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

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Foreign word of the day  in German
Fahrtwind noun
  1. A gentle headwind due to forward motion.
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
งู ๆ ปลา ๆ • (nguu-nguu-bplaa-bplaa) adjective, adverb
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Foreign word of the day  in Zulu
îdwéshu class 5, noun
  1. ribbon
  2. long strip of ploughed land
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Foreign word of the day  in Cappadocian Greek
καλακόνι (kalakóni) noun
  1. (Pharasa) borer, gimlet (tool for cutting holes)
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
愛 (ài) verb, adjective, noun
  1. to love
  2. to treasure; to value
  3. to like; to be fond of; to be keen on
  4. to begrudge; to be reluctant
  5. to be prone; to be easy to
  6. (Cantonese, Hakka, Wu) to want (an object)
  7. (Hakka, Min) to want (to do)
  8. (Hakka, Min) to need to; must
  9. Honorific for someone else's daughter; variant of 嬡／嫒 (ài).
  10. love; affection
  11. love; benevolence
  12. something one loves; someone whom one loves
  13. affectionate
  14. beloved
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Foreign word of the day  in Bengali
টমটম • (ṭômṭôm) noun
  1. a one-horse open carriage with a pair of wheels
  2. (transferred sense, neologism) an electric rickshaw
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
snuiveren verb
  1. (intransitive, nautical, of submarines) to sail at periscope depth by means of a snorkel.
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
قِنْطَار • (qinṭār) m, noun
  1. hundredweight, quintal, kantar (a weight measure, usually the largest and dividing to 100 رَطْل (raṭl))
    1. (obsolete, Syria until 1931) ‎ 6000 ‎وُقِيّة (wuqiyya)‎ – 256.4 kg
    2. (obsolete, Saudi-Arabia until 1964) 150 رَطْل (raṭl) – 67.5 kg
    3. (obsolete, Egypt/Sudan until 1891) ‎ 36 ‎أُقَّة (ʔuqqa)‎ – ‎400⁄3 ‎وِقِيّة (wiqiyya)‎ – 230400 ‎قِيرَاط (qīrāṭ)‎ – 44.93 kg
    4. (obsolete, Libya until 1927) ‎ 40 ‎أُقَّة (ʔuqqa)‎ – 51.28 kg
    5. (obsolete, Tunisia until 1895) ‎ 2000 ‎وُقِيّة (wuqiyya)‎ – 53.9 kg
    6. (obsolete, Algeria until 1843) ‎ 2400 ‎وُقِيّة (wuqiyya)‎ – 81.912 kg
    7. (obsolete, Morocco until 1923) – 50.75 kg
  2. (figurative) wealth, great possessions
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Foreign word of the day  in Swedish
syssna verb
  1. (neologism, Deaf culture) to listen with one’s sight
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle Armenian
զկեռ • (zkeṙ) noun
  1. medlar (fruit and tree)
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
ตายทั้งกลม • (dtaai-táng-glom) verb, noun
  1. (of a pregnant woman) to die together with the child or children in her womb.
  2. (ผี~) the ghost of a woman who died in this manner.
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Foreign word of the day  in Egyptian
Hn
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(ḥnꜥ) preposition, adverb
  1. along with, with (comitative)
  2. and, in addition to
  3. Abbreviated form of ḥnꜥw (“along with them”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
risti noun
  1. cross
  2. (card games) clubs, club
  3. (music, informal) sharp (symbol ♯ in notation)
  4. short for ristiselkä (“small of the back”); used especially of animals
  5. (typography) dagger (†)
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Foreign word of the day  in Afrikaans
daggazol noun
  1. joint (cigarette containing weed)
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Foreign word of the day  in Kikuyu
enja verb
  1. to dig
  2. to shave
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
οὐροβόρος • (ourobóros) adjective
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
zócalo m, noun
  1. (architecture) plinth, socle, base (a block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based)
  2. (architecture) baseboard, footing, skirting, skirting board; frieze
  3. (chiefly Mexico) public square, town square, plaza, zocalo
  4. (geology) basement, shelf (mass of rock underlying sedimentary cover)
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Foreign word of the day  in Azerbaijani
gözü su içməmək verb
  1. (transitive, idiomatic) to mistrust (to be wary, suspicious or doubtful of something or someone)
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