Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2021/January

This is the January archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2021.

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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
katkaisuhoitola noun detoxification clinic, rehabilitation clinic
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Foreign word of the day  in Swedish
fimpa noun to extinguish a cigarette (by extension) to quit smoking (slang) dump someone; to end a relationship
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Foreign word of the day  in Ido
idiotismoza adjective full of idioms or linguistic idiosyncrasies
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Foreign word of the day  in Kikuyu
kĩbaũ noun board (Northern) serval cat (Leptailurus serval) cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
mascherina noun small mask flexible pad held over the nose and mouth, such as a dust mask, paint mask, or surgical mask patch (animal marking) toecap radiator grill
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Foreign word of the day  in Serbo-Croatian
marìfet / марѝфет noun (archaic, except in Islam) knowledge, cognizance, informedness, epiphany (archaic) trick, ruse, device, artifice
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Foreign word of the day  in Zhuang
yiuhrumz noun kite (lightweight toy) (literally, “wind sparrowhawk”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
hoefijzerneus noun horseshoe bat, bat of the family Rhinolophidae
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Georgian
შვილი • (švili) noun child, son, daughter
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Foreign word of the day  in Greek
ιός • (iós) noun (medicine, microbiology) virus (computing) virus venom (cognate of Latin virūs)
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Foreign word of the day  in Korean
손님네 • (sonnimne) proper noun (chiefly Gyeongsang and Gangwon, shamanism) the deities of epidemic (historically smallpox in particular), euphemistically referred to as "the guest folk"
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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
szemöldökfa noun lintel, transom (literally, “eyebrow board”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
code noun Any kind of plant gum; a gummy or resinous substance. Cud; regurgitated food chewed upon by certain livestock. (rare) A mass or hump; a large pile of something. A coherent and unified system or body of laws. The core part of someone's last testament.
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Foreign word of the day  in Chichewa
chifúwa noun chest (thorax) cold, or any other disease that can be felt in the chest
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
ノックする • (nokku suru) verb to knock to press down on the rear end of a mechanical pencil and dispense lead
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
marisquería noun seafood shop, especially one that specializes in shellfish seafood restaurant, especially one that specializes in shellfish
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
अर्जुन • (árjuna) noun (adjective) white, clear, bright (adjective) made of silver, silvern (noun) silver (noun) slight inflammation of the conjunctiva or white of the eye (noun, plant) a particular grass (proper noun) Arjuna (noun, plural) the descendants of Arjuna
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Foreign word of the day  in French
malade adjective, noun (adjective) ill, unwell, sick (adjective, informal) mentally disturbed; crazy; nuts; mental (noun) an ill or sick person; a patient (noun, informal) somebody who is crazy; a nutcase
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Foreign word of the day  in Afrikaans
robot noun robot traffic light
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Foreign word of the day  in Classical Nahuatl
ātlān chānehqueh noun Edible aquatic animals; seafood.
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Foreign word of the day  in Ladino
las Frutas proper noun Tu BiShvat (literally, “the fruits”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
لَقَاح • (laqāḥ) noun vaccine seed, semen, sperm pollen virus, infective agent
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Foreign word of the day  in Hausa
ɗan sanda noun policeman (literally, “man of the baton”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Catalan
escampar verb (transitive, reflexive) to scatter, to disperse (to (cause to) separate and go in different directions) (transitive) to spread (to disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area) (reflexive) to spread (to proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated) (reflexive, intransitive) to clear up (of stormy weather, to dissipate, to become calm)
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