Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2021/November

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

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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
ἐκχυμόω • (ekkhumóō) verb to extract juice from (middle, of small veins) to shed the blood and leave it extravasated under the skin
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
dirige noun The portion of a Christian remembrance service beginning from the first antiphon in matins for the dead. The recitation or singing of the Office of the Dead to commemorate the deceased.
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
snocciolare verb to stone; to pit (to remove a fruit pit from) to rattle off; to reel off; to trot out (informal) to fork out
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Foreign word of the day  in Korean
속 • (sok) noun the interior or inside, especially that which is underneath or within a covering stomach; insides (biology, taxonomy) a genus that which is worldly, secular, or common colloquialism
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
халту́ра • (xaltúra) noun (informal, slang) yields acquired or work performed irregularly, job of imperfect compliance undeclared work, black market job, supplementary contract, moonlighting, participation in informal economy, nixer; khaltura shoddy work (something intentionally done poorly), sloppy or half-assed job; hack; a botch; a pot boiler; khaltura (regional, now largely unknown) funeral banquet, extra-treats in connection to someone being interred
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
إِقْلِيل • (ʾiqlīl) noun (al-Andalus, farriery) a nail fixing the iron-fitting of the hoof of a pack animal
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
bakałarz noun (archaic) teacher (historical) a person who has achieved a bachelor's degree in a medieval university
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
उष्ट्रपक्षी • (uṣṭrapakṣī) noun (literary) an ostrich (literally, “camel-bird”)
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Kommunistenfresser noun A fanatical anticommunist (literally, “devourer of communists”).
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Foreign word of the day  in Kikuyu
kĩara noun dunghill, midden, compost pit finger
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Foreign word of the day  in Komi-Zyrian
чуш • (čuš) noun lip of an animal muzzle for calves (derogatory) lip (of a human) (dialectal) pacifier, dummy (dialectal) salt cellar in the form of a casket (dialectal) mink (Mustela lutreola)
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
subductisupercilicarptor noun (humorous, nonce word) an overly critical person, an extremely censorious person, an eyebrow-raising fault-finder
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
第一桶金 (dì-yī tǒng jīn) noun the first pot of gold; the initial profits from an economic endeavor
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Foreign word of the day  in Norwegian Bokmål
abstinent adjective abstinent or abstaining (refraining from indulgence) experiencing withdrawal or withdrawal symptoms
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
bót noun (dated) brush (used for cleaning) (dated) police station
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Foreign word of the day  in Greenlandic
aaffappoq verb to capture a walrus
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
extralimitarse verb (reflexive) to overstep the mark, to cross the line, to go too far
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
अपर्याप्त • (aparyāpta) adjective insufficient, inadequate, incomplete immeasurable, limitless, unlimited, unbounded
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Foreign word of the day  in Wutunhua
xhuiyang noun fish (literally, “water sheep”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
verslaan verb (transitive) to defeat (transitive) to report on (transitive, dated, dialectal) to destroy, to fell (transitive, dated, dialectal) to beat to death; to kill
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Foreign word of the day  in Czech
letět verb to fly (colloquial) to be in fashion
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
舐める • (nameru) verb to lick (of a flame) to lick to taste to experience hardship to underestimate, to make light of
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