Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2021/April

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

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Foreign word of the day  in Danish
undersættelse noun
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April Fools' Day

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Foreign word of the day  in Greek
τζιν • (tzin) noun
  1. gin (alcoholic drink)
  2. denim
  3. jeans
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
गिलास • (gilās) noun
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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
húsvét noun
  1. Easter (literally, “meat-taking”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Afrikaans
fliek noun
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
xanh adjective, noun
  1. (adjective) green or blue; grue
  2. (adjective, of a complexion) green (sickly, unwell)
  3. (adjective, of fruit) green (unripe)
  4. (noun) wok
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
ガンプラ • (ganpura) noun
  1. a plastic model of a Gundam robot; a Gunpla (short for ガンダムプラモデル (Gandamu puramoderu))
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Mobile Suit Gundam, the first series in the Gundam franchise, first aired on this day in 1979

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Foreign word of the day  in Serbo-Croatian
sȁč / са̏ч noun
  1. iron pan for baking bread
  2. (Dalmatia, Bosnia) woad (plant and dye)
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Foreign word of the day  in Alemannic German
rüüdig adjective, adverb
  1. (adverb, Lucerne, Sense) very, really, super
  2. (adjective, obsolete) mangy
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
แก้วตาดวงใจ • (gɛ̂ɛo-dtaa-duuang-jai) noun
  1. apple of someone's eye (object of affection)
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
тян • (tjan) noun
  1. (slang) girl, young woman
  2. (slang) one's female romantic partner, generally young and attractive; one's girlfriend
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
calhar verb
  1. to fit into
  2. to occur; to happen
  3. to fall (to occur on a certain date)
  4. to agree with; to match
  5. to be appropriate; to be convenient
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Foreign word of the day  in Tigrinya
ዕርዲ • (ʿərdi) noun
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
عَلْقَم • (ʿalqam) noun
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Armenian
ջղջ • (ǰłǰ) noun
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
buitenboordbeugel noun
  1. orthodontic headgear (literally, “outboard braces”)
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Foreign word of the day  in French
beu noun
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4/20 Day

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Foreign word of the day  in Korean
남남북녀 • (namnambungnyeo) noun
  1. (historical) in dynastic Korea, the notion that the most competent men are from the southernmost provinces and that the most beautiful women are from the northernmost provinces
  2. (modern) the stereotype that South Korean men are more handsome than North Korean men and that North Korean women are more beautiful than South Korean women
  3. (modern) a South Korean man and a North Korean woman
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Foreign word of the day  in Czech
kanón noun
  1. (colloquial) cannon
  2. (military) a kind of cannon with a long strong barrel
  3. (colloquial, complimentary) a very competent person
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
loísmo noun
  1. The nonstandard practice of using lo or la as indirect object pronouns when referring to people, instead of the standard le.
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Foreign word of the day  in Persian
چربی • (čarbi) noun
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Foreign word of the day  in Egyptian
Ad
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(ꜣd) verb
  1. (intransitive, chiefly of crocodiles) to be(come) aggressive or savage
  2. (intransitive) to be(come) angry (+ r: with, toward, + ḥr: at)
  3. (intransitive) to be(come) aggressively eager or rapacious, to raven (+ r: to be rapacious for, to raven after)
  4. (transitive) to rage at, to be(come) aggressive toward or attack (someone)
  5. (transitive, of fire) to harm (someone)
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
化腐朽為神奇 / 化腐朽为神奇 (huà fǔxiǔ wéi shénqí) idiom
  1. to find a new use for something that has been discarded; to make a silk purse of a sow's ear
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Foreign word of the day  in Azerbaijani
oturub-durmaq verb
  1. to associate, to consort
  2. to dance to someone's tune, to live and die by someone's word, to obey or follow every instruction from someone, to follow someone's guidance rather than taking independent decisions
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Foreign word of the day  in German
mein Name ist Hase phrase
  1. I know nothing; I am not involved (literally: my name is Hase)
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Victor Hase died on this date in 1860
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