Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2021/July

This is the July archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2021.

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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
malsín noun (rare) tattler, stool pigeon, delator, informer
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
अधुना • (adhunā́) adverb at this time, now
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Foreign word of the day  in Volapük
tood noun car, automobile
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Burkane noun (dialectal, Baltic) carrot
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
ἀπειρέσιος • (apeirésios) adjective boundless, immense countless
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Foreign word of the day  in French
train de sénateur noun snail's pace, stately pace, solemn gait (literally, “senator's pace”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
hàm ếch noun (anatomy) palate vaulted opening
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Foreign word of the day  in Serbo-Croatian
šestòper / шесто̀пер noun (historical, military) A six-flanged mace.
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Foreign word of the day  in Gothic
𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍀𐌾𐍉 • (skaurpjō) noun (hapax legomenon) scorpion (arachnid)
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
cadere nel vuoto verb (idiomatic) to fall on deaf ears (literally, “to fall in the void”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Greenlandic
eqalussuannguvoq verb to be ill from eating shark meat
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Foreign word of the day  in Greek
καρμανιόλα • (karmanióla) noun (historical) guillotine (for capital punishment) (figuratively) accident blackspot or a warning sign for one (obsolete, historical) a French song and dance (colloquial) a very expensive restaurant
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Foreign word of the day  in Czech
drť noun disintegrated or crushed material, for example grit
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
aamukampa noun (military slang) A comb on which every tooth represents one remaining morning of military service - every morning one tooth is removed (literally, “morning comb”). (figuratively, by extension) The remaining last days of anything.
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Foreign word of the day  in Persian
ارغند • (arğand) adjective (archaic) ferocious, raging, formidable
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
番綻 / 番绽 (fân-chhan) adjective (Hakka) naughty; mischievous
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
bouwvakkersdecolleté noun (informal) A plumber's crack, a builder's bum (literally, “builder's cleavage”).
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
вокза́л • (vokzál) noun (transportation) station, terminal (with a building for passenger facilities), especially for the railways (obsolete) park, pleasure garden
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
armiductor noun (Medieval Latin) commander of an army
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Foreign word of the day  in Kikuyu
mwatũ noun a beehive made of a tree trunk split in two and hollowed out a cylindrical wooden barrel whose both ends have lids, used for storage in the home
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
त्वरित • (tvarit) adjective, adverb (adjective) fast, speedy, quick (adjective) hasty, hurried (adverb) hastily, quickly, soon
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
คืนหมาหอน • (kʉʉn-mǎa-hɔ̌ɔn) noun (slang) election eve: the night before an election day (literally, “dog-howling night”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Swahili
zamu noun turn (one's chance to use or do something, as in a game) duty, responsibility
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Foreign word of the day  in Lower Sorbian
slě noun breast harness for horses suspenders, braces (strap for holding up trousers)
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Foreign word of the day  in Korean
버리다 • (beorida) verb (transitive) to throw away (a thing), to abandon (a person) (auxiliary) marks completion of the main verb, often with the implication that the result is negative
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Foreign word of the day  in Yoruba
yàúyàúù noun Internet fraudster User of Yahoo!
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