Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2022/March

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

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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
भोक्तृ • (bhoktṛ) noun (also figuratively) eater (one who eats) enjoyer, experiencer; consumer king, ruler, protector lover, husband
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Foreign word of the day  in German
am Hungertuch nagen verb (idiomatic) to be poor and starving (literally, “to gnaw at the hunger cloth”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
antytalent noun (uncountable) lack of talent (countable, metonym) dunce, a person with a lack of talent
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
αἶνος • (aînos) noun tale or story; story with a moral, fable praise
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
mazzafrusto noun flail, chain mace (literally, “mace whip”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
sóher adjective, noun (adjective, colloquial) poor (with little or no money) (adjective, colloquial, pejorative) stingy (unwilling to spend, give, or share) (noun, colloquial) a pauper (someone who is poor)
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
كَوْكَب • (kawkab) noun (dated) star planet leucoma (Sudan) spear of a wide and jagged blade
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
電蛐蛐 / 电蛐蛐 (diànqūqu) noun (Mandarin, regional, colloquial, humorous) pager; beeper (device) (literally, “electric cricket”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Ukrainian
ґа́ра • (gára) noun groove, slot trolley with a box for transporting earth or sand (Canada) car, automobile
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Foreign word of the day  in Gothic
𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌼𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹 • (þramstei) noun (hapax legomenon) grasshopper, locust (insect)
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Foreign word of the day  in Norwegian Nynorsk
ammetåke noun (figurative, usually uncountable) a whimsy and/or hyperaware state of mind (and being) thought to affect mothers in the period after birth in which they are breastfeeding
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Foreign word of the day  in Prakrit
𑀢𑀢𑁆𑀢 (tatta) adjective, noun (adjective) heated, warmed, hot (noun) reality, truth
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
công phu adjective, noun (adjective, of a creation) conscientious; thorough; painstaking (noun, rare) skill gained through training and diligent work (noun, martial arts, rare, chiefly in awkward translation from English) kung fu
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Irish
ar·neät verb to expect, to await to wait for another to assume responsibility
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Foreign word of the day  in Yiddish
המן־טאַשן • (homen-tashn) noun hamantaschen (Ashkenazi three-cornered cookies traditionally eaten on Purim)
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Foreign word of the day  in Serbo-Croatian
grȋb / гри̑б noun (Kajkavian, obsolete) fungus (Kajkavian, obsolete, figurative) germ, nidus, nucleus (Montenegro) seine, a kind of fishing-net
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Foreign word of the day  in Komi-Zyrian
веж • (vež) adjective, noun (adjective) green (adjective, of hair) fair (adjective, of fruit) unripe (adjective, dialectal) yellow (noun) jealousy, jealousness (noun) anger, fury, rage (noun, weaving) crossing of warps
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
lārva noun ghost, haunt, evil spirit, demon hobgoblin, goblin (figuratively) horrific mask (figuratively) skeleton
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
сме́лый • (smélyj) adjective courageous, daring, audacious, bold, brave
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
駒 • (koma) noun (rare) foal; young horse; horse in general (shogi, chess) piece; man someone controlled by another; pawn; puppet (music) bridge (structure on string instruments)
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Foreign word of the day  in Irish
laethanta na riabhaí noun borrowing days (last three days of March) (literally, “days of the brindled cow”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
मानवीय • (mānavīya) adjective human humanitarian; humane
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
cruelte noun The state of being cruel; cruelness, cruelty, ruthlessness. Viciousness, ferociousness; the state of being fierce. (rare) Strictness, unforgivingness. (rare) Injuriousness, painfulness.
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