Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2025/January

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

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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
gillende keukenmeid noun a type of skyrocket firework that produces a loudly shrieking whistle and now often a (very) loud bang someone who is easily scared, screams often or has a loud voice Literally, “screaming kitchen maid”.
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
गगनचुंबी • (gagancumbī) adjective “kissing/touching the sky”: sky-high, skyscraping, extremely tall
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
nhenhenhém interjection, noun (interjection) indicates whining and wailing (noun, Brazil, informal, derogatory) a repetitive and/or annoying speech, especially of complaints; whining, wailing
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
สักขีพยาน • (sàk-kǐi-pá-yaan) noun eyewitness (obsolete) evidence; proof
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
sus noun caper, jump, leap (long, quick jump)
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Foreign word of the day  in Urdu
گُلِستان • (gulistān) noun rose garden, flower garden, garden, flower-bed poetry collection
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
冬瓜豆腐 (dōngguā dòufu / dung1 gwaa1 dau6 fu6) idiom (chiefly Cantonese) unexpected misfortune (literally, “winter melon and tofu”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Kashubian
dzecołapka noun accoucheuse, midwife (literally, “child-catcher”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
cicatero adjective, noun (adjective) miserly, mean, stingy (adjective) punctilious, concerned with worthless small things or details (noun) miser
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Foreign word of the day  in Estonian
vaim noun spirit, soul mind, spirit, psyche (chiefly in the inessive case) imagination, mind's eye person, soul (historical) a corvee labourer at a manor ghost, spirit
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Foreign word of the day  in Greek
αλκυονίδες ημέρες • (alkyonídes iméres) noun halcyon days (warm, sunny periods in winter)
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Foreign word of the day  in Basque
mara-mara ideophone flowing or falling gently but copiously (said of snow, sweat, tears...)
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
طَعَام • (ṭaʕām) noun (countable, uncountable) food prepared meal (verbal noun) feeding (countable, uncountable, formerly Ḥijāz, Al-Andalus, now South Tunisia) wheat (countable, uncountable, Ḥaḍramawt) grain, cereal
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Foreign word of the day  in Irish
daingnigh verb to fortify, to strengthen to fasten to ratify, to confirm
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
cabella noun (Medieval Latin) a duty tax (on imported goods, particularly salt and wine)
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Church Slavonic
градъ • (gradŭ) noun town, city city walls garden, park (meteorology) hail (balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation)
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
मृगतृष्णा • (mṛgatṛṣṇā) noun mirage (literally, “deer's thirst”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Nheengatu
mituú noun, verb (noun) Sunday (noun, archaic) rest (any relief from exertion) (verb, archaic) to rest, to cease (verb, archaic) to mate, to copulate
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Backpfeifengesicht noun (colloquial) a punchable face; a face "in need of a smack"
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
abituro noun (literary) abode, dwelling (literary) hovel
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Irish
sál noun salt water, brine, seawater (poetic, by extension) sea, ocean heel
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Foreign word of the day  in Gothic
𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌿𐍂 • (stiur) noun male calf, young bull
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
πτερόω • (pteróō) verb to feather, to wing; to furnish or depict with feathers, wings (figurative) to spread oars like wings (figurative) to excite
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Foreign word of the day  in Silesian
abszlag noun denial, refusal (mining) output (amount mined) (finance) advance, down payment discount, rebate (reduction in price) (photography) print (photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative) trim, decoration, finish
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