Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2022/February

This is the February archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2022.

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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
مسكوكة • (maskūka) noun coin, piece of mintage
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Foreign word of the day  in French
juveigneur noun (largely historical) A younger or youngest son of a nobleman who is given apanage.
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
pasożyt noun (biology) parasite (organism)
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Foreign word of the day  in Classical Nahuatl
tlauhquechol noun A feather of the roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja).
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Foreign word of the day  in Alemannic German
amigs adverb every time, each time, regularly (regional) earlier, in the past (regional) always	Canton of Solothurn:
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
aprico adjective exposed to the sun sun-loving (rare) clear, bright, serene
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
mất verb, particle (verb) to lose something (verb, formal, euphemistic) to die (verb) to take (time) (particle) used to indicate the absence of something after the action expressed in the verb
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
αὐτόθεν • (autóthen) adverb from that very place from oneself, of one's own accord at once, immediately
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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
repül verb (intransitive) to fly (intransitive) to be hurled, shot or blown through the air (especially with force or speed) (intransitive, literary) to speed, to run, to rush (intransitive, figurative, of time) to fly, to fly by (intransitive, colloquial) to be kicked out (to be forcefully removed from a position, location, etc.)
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle Korean
님〯 (nǐm) noun, suffix lord, master one's love, the beloved (suffix) honored; esteemed; attached to nouns to show respect
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
en Babia adverb (colloquial) lost in thought, with one's head in the clouds
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Foreign word of the day  in Basque
jainkoilo noun (rare, literary) butterfly
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Foreign word of the day  in Swedish
kökkenmödding noun (archaeology) a kitchen midden; a prehistoric pile of waste (colloquial, figuratively) any collection of unwanted things
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
咎める • (togameru) verb to find fault, to nitpick, to rebuke, to censure to feel guilty to question (suspect)
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
lōrīcātus adjective, noun (adjective) wearing a lōrīca, harnessed, clad in mail; wearing a coat of mail (noun) a warrior clad in mail, an armoured knight (noun, Christianity) a monk penitent who practises mortification of the flesh by wearing a chainmail shirt next to the skin (i.e., without padding)
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
ผู้ใหญ่ • (pûu-yài) noun elder adult (colloquial) person of high rank, authority, or dignity; superior; commander (colloquial) village chief
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Foreign word of the day  in Maltese
fergħun noun an evil or unscrupulous person a devil
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
आन • (ān) noun self-respect, dignity manner, custom vow, promise
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Foreign word of the day  in Catalan
rivet noun weather strip, draught excluder edging, piping (plural) hints, traces
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
巫毒教 (wūdújiào) noun voodoo (phono-semantic matching after the English word)
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
перено́счик • (perenósčik) noun carrier, transferrer, transporter (a person, creature, or thing that carries something from one place to another) (epidemiology) vector (carrier of a disease-causing agent) (dated) informer, intelligencer
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle French
fustet noun smoke tree, Cotinus coggygria
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Foreign word of the day  in Welsh
bendigedig adjective blessed excellent, fantastic, splendid, lovely
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Schaulust noun love for sightseeing (deprecative) curiosity
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