Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2021/November

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

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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
ἐκχυμόω (ekkhumóō) verb
  1. to extract juice from
  2. (middle, of small veins) to shed the blood and leave it extravasated under the skin
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
dirige noun
  1. The portion of a Christian remembrance service beginning from the first antiphon in matins for the dead.
  2. The recitation or singing of the Office of the Dead to commemorate the deceased.
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
snocciolare verb
  1. to stone; to pit (to remove a fruit pit from)
  2. to rattle off; to reel off; to trot out
  3. (informal) to fork out
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Foreign word of the day  in Korean
(sok) noun
  1. the interior or inside, especially that which is underneath or within a covering
  2. stomach; insides
  3. (biology, taxonomy) a genus
  4. that which is worldly, secular, or common
  5. colloquialism
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
халту́ра (xaltúra) noun
  1. (informal, slang) yields acquired or work performed irregularly, job of imperfect compliance
    1. undeclared work, black market job, supplementary contract, moonlighting, participation in informal economy, nixer; khaltura
    2. shoddy work (something intentionally done poorly), sloppy or half-assed job; hack; a botch; a pot boiler; khaltura
  2. (regional, now largely unknown) funeral banquet, extra-treats in connection to someone being interred
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Irish
eclais noun
  1. church (institution, community or building)
  2. clergy
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
إِقْلِيل (ʾiqlīl) noun
  1. (al-Andalus, farriery) a nail fixing the iron-fitting of the hoof of a pack animal
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Foreign word of the day  in French
trucider verb
  1. (informal) to kill
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Foreign word of the day  in Welsh
gwag adjective
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Foreign word of the day  in Ido
koram preposition
  1. in the presence of, before
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
bakałarz noun
  1. (archaic) teacher
  2. (historical) a person who has achieved a bachelor's degree in a medieval university
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
उष्ट्रपक्षी (uṣṭrapakṣī) noun
  1. (literary) an ostrich (literally, “camel-bird”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Catalan
ble noun
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Kommunistenfresser noun
  1. A fanatical anticommunist (literally, “devourer of communists”).
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Joseph McCarthy was born on this day in 1908.

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Foreign word of the day  in Komi-Zyrian
чуш (čuš) noun
  1. lip of an animal
  2. muzzle for calves
  3. (derogatory) lip (of a human)
  4. (dialectal) pacifier, dummy
  5. (dialectal) salt cellar in the form of a casket
  6. (dialectal) mink (Mustela lutreola)
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
subductisupercilicarptor noun
  1. (humorous, nonce word) an overly critical person, an extremely censorious person, an eyebrow-raising fault-finder
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
第一桶金 (dì-yī tǒng jīn) noun
  1. the first pot of gold; the initial profits from an economic endeavor
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Foreign word of the day  in Norwegian Bokmål
abstinent adjective
  1. abstinent or abstaining (refraining from indulgence)
  2. experiencing withdrawal or withdrawal symptoms
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
bót noun
  1. (dated) brush (used for cleaning)
  2. (dated) police station
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Foreign word of the day  in Hebrew
בַּקְבּוּק (bakbúk) noun
  1. a bottle
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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
abrosz noun
  1. tablecloth
  2. (archaic) map
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Foreign word of the day  in Greenlandic
aaffappoq verb
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"I Am the Walrus" by The Beatles was released on this day in 1967

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Foreign word of the day  in Wutunhua
xhuiyang noun
  1. fish (literally, “water sheep”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
verslaan verb
  1. (transitive) to defeat
  2. (transitive) to report on
  3. (transitive, dated, dialectal) to destroy, to fell
  4. (transitive, dated, dialectal) to beat to death; to kill
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Foreign word of the day  in Czech
letět verb
  1. to fly
  2. (colloquial) to be in fashion
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
舐める (nameru) verb
  1. to lick
  2. (of a flame) to lick
  3. to taste
  4. to experience hardship
  5. to underestimate, to make light of
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