Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2019/August

1. flower (reproductive structure in angiosperms)
2. (finance) interest

1. belonging to a guild
2. incorporated
3. expert, professional, skilled, competent
4. (colloquial) proper, thorough

1. (idiomatic, of people) in a very large number.

1. (archaic, literature) rose
2. flower
3. the center of a watermelon (which is the sweetest part)

1. overseeable; that is easily seen and comprehended as a whole
2. (by extension) undaunting, manageable; that does not inspire despair or despondence

1. soursop tree (Annona muricata)

2. (intransitive) to prostrate oneself, to kowtow

2. cat (Classifier: 隻／只 m c)
3. (Mandarin, colloquial) to hide oneself
4. (Beijing Mandarin) to hang around; to stay somewhere doing nothing
5. (Mandarin, colloquial) to bend over; to stoop
6. (Mainland China, colloquial) modem
7. (Cantonese) to get drunk
8. (Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien) stingy; miserly
9. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) lecherous; lascivious

Today is International Cat Day, a day established in 2002 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare to raise awareness for cats and the issues they face.

1. (botany) deciduous (of or pertaining to trees that shed their leaves in winter)
2. obsolete
3. null and void

1. dandelion (Taraxacum gen. et spp.)
2. common chicory, Belgian endive (Cichorium intybus)

1. (economics, colloquial) huge merger
2. (politics, colloquial) grand coalition

1. banana

1. to try to change the subject of a conversation; evade the subject under discussion and talk about other affairs; steer clear of the crucial point

1. (intransitive) to take an example from, to take warning from (بِـ (bi-))
2. (ditransitive) to consider, to regard as
3. to examine, to investigate, to put to test

1. the enjoyment of coffee (or tea) as a social activity
2. a break from work or other activities, usually with coffee or tea
3. a light informal snack or meal in mid-morning or mid-afternoon similar to the English concept of afternoon tea

1. peaceful, full of peace, characterised by peace

1. the sludge left behind by a river that has retreated, alluvium

1. Shangri-La; Arcadia; lotus land; utopia; unexpectedly fantastic place off the beaten path, usually an unspoiled wilderness of great beauty; land of idyllic beauty; fictitious land of peace; heaven of peace and happiness; retreat away from the turmoil of the world; place for taking refuge

1. (literary or regional, zoology) bee

1. (informal, dated, usually only predicative) hoity-toity, finical, affected, stilted

1. potato (Solanum tuberosum)
2. (poetic, biblical) apple

1. A savoury smell, especially the fragrance of roasting meat.

1. (idiomatic) to talk for hours on the telephone

1. thirtysomething (woman in her thirties)

1. (chiefly Ukraine) to totter, to walk slowly and clumsily forward especially on back feet
2. (ambitransitive, slang) to pinch, to obtain in a nefarious fashion

1. Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); Japanese nightingale
2. short for 鶯色 (uguisu iro): an olive-green color, as the rear of a bush warbler
3. short for 鶯声 (uguisu-goe): a description for a woman's beautiful voice
4. a metal skewer used in 香道 (kōdō) to fasten a paper wrapper
5. a bamboo skewer used in binding an obi or similar

1. to paint, to smear
2. to propitiate by gift
3. to bribe

1. gardener

1. one who is silent, one who doesn’t talk
2. a calm, dispassionate, and self-effacing person, seen as wisely living according to Maat (virtue/truth/cosmic order)

1. (transitive, with indirect object) to think someone deserves something, to witness or acknowledge someone's success or enjoyment without envy or grudge (usually referring to positive outcomes)
2. (transitive, with indirect object) to award, to grant (of orders, tenders, etc.)
3. (transitive, with indirect object) to give, usually out of benevolence or grace; to grant

1. bipolar disorder; manic depression