoun noun the meat of sheep or a piece of it; mutton a sheep (of either gender) or its corpse an Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb (rare) the astrological sign Aries
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Foreign word of the day  in Urdu
تِتْلی • (titlī) noun butterfly (figurative) elegantly-dressed woman common rue (Ruta graveolens)
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
thuận vợ thuận chồng, tát Biển Đông cũng cạn proverb a harmonious married couple can achieve pretty much anything literally, “if husband and wife are in harmony, they can bail all the water out of the South China Sea”
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Foreign word of the day  in Pela
tsɛ̃⁵⁵ noun, verb (noun) bridge (over a river) (noun) roundworm (verb) to get drained
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
ῥῡμός • (rhūmós) noun pole of a chariot or car log or block of wood for fuel (astronomy) trail of a shooting star
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
odara adjective (invariable, Brazil, informal) generally good, positive
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
ночле́жник • (nočléžnik) noun overnighter (one who stays overnight) one who stays overnight in a doss-house
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Foreign word of the day  in Persian
افسر • (afsar) noun (archaic) crown, diadem (military, Iran) officer
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Siebensachen noun luggage; tools (items carried around e.g. when travelling) (deprecative) stuff (deprecative) belongings
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
praesaepe noun enclosure, pen, fold (by extension) hut, dwelling crib
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Foreign word of the day  in Betawi
yukènsi adjective sleeveless (of clothing)
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
tata z mamą noun (idiomatic, colloquial) hard liquor, typically vodka, mixed with either juice or syrup
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Foreign word of the day  in Gothic
𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿 • (faihu) noun property, possessions wealth, riches money
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
أَكَّار • (ʔakkār) noun (obsolete) farmer, tiller, cultivator of land
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Irish
anaid verb to stay, to remain to wait to resist, to withstand to cease, to stop
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