Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2018/July

This is the July archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2018.

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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
秋風掃落葉 / 秋风扫落叶 (qiūfēng sǎo luòyè) idiom (figuratively) to take by storm; to blow away (in a competition); to blow out of the water
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Foreign word of the day  in Alemannic German
Tröchni f, noun dryness distant, aloof person
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Foreign word of the day  in Chichewa
-ŵeruka verb get off from work, go home after finishing one's job
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Foreign word of the day  in Esperanto
Usono proper noun The United States of America.
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Foreign word of the day  in Hebrew
הוֹצִיא • (hotsí) verb to take or bring out
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
chupinazo m, noun A rocket used to mark the start of a party or other event, especially the San Fermín party in Pamplona.
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
रथ • (rátha) m, noun chariot, car warrior, hero, champion
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
κηφήν • (kēphḗn) m, noun a drone (male bee) a lazy vagabond a literary plagiarist a worn-out, decrepit person
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
носи́тель языка́ • (nosítelʹ jazyká) m anim, noun native speaker (literally, "Language carrier")
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
Phây proper noun (neologism, colloquial, slang) Facebook
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Foreign word of the day  in Azerbaijani
atmaq verb to throw to quit doing something to shoot to abandon, to ditch (colloquial) to fool, swindle, defraud to pass the buck
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
tio do pavê m, noun (Brazil, colloquial) an uncle (loosely, any middle-aged man) who tells corny jokes or otherwise thinks that he is funnier than he really is
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
จินตนาการ • (jin-dtà-naa-gaan) verb to imagine, to fancy, to think, to believe, to suppose, to assume
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Foreign word of the day  in French
l’Hexagone m, proper noun mainland of France
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
caeliscalpium n, noun (New Latin) skyscraper
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
عَطَن • (ʿaṭan) m, noun place where camels rest after having quenched their thirst
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Foreign word of the day  in German
arglos adjective harmless, trustworthy, innocent, unsuspecting, artless
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Novgorodian
кѣле (kěle) adjective whole, intact
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Foreign word of the day  in Pitjantjatjara
kuḻaṯa noun hunting spear spearbush (a plant)
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
löyly noun the steam that rises from the sauna stove or the heat of the sauna (in the plural) act of taking a bath in the sauna (figuratively) heat, pressure, intensity
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
दिग्गज • (diggaj) m, noun and adjective one of the mythological elephants that support the weight of the Earth (figuratively) a legendary person, someone who is larger than life colossal, giant, great, legendary, larger than life
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
duizendpoot m, noun centipede person of many talents, especially multi-tasking; jack of all trades
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Spanish
malanconia f, noun melancholy, black bile
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Foreign word of the day  in Burmese
မြီးရှေ • (mri:hre) noun rice noodles prepared with bean sprouts, meat, pickled mustard plant and dressing
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Foreign word of the day  in Greek
μισαλλοδοξία • (misallodoxía) f, noun bigotry
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
竜馬 • (ryūme) noun (idiomatic) an excellent horse, a very fast horse (literally, "dragon horse") in the game of shogi, a promoted bishop
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Foreign word of the day  in Serbo-Croatian
plàdanj / пла̀дањ m, noun dish, plate tray
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Foreign word of the day  in Galician
esquipar verb (archaic) to equip or outfit a ship
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Foreign word of the day  in Classical Nahuatl
meyōllohtli noun The core of a young agave plant.
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
rinascimento m, noun renaissance, revival
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