Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2020/August

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

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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
placebo noun (Christianity) The vespers sung in the office for the dead. Talk for buttering someone up, making them sycophantic or pleasing them. A representation or exemplar of adulation or sycophancy.
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
xoa verb to rub (to move one object while maintaining contact with another object over some area) to smear, to rub
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
حبارى • (ḥubārā) noun, f bustard (Otididae bird such as Chlamydotis spp., Otis tarda, Ardeotis arabs)
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Foreign word of the day  in Turkish
yürümek verb (intransitive) to walk. (intransitive) to march, move forward, go forward, go on, advance. (intransitive) to make haste, hurry, go quickly. (intransitive) to function, work, run.
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Foreign word of the day  in Swedish
råttan i pizzan c, noun An urban legend about a pizzeria serving rat meat to unaware customers (transferred sense) A book by Bengt af Klintberg about urban legends (transferred sense) An urban legend
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
ส่งไม้ต่อ • (sòng-máai-dtɔ̀ɔ) verb (idiomatic) to let someone do or be something as one's successor; to pass (a role, position, office, etc) to someone.
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Foreign word of the day  in Kikuyu
gĩcicio class 7, noun mirror pane (for windows, doors, etc.) (in the plural) eyeglasses
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Foreign word of the day  in Czech
kruchý adjective (rare, literary) brittle, crumbly (obsolete) (of food) crisp (obsolete) (of soil) solid, firm, (of stones) hard, (of bread) stale (mineralogy) brittle
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Foreign word of the day  in Northern Mansi
ха̄р (χār) noun male animal male moose stallion
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Foreign word of the day  in Gothic
𐌰𐍆𐍈𐌰𐍀𐌽𐌰𐌽 • (afƕapnan) verb to be choked to be quenched (of a fire)
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
besteedster f, noun (historical) A woman working as an employment agent for maidservants or wetnurses, sometimes also for manservants. (dated) A family roof, an old-fashioned large model of umbrella made of cotton fabric (against rain).
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
adelgazar verb to make thin or slender to refine, purify to lose weight
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
पर्वत • (párvata) m, noun mountain, mountain range, height, hill, rock an artificial mound or heap (of grain, salt, silver, gold etc. presented to Brahmans) the number 7 (from the 7 principal mountain-ranges) a fragment of rock, stone a (mountain-like) cloud
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
lảng verb, adjective to sneak away; to take French leave to digress; to try to avoid talking about something; to turn away (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) hard of hearing due to old age
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Kegel m, noun skittle, ninepin, bowling pin; pin [from 13th c.] (by extension) any heap or peak of conical or pyramidal shape, especially of feces, hay, brushwood, of mountains and of the tip of a helmet [from 14th c.] (mathematics) cone [from 18th c.] (obsolete) ruffian, bastard (illegitimate son)
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
插科打諢 (chākēdǎhùn) verb to jest; to joke; to tell a joke; to crack a joke; to wisecrack
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
κρῑ́βᾰνος • (krī́banos) m, noun covered earthen vessel, wherein bread was baked by putting hot embers round it funnel-shaped vessel, used for drawing water underground channel or vaulted passage, in irrigation works hollow, cavern in a rock
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Foreign word of the day  in Esperanto
ĉiĉeroni verb (intransitive) to act as a tour guide (transitive) to guide (as a tour guide); to show around
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
lankous noun family relationship between a person and his/her spouse's brother (law) affinity (family relationship through marriage, especially that above)
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Foreign word of the day  in Irish
scar verb to sever to separate to tear asunder
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle French
despouiller verb to skin (an animal) (figuratively) to strip away, to remove to undress (someone) (reflexive, se despouiller) to undress; to get undressed
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Armenian
լոք • (lokʿ) noun wels catfish, sheatfish, Silurus glanis
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
विषम • (viṣam) adjective irregular, heterogeneous uneven harsh; intense (mathematics) odd (not divisible by two)
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese Pidgin English
la-li-loong noun thief a contemptible person
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Foreign word of the day  in Armenian
միթե • (mitʿe) particle is it possible? could it be so? whether? really?
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Foreign word of the day  in Cora
jaijtzʌ noun white-nosed coati (Nasua narica)
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Foreign word of the day  in French
nature morte f, noun still life (work of art)
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Foreign word of the day  in Malay
merdeka or مرديک adjective free; the state of being liberated (of a polity) independent (not ruled by others)
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