Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2020/December

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2020/December. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2020/December, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2020/December in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2020/December you have here. The definition of the word Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2020/December will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofWiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2020/December, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

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

1

Foreign word of the day  in Swahili
chanjo noun
  1. a gash, incision, cut
  2. (medicine) vaccination, vaccine (substance meant to stimulate production of antibodies)
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Coronavirus pandemic

2

3

Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
落湯雞 / 落汤鸡 (luòtāngjī) noun
  1. someone who is soaking wet, who looks like a drowned rat
  2. someone who is in the soup, in a difficult situation
    (literally, “a chicken that fell in hot water”)
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

4

Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
megadode noun
  1. megadeath (one million deaths, esp. in the context of nuclear war)
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Coronavirus pandemic; over one million recorded deaths of COVID19

5

Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
cipoal noun
  1. (ecology) a tangle of lianas
  2. (figurative) tangle; snarl; imbroglio (a tricky, complicated or messy situation that is hard to get out of)
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

6

7

Foreign word of the day  in Irish
tionchar noun
  1. influence, impact (significant or strong influence)
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

8

Foreign word of the day  in Korean
검역 • (geomyeok) noun
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Coronavirus pandemic

9

Foreign word of the day  in Czech
mdlo noun
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

10

11

Foreign word of the day  in German
Maskenträger noun
  1. A mask wearer, e.g. a masquerader or a person wearing a surgical mask.
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Coronavirus pandemic

12

13

Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
teho-osasto noun
  1. (medicine) intensive care unit, ICU
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Coronavirus pandemic

14

15

Foreign word of the day  in Esperanto
volapukaĵo noun
  1. (slang) something incomprehensible, something that makes no sense
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Zamenhof Day

16

Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
barbijo noun
  1. (Latin America) chinstrap
  2. (Latin America) face mask, surgical mask
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Coronavirus pandemic

17

18

Foreign word of the day  in Yiddish
דריידל • (dreydl) noun
  1. spinning top
  2. Hanukkah dreidel
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
last day of Hanukkah

19

Foreign word of the day  in Egyptian
h
h		 Q7
 (hh) noun
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Coronavirus pandemic

20

Foreign word of the day  in Swedish
pava noun
  1. (colloquial) bottle (of alcohol)
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

21

Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
寒 • (kan) affix, noun
  1. (affix, noun) midwinter; cold season
  2. (affix) cold; chilly
  3. (affix) poor; poverty-stricken
  4. (noun) cold, coldness
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Midwinter on the Northern Hemisphere

22

Foreign word of the day  in Latin
sternūtō verb
  1. to sneeze (repeatedly or violently)
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Coronavirus pandemic

23

Foreign word of the day  in French
espèces sonnantes et trébuchantes noun
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.

24

Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
bejgli noun
  1. A walnut or poppy seed roll traditionally eaten in Hungary at Christmas time or at Easter.
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

25

26

Foreign word of the day  in Thai
ห้วย • (hûai) noun
  1. stream containing water flowing from a mountain
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback

27

Foreign word of the day  in Welsh
hunanynysu verb
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Coronavirus pandemic

28

29

Foreign word of the day  in Italian
blocco noun
  1. blockade
  2. embargo
  3. block, blockage
  4. A state in which it is impossible to progress; standstill, paralysis
  5. (economics) freeze (of pay, etc.)
  6. lockdown
  7. (computing) crash
  8. (pathology) failure, arrest
About Foreign Word of the Day • Archive • Nominate a word • Leave feedback
Coronavirus pandemic

30

31

Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
महामारी • (mahāmārī) noun
  1. 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
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia