Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2022/January

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This is the January archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2022.

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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
uvas de la suerte noun
  1. Twelve grapes that are traditionally eaten in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries as the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
วงกต (wong-gòt) proper noun, noun
  1. (proper noun, Buddhism) Vaṅkata, a mythological mountain known for having intricate paths.
  2. (noun) labyrinth; maze.
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
पाथस् (pā́thas) noun
  1. spot, place
  2. food (especially as an offering)
  3. (Classical Sanskrit) water
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
brand noun
  1. fire, flame
  2. burning wood or coal
  3. torch (lit stick)
  4. sword, blade
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
collacrimare verb
  1. (archaic, intransitive) to weep or cry together
  2. (archaic, transitive) to feel sorry for
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
رَيْحَان (rayḥān) noun
  1. (obsolete) fragrant plant, aromatic herb
  2. basil (Ocimum gen. et spp.)
  3. (Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Cyprus, Al-Andalus) myrtle (Myrtus gen. et spp.)
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
łapaczka noun
  1. little trap (small machine or other device designed to catch)
  2. little shutter, small lid
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
鐵公雞 / 铁公鸡 (tiěgōngjī) noun
  1. (xiehouyu, figurative) cheapskate; scrooge
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Foreign word of the day  in Hausa
dumɓu noun
  1. worn-out tool
  2. (figuratively) dimwit
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
подного́тный (podnogótnyj) adjective
  1. under the fingernail
  2. (figuratively) secret, hidden
  3. (figuratively) perfectly frank, brutally honest; giving the lowdown on something
  4. (figuratively) meticulous, thorough (in relation to searches, examination)
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
salisātor noun
  1. a superstitious person who takes the twitching of body parts as omen (literally, “jumper”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
エラー (erā) noun
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I am Error. Zelda II: The Adventure of Link was released in Japan on this date in 1987.

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Foreign word of the day  in Old Irish
con·meil verb
  1. to rub, to grind
  2. to consume
  3. to destroy
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Foreign word of the day  in Hebrew
דֶּקֶל (dékel) noun
  1. palm tree
  2. date (fruit)
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
ἐν πᾰρᾰβύστῳ (en parabústōi) prepositional phrase
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Foreign word of the day  in Swedish
bamba noun
  1. (dialectal, Gothenburg) school canteen
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
nhổ verb
  1. to spit, to spit out
  2. to pull out something that's planted firmly into a surface
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Foreign word of the day  in Afrikaans
veteraanmotor noun
  1. A classic car (literally, “veteran motor(car)”).
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Foreign word of the day  in Serbo-Croatian
пи̏к noun
  1. spades in card- and boardgames
  2. (childish, Croatia) used in set phrases in a certain children’s game “пик спас” to denote a safe place
  3. (archaic) place of skirmish, battleground
  4. inclination to be mean, acridity
  5. gaff, a diagonal beam on which a sail is attached
  6. peak
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Foreign word of the day  in Malay
swafoto noun
  1. (neologism) selfie
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
suksia kuuseen verb
  1. (colloquial, chiefly in the imperative) to go away, to get lost (literally, “to ski into a spruce tree”)
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Foreign word of the day  in French
controuver verb
  1. (rare, literary) to contrive
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
वनमानुष (vanmānuṣ) noun
  1. ape (literally “man of forest”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Minaean
𐩲𐩳 (ʿḍ) noun
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
chocoladebeen noun
  1. (association football) The non-dominant leg of a football player.
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Foreign word of the day  in Lithuanian
nugrybáuti verb
  1. (transitive) to pick mushrooms
  2. (intransitive) to wander, lose one's way (literally, “to get lost wandering in search of mushrooms)
  3. (intransitive, by extension) to wander, become distracted during a task
  4. (intransitive, by extension) to malfunction, go off the rails (of a device, program, etc.)
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Foreign word of the day  in Welsh
cwrw noun
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