Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2019/December

This is the December archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2019.

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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
كُسْبَة • (kusba) f, noun refuse of oil plants, the oil cake of sesame or castor bean, pulp of cotton or the like, what is left of pressed fruits a sort of dates
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Foreign word of the day  in Mecayapan Nahuatl
tatziꞌtziꞌpatoꞌ verb (stative) be tranquil (of a place)
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
sauce noun A sauce or gravy; a liquid condiment. A solution or broth used for pickling or preserving. A liquid medicine; sauce as a pharmaceutical.
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
कसर • (kasar) f, noun shortcoming, shortfall, flaw, fault falling out (in a relationship)
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Foreign word of the day  in German
mutterseelenallein adjective utterly alone, all alone
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
سُلَاف • (sulāf) m, noun sweet wine from unpressed grapes: wine of high sugar content prepared from the juice that grapes release without pressing, when they have become sweet and slack from hanging too long on the vines
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
iê-iê-iê m, noun (music) the style of rock and roll, and associated cultural scene, popular during the 60s in Brazil
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
hejt m inan, noun (neologism, Internet) Hateful or spiteful comments, especially online; naysaying or harassment.
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Foreign word of the day  in Catalan
pòquer m, noun (uncountable) poker (card game) (countable) four of a kind
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Foreign word of the day  in Hebrew
בַּר מִינַן • (bár minán) interjection, noun (idiomatic) May it not happen to us. (archaic, idiomatic) One who has passed away, deceased, died.
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
bout m, noun bolt (threaded metal cylinder) haunch, leg of an animal as food (vulgar) fart bolt (crossbow arrow) (Suriname) thigh bar, rod (archaic) darling, sweetheart, dear iron (apparatus for ironing clothing)
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
ปิดหีบ • (bpìt-hìip) verb (idiomatic) to close the polls; to reach the end of a polling period.
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Foreign word of the day  in Swahili
achali class n, noun achar, spicy pickle or chutney dried spicy mango
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
opzoomeren verb (chiefly Rotterdam) to increase the quality of life and social cohesion in a residential street, especially in poorer areas, through communally organized initiatives such as social events and beautification projects
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Foreign word of the day  in Yiddish
פּלוצלינג • (plutsling) adverb suddenly (happening quickly and with little or no warning)
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
口訣 (kǒujué) noun (religion) orally transmitted esoteric teachings in Buddhism and Taoism mnemonic chant; formula; rhyme for remembering (arithmetic tables, character stroke order, etc.)
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Foreign word of the day  in French
endimancher verb (takes a reflexive pronoun) to dress up in one's Sunday best
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Foreign word of the day  in Old High German
mūspilli n, noun (poetic) judgment day or apocalypse (exact meaning unclear)
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
yol proper noun Yuletide, the twelve days of Christmas. Christmas (the 25th of December) a surname. (rare) The month of December.
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Vorführeffekt m, noun The phenomenon that something which was previously not working correctly suddenly does work correctly when one tries to demonstrate the fault to others.
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Foreign word of the day  in Zulu
ísihlûngu class 7, noun poison, toxin, venom antidote hives, urticaria, rash
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
وَجَرَ • (wajara) verb to make take in orally, to put into the mouth of (figurative) to give someone to understand that he is disagreeable, to let swallow a bitter pill
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
鍬形 • (kuwagata) noun the shape of the horns on some Japanese war helmets or 兜 (kabuto) a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) with varying designs of helmet horns the hilt end of a 太刀 (tachi, “long sword”) in the shape of a helmet horn an tool used in 鍬焼き (kuwayaki), in the shape of a helmet horn Clipping of 鍬形虫 (kuwagatamushi): a stag beetle
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Foreign word of the day  in Danish
samfundskritisk adjective (chiefly of an artistic production) critical of society or some aspect thereof; advocating for reform
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Foreign word of the day  in Esperanto
debati verb (transitive) to debate (transitive) to knock off, to strike off, to knock down, to beat down
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