Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2024/April

This is the April archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2024.

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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
хо́хма • (xóxma) noun (colloquial) joke, anecdote (funny or amusing story) (colloquial) joke (something said or done for amusement and not in seriousness) (from a Yiddish word for “wit”, from the Hebrew word for “wisdom”, חָכְמָה (ḥoḵmā))
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
ذَكَاء • (ḏakāʔ) noun intelligence, mental acuteness (rare) burning, combustion (obsolete) full age, maturity
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
drżeć verb (intransitive) to tremble, to shiver
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
atávico adjective atavistic ancestral age-old
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Irish
áith adjective, noun (adjective) sharp (noun) drying-kiln for grains
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
गूँगे का गुड़ खाना • (gūṅge kā guṛ khānā) verb to experience feelings inexpressible in words (literally, “to eat jaggery as a mute man”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Pela
pʰai³¹ kɔ̃⁵¹ noun Jingpho sweet rice wine (usually home-brewed, used in ceremonies)
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Persian
𐎢𐎱𐎠 (u-p-a) preposition under, below [+accusative] in the reign of [+accusative]
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
colubrina noun (historical) culverin (firearm) Good King Henry (Blitum bonus-henricus)
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
σίμβλος • (símblos) noun beehive, hive (figuratively) store, hoard
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Foreign word of the day  in Gothic
𐌲𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌹𐍃 • (gistradagis) adverb (hapax) tomorrow (related to yesterday)
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
บริภาษ • (bɔɔ-rí-pâat) verb (very formal) to curse, to swear; to inveigh, to rail; to reprove, to censure
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Foreign word of the day  in Yoruba
bà jẹ́ verb (splitting verb, ergative) to spoil; to ruin; to destroy; to damage; to corrupt (splitting verb, with inú) to upset; to be sad; to be troubled (splitting verb, with ọkàn) to be heartbroken; to be heartsick; to be disheartened (splitting verb, with orúkọ) to bring shame to one's name; to give one a bad reputation
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
garupa noun rump (the hindquarters of an animal) (Brazil) the back seat of a motorcycle or bicycle
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Foreign word of the day  in Silesian
ônaczyć verb (transitive, colloquial) used in place of any other verb, to do (literally, “to he”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
mowen verb to be strong or powerful (auxiliary) to be able to; to have the capability (to do); can (auxiliary) to potentially be able (to do); might (auxiliary) to be permitted (to do); may to mow; to cut or slice off (the tops) of grasses or stalks to collect crops using a scythe or similar implement
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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
játszik verb (transitive, intransitive) to play (transitive, by extension) to pretend, to feign, to play (intransitive with -ra/-re) to angle for (to try to obtain something by subtle indirect means) (intransitive with -ban/-ben, literary) to change its color with the light, or to have an indeterminable color (intransitive, colloquial) to be an option (to be a viable alternative)
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
अवतार • (avatāra) noun avatar: descent (especially of a deity from heaven), appearance of any deity upon earth (but more particularly the incarnations of Vishnu in ten principal forms) any new and unexpected appearance translation
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Foreign word of the day  in French
dépanneur noun troubleshooter, repairman (Canada) convenience store
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
ba bảy hai mốt ngày adverb in a short time (literally, “three [times] seven [equals] twenty-one days”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
zo stoned als een garnaal adjective (informal, Netherlands, simile) very stoned (literally, “as stoned as a shrimp”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Kashubian
wnet adverb soon (within a short time) almost
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
dentifrangibulum noun (hapax, humorous) a fist (literally, “tooth-breaking tool”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Urdu
غُنُودَگی • (ġunūdagī) noun drowsiness (by extension) light nap stonedness (ie. stoned from intoxicants)
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Foreign word of the day  in Tagalog
bungisngis noun, adjective (noun) giggle (especially with teeth showing) (noun) giggler (adjective) giggling with teeth showing
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Foreign word of the day  in Romanian
răbdări prăjite noun (idiomatic, humorous) no food whatsoever (literally, “fried patiences”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
出埃及 (chū Āijí) verb (Christianity, informal) to get through the book of Exodus (literally, “to get out of Egypt”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Maltese
blakafefobija noun (slang) fear of having no coffee
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