Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2021/December

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

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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
медве́дь • (medvédʹ) noun
  1. bear (literally, “honey eater”)
  2. (informal) any bear-like animal
  3. (finance) bear (on a stock market)
  4. (figuratively) large and clumsy person
  5. (criminal slang) safe
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
企鵝 / 企鹅 (qǐ'é, qì'é) noun
  1. penguin (literally, “standing goose”)
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Foreign word of the day  in French
chauve-souris noun
  1. bat (literally, “bald mouse”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Greek
σκαντζόχοιρος • (skantzóchoiros) noun
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Foreign word of the day  in Bashkir
ташбаҡа • (tašbaqa) noun
  1. turtle; tortoise (literally, “stone frog”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Icelandic
nashyrningur noun
  1. rhinoceros (literally, “nose horn”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
mysikrólik noun
  1. goldcrest (Regulus regulus) (literally and etymologically “minuscule king”; superficially analysable as “mousy rabbit”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
أَرْمَلَ • (ʾarmala) verb
  1. to become sandy, to have sand upon oneself or cling to the sand
  2. to have exhausted one’s provisions
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
nauscō verb
  1. (of beans) to open in the shape of a ship
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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
történet noun
  1. story, tale (sequence of real or fictional events)
  2. history (a record or narrative description, an aggregate of past events); (rare) writing of history, historiography; (archaic) history (branch of knowledge that studies the past)
  3. (slang) thing, thingy, gizmo, contraption
  4. (archaic) chance (random occurrence)
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
आहट • (āhaṭ) noun
  1. sound, quiet noise (of which the source is unknown; usually of footsteps)
  2. (figuratively) premonition
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Foreign word of the day  in Esperanto
esperantiĝi verb
  1. (intransitive) to become an Esperantist
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
dormiveglia noun
  1. (literary) state of between being awake and asleep at the same time; light sleep; halfsleep
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
ζεύγνῡμῐ • (zeúgnūmi) verb
  1. (active) to yoke, to saddle, to bridle (a beast of burden)
  2. (middle) to have one's beasts yoked
  3. to fasten tightly
  4. to join in wedlock
  5. (active or middle) to build a bridge from bank to bank, to bridge
  6. to furnish ships with crossbenches
  7. to pair (gladiators)
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Foreign word of the day  in Korean
앞 • (ap) noun
  1. fore, front
  2. the future; future events (especially with expressions denoting perception)
  3. earlier time (especially with expressions denoting movement)
  4. (Yukjin, otherwise obsolete) the south
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Foreign word of the day  in Welsh
hiraeth noun
  1. nostalgia, longing, homesickness, a deep feeling of yearning for something, someone or somewhere
  2. regret
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
therk adjective
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Winter solstice

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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
hoa noun, adjective
  1. (noun) flower
  2. (adjective) capital, upper-case
  3. (noun, card games) suit
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Krippenspiel noun
  1. nativity play (literally, “crib play”)
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Christmas Eve

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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
charamico noun
  1. (Dominican Republic) A decoration in the shape of a Christmas tree, made from dried branches and often painted white.
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Christmas Day

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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
麒麟 • (kirin) noun
  1. (mythological creature, Chinese mythology) a qilin
  2. (shogi) the kirin, a piece in chūshōgi and larger shogi variants
  3. a giraffe
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Polish
zażec verb
  1. (transitive) to light, to ignite
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Foreign word of the day  in Yoruba
òdo numeral, noun
  1. (numeral) zero
  2. (noun, rare) pig
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Foreign word of the day  in Harari
ምሼት (məšēt) noun
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