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This is the September archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2023.

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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
ปอกลอก • (bpɔ̀ɔk-lɔ̂ɔk) verb
  1. (idiomatic) to fleece: to con out of money or other benefit (literally “to peel and pare”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Haryanvi
नेज्जा (nejjā) noun
  1. reed used for making traditional ink-pen
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
xung phong verb
  1. (obsolete) to charge ahead to assault
  2. to volunteer for a task or mission
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
pendenciero adjective, noun
  1. (adjective) quarrelsome (looking for a fight)
  2. (noun) troublemaker, quarreler, bully
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Foreign word of the day  in Norwegian Bokmål
stedfortrederkrig noun
  1. a proxy war; a war where third parties are used as substitutes to direct warfare
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
懐抱 • (kaihō) noun
  1. hug, embrace
  2. a thought borne in one's mind
  3. bosom, chest
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Foreign word of the day  in Silesian
chwŏlidło noun
  1. (Cieszyn Silesia, marketing) advertisement, commercial (something used to try and sell a product or service)
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Foreign word of the day  in Romanian
a da peste nas verb
  1. to chastise, especially by bringing up someone’s fault or mistake (literally, “hit over the nose”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
περῐσπᾰσμός • (perispasmós) noun
  1. wheeling around, spinning
  2. (chiefly in the plural) distraction, distracting circumstances
  3. (grammar) circumflex accent
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
كَالُون • (kālūn) noun
  1. lock installed onto something; padlock
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Foreign word of the day  in Seri
xaḻaa noun
  1. cactus wren
  2. featherless hatchling (of any bird species)
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Foreign word of the day  in Persian
عنبرنسارا • (ambarnesârâ) noun
  1. donkey dung (used in traditional medicine)
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Foreign word of the day  in Galician
enxexar verb
  1. (transitive) to skulk, to lurk, to spy, to stalk
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
motormuis noun
  1. (Netherlands) A police officer on a motorcycle.
  2. A biker.
    (literally, “motorbike mouse”)
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Biker Mice from Mars first aired on this day in 1993.

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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
乘機 / 乘机 (chéngjī) verb
  1. to seize the opportunity to
  2. to take a plane
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Foreign word of the day  in French
bête de scène noun
  1. showman (literally, “beast of the stage”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
мана́га • (manága) noun
  1. (slang) hemp stock from milk
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Foreign word of the day  in Swedish
blåbär noun
  1. bilberry, Vaccinium sect. Myrtillus (the berry or the plant)
  2. blueberry, Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus (the berry or the plant)
  3. (colloquial) an inexperienced, unsuccessful or incompetent person; beginner, newbie
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
कम्प • (kampa) noun
  1. trembling motion, tremor, shaking
  2. an earthquake
  3. tremulous or thrilling pronunciation (potential modification of the falling (svarita) accent if followed by a high-pitched (udātta) syllable)
  4. (music) a kind of time
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
trololó noun
  1. light music; easy listening
  2. (by extension, Brazil) small talk
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Foreign word of the day  in Malay
kayangan noun
  1. paradise, heaven (the abode of the gods)
  2. (figurative, often pejorative) the elite, the high and mighty (a wealthy upper class disconnected from the living reality of the masses)
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
somnīculōsus adjective
  1. sleepy, drowsy
  2. sluggish, slothful
  3. (active notion) making sleepy, drowsy or sluggish
  4. deadly
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
तोताचश्म • (totācaśma) adjective
  1. of someone who shuns others in need; treacherous, disloyal
  2. of an opportunist who acts without consideration for the good that has been done to one; ungrateful
  3. inconsiderate
  4. of a turncoat
    (literally, “parrot-eyed”)
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