Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2023/November

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

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Foreign word of the day  in Asturian
furabollos noun index finger (literally, “bun-piercer”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
uszywiście particle (humorous, neologism) of course (blend containing the words for “ears” and “of course”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
ลอย ๆ • (lɔɔi-lɔɔi) adverb groundlessly; baselessly; causelessly nonspecifically; sweepingly; without specific target or topic (literally “float, float”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
किरच • (kirac) noun splinter shard, fragment bit, grain (figuratively) a rare Indian straight sword for thrusting, likely a Maratha weapon
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Foreign word of the day  in Esperanto
vortlakso noun blather; logorrhea (literally, “word diarrhaea”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
мота́лка • (motálka) noun coiler, reel, winder (device or machine for coiling, winding, or unwinding something) (slang) youth gang, crew
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
bica noun spout, water pipe (conduit) (Portugal, chiefly Lisbon and Southern Portugal) espresso (Brazil, slang) shop selling illegal drugs (Brazil) a type of strong kick with the tip of one's foot striking the adversary
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
port (pot1 / pok1) verb (Hong Kong Cantonese, transitive, informal) to file a complaint against; to report
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Grufti noun (colloquial, derogatory) coffin dodger, old fart (old person) (originally youth slang) goth (member of the goth subculture)
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
retroterra noun (geography) hinterland background (social or historical context)
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
ᾰ̓́ποικος • (ápoikos) adjective, noun (adjective) away from home, abroad (sometimes followed by a genitive) (noun) settler, colonist (noun) colony (foreign polis founded by and originally dependent on a metropolis)
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
nguồn cơn noun (of a phenomenon or an event) the reason why (literally, “fount of a bout”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Urdu
لوہا • (lohā) noun, adjective (noun) iron (Fe) (noun, by extension) an object made from metal (noun, figuratively) a sword (noun, figuratively) pomp, hold (noun, literally) clothes iron (appliance used by tailors and washers) (adjective, indeclinable, figuratively) strong, heavy, stiff, hard
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Foreign word of the day  in Ukrainian
принагі́дно • (prynahídno) adverb taking the opportunity (to) as occasion arises, as the opportunity arises
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
adumbrō verb to bring a shadow over something, to cast a shadow on, to shade or overshadow something, to cover, to screen (especially in painting) to represent an object with light and shade, to shade (especially in painting) to represent something only in outline, to sketch in shadow, to silhouette, to outline, to sketch to imitate, to copy, to counterfeit
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Foreign word of the day  in Yoruba
méríìírí noun something unusual; something strange (from a phrase meaning “I have not seen this before”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
Bruynzeelwoning noun (Suriname) catch-all name for several models of prefabricated single-storey wooden houses, built on storey-high concrete stilts to protect against pests and to enable passive cooling, which were manufactured and popularised by the Bruynzeel timber company between 1950 and 1990
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Foreign word of the day  in French
cracher dans la soupe verb (idiomatic) to bite the hand that feeds one (to treat what is offered or available with neglect and disdain) (literally, “to spit in the soup”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Pela
faʔ⁵⁵ kʰjɛʔ⁵⁵ noun tea (dried leaves) tea (beverage)
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Foreign word of the day  in Bulgarian
ша́рена сол • (šárena sol) noun (uncountable) traditional Bulgarian spice mix used for seasoning food. Basic ingredients include table salt, sweet paprika, summer savory, fenugreek, wild thyme and roasted pumpkin seeds, although others are sometimes added as well
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
हुतात्मन् • (hutātman) noun (neologism) a martyr (literally, “sacrificed soul”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
ذُكَّار • (ḏukkār) noun the male of a dioecious tree (such as figs or pistachios)
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
hannuhanhi noun (colloquial) lucky stiff (unfairly lucky person)
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Foreign word of the day  in Kashubian
żôłniérz noun soldier dragonfly (insect of the suborder Epiprocta)
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