Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2020/January

This is the January archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2020.

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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
चलना • (calnā) verb to go, to move: to walk, stroll (often with पैदल (paidal, “on foot”)) to come to turn (a wheel) to blow, moan (the wind) to function, work (a machine) to progress, advance; to move along to continue, carry on to leave, depart
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
wentelwiek noun, f (uncommon) A helicopter. (rare, nonstandard) The rotor of a helicopter or a similar aircraft; the blade of a mill.
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Foreign word of the day  in Esperanto
samseksama adjective same-sex-loving; homosexual; homoromantic
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
หัวโขน • (hǔua-kǒon) noun (figurative) role, function; position, office. (literally) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see หัว (hǔua),‎ โขน (kǒon).
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Foreign word of the day  in Armenian
ճիտք • (čitkʿ) noun cuff (of a sock) boot top, bootleg
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Foreign word of the day  in Danish
snobbe nedad verb (derogatory) to pander to the lowest common denominator; to appeal to lowbrow tastes
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
皇親國戚 (huángqīnguóqī) noun member of royalty or royal household; royal person person having powerful connections
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Foreign word of the day  in Swahili
barabara adjective, adverb proper, correct, exactly right exactly, precisely
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Foreign word of the day  in Persian
نرگس شهلا • (narges-e šahlâ) noun a reddish-blue narcissus (metonymically, poetic) the eye(s) of a mistress
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Foreign word of the day  in Hebrew
אנוכי • (anokhí) pronoun, adjective, adverb (archaic or formal) I (first-person singular nominative pronoun) selfish, egotistical selfishly
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
coice noun a kick from a quadruped such as a horse, donkey or camel a strong kick with the sole or back of the foot (firearms) recoil (pushback from a fired firearm) (figurative) a curt, rude response; a snap
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
slaoliestijl m, noun (Netherlands, chiefly derogatory) art nouveau
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Foreign word of the day  in French
tue-l’amour noun, adjective (informal) a turn-off, a passion killer, a boner-killer, a mood-killer (informal) off-putting
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle High German
nebelvinster adjective (poetic) pitch-dark
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
أُيَّل • (ʾuyyal) m, noun stag, hart; deer (archaic) wild goat; ibex
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
clewe noun A clew (“lump or sphere of thread or yarn”). A string of yarn for finding a path.
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
澪標 • (miotsukushi, miozukushi) noun a dolphin erected as a daybeacon or daymark: a navigational marker indicating the bounds of a water channel allusion to 尽くし (tsukushi, “exhausting”) one of the sixty-one famous incense varieties, made from aromatic 伽羅 (kyara) wood with a bitter smell
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Foreign word of the day  in Danish
nænne verb (especially in the negative) to have the heart or conscience to do something unpleasant or hurtful (especially in the negative) to have it in oneself to spoil or defile something pure
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Überrest m, noun (chiefly in the plural) residue, remnant, leftover, relic (in the plural, euphemistic) remains, corpse (historiography) remains, leftover(s): non-traditional source (inadvertently produced source of information of historiographical interest)
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Foreign word of the day  in French
kiffer verb (slang, transitive) to love or like (slang, intransitive) to smoke hashish
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Foreign word of the day  in Gulf Arabic
فيتامين و • (vitamin waw) noun (sarcastic) Vitamin (w) (a fictional superpower used as a reference to cronyism).
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Foreign word of the day  in German
ramponieren verb (chiefly informal) to damage severely; to destroy
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
botoun noun A button or decorative protrusion on garments or tools. A bud, budset, or shoot; a newly-formed leaf. Something that is small or of little or no value or worth.
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