Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2020/March

This is the March archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2020.

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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
emprestar verb (transitive) to lend; to loan (to give temporarily) [with direct object ‘something’, along with a or para or indirect object pronoun ‘to someone’] (Brazil, transitive) to borrow (to obtain temporarily)
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Foreign word of the day  in Mecayapan Nahuatl
jo̱nchoꞌ noun a legendary animal resembling a gorilla
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
tuanis adjective (El Salvador, Honduras, colloquial) Of excellent quality; of a nice nature (said of a thing). (El Salvador, obsolete, colloquial) Of a good, kind personality (said of a person). (Honduras, Nicaragua, colloquial) Cool (fashionable). (Costa Rica, colloquial) Nice, agreeable, giving a general sense of well-being, cool.
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
gracht f or m, noun (Netherlands) canal (in a city, with houses on each side) (Belgium) ditch, trench (in the countryside, referring to both those that contain water and those that are dry)
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
ἀκμάζω • (akmázō) verb (intransitive) to be at or to reach the highest point (often figuratively) (intransitive) to be in one's prime, be ripe to have plenty of [with dative]
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Foreign word of the day  in Czech
hlíva ústřičná f, noun oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus (species of fungi in the family Pleurotaceae)
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
ลวงโลก • (luuang-lôok) adjective deceitful; deceiving; deceptive.
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
अकाज • (akāj) m, noun loss, damage, harm improper action, unacceptable action
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Foreign word of the day  in Hebrew
תיקונצ׳יק • (tikúnchik) m, noun handyman
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Foreign word of the day  in Zulu
kahlé adverb, interjection nicely, well, properly carefully, slowly, gently wait a moment, hold on don't [with infinitive]
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Imme f, noun (archaic or poetic) bee (obsolete) a swarm of bees
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
萬維網 (Wànwéiwǎng) proper noun (computing) World Wide Web; WWW
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Irish
midithir verb to weigh, to judge, to estimate to pass judgment (+ for (“on”))
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Foreign word of the day  in Gothic
𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌵𐌹𐌸𐌰𐌽 • (faurqiþan) verb to excuse to make void, nullify
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Foreign word of the day  in Esperanto
judismano noun practicing Jew, practicer of Judaism
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
तत्त्वमसि • (tattvamasi) phrase tat tvam asi
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
مَدْفَع • (madfaʿ) m, noun watercourse, the lowest part of a valley where the torrent pours forth (rare) verbal noun of دَفَعَ (dafaʕa) (form I) means of defense, pleading in court etc.
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Foreign word of the day  in Mongolian
залуу • (zaluu) noun youth youngster, kid, boy, girl guy, chap
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
kemben verb To comb or brush one's hair; to use a comb. (rare) To prettify or nicen. (rare) To untangle fibres; to card.
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Foreign word of the day  in Swahili
ua class u, noun yard, court (an enclosure typically attached to the back of a house) fence (of sticks or grass, of the type used for such an enclosure)
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Foreign word of the day  in Luxembourgish
wann conjunction if when as soon as, when
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Foreign word of the day  in Tatar
шәмәхә • (şämäxä) adjective, noun purple, violet
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Foreign word of the day  in Akkadian
𒄈𒉻𒁺 • (GÌR.PAD.DU /eṣemtu/) f, noun bone frame of the body
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Foreign word of the day  in Persian
سمد • (semed) noun (obsolete) fine wheat flour (obsolete) white bread a kind of twist; simit
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Foreign word of the day  in Iraqi Arabic
بنزينخانة (banzīnḵāna) f, noun petrol station
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Foreign word of the day  in Yiddish
צדיק אין פּעלץ • (tsadek in pelts) m, noun pious hypocrite
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