Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2020/December

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

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Foreign word of the day  in Swahili
chanjo noun a gash, incision, cut (medicine) vaccination, vaccine (substance meant to stimulate production of antibodies)
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Foreign word of the day  in Jamaican Creole
prekeh noun confusion, scandal, trouble
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
落湯雞 / 落汤鸡 (luòtāngjī) noun someone who is soaking wet, who looks like a drowned rat someone who is in the soup, in a difficult situation (literally, “a chicken that fell in hot water”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
megadode noun megadeath (one million deaths, esp. in the context of nuclear war)
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
cipoal noun (ecology) a tangle of lianas (figurative) tangle; snarl; imbroglio (a tricky, complicated or messy situation that is hard to get out of)
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Foreign word of the day  in Persian
خرگوش • (xargôš) noun hare, rabbit greater plantain (Plantago major) mullein (Verbascum gen et spp.)
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Foreign word of the day  in Irish
tionchar noun influence, impact (significant or strong influence)
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
προπυνθάνομαι • (propunthánomai) verb to find out beforehand
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Maskenträger noun A mask wearer, e.g. a masquerader or a person wearing a surgical mask.
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Armenian
կրիայ • (kriay) noun tortoise, turtle
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
वस्मन् • (vásman) noun clothing, garment; cover nest
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Foreign word of the day  in Esperanto
volapukaĵo noun (slang) something incomprehensible, something that makes no sense
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
barbijo noun (Latin America) chinstrap (Latin America) face mask, surgical mask
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
hú verb to howl (colloquial) to call for
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Foreign word of the day  in Swedish
pava noun (colloquial) bottle (of alcohol)
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
寒 • (kan) affix, noun (affix, noun) midwinter; cold season (affix) cold; chilly (affix) poor; poverty-stricken (noun) cold, coldness
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback Midwinter on the Northern Hemisphere

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Foreign word of the day  in French
espèces sonnantes et trébuchantes noun cash, spot cash, hard cash
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback The Latin Monetary Union, a bimetallic monetary union, was founded by treaty on this date in 1865.

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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
bejgli noun A walnut or poppy seed roll traditionally eaten in Hungary at Christmas time or at Easter.
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
ห้วย • (hûai) noun stream containing water flowing from a mountain
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
челове́ческий • (čelovéčeskij) adjective human humane, sympathetic (colloquial, figurative) decent, proper
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
blocco noun blockade embargo block, blockage A state in which it is impossible to progress; standstill, paralysis (economics) freeze (of pay, etc.) lockdown (computing) crash (pathology) failure, arrest
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
مشارة • (mašāra) noun a garden bed, a horticultural or agricultural plot
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
महामारी • (mahāmārī) noun epidemic (a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time) (literally, “great killer”)
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback New Year's Eve; Coronavirus pandemic