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This is the May archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2023.

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Foreign word of the day  in Bengali
দাবদাহ • (dabdaho) noun
  1. forest fire (or its heat)
  2. (by extension) heatwave
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
teli noun
  1. floe, ice raft
  2. boulder of ice
  3. frozen block of earth
  4. (railroading, road transport, aviation) bogie
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
poner de relieve verb
  1. (transitive) to highlight
  2. (transitive) to put​/​throw something into (sharp​/​stark) relief
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
鐵馬 / 铁马 (tiěmǎ) noun
  1. (literary) armoured warhorse
  2. (literary, figurative) valiant cavalry
  3. (literary) metal chimes hanging from eaves
  4. (chiefly Taiwan, Malaysia, dated in Xiamen, Quanzhou) bicycle
  5. (chiefly Cantonese) mills barrier; crowd control barrier
  6. (Hong Kong) police motorbike
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
धूम्रपान • (dhūmrapān) noun
  1. smoking (literally “smoke-drinking”)
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Maulheld noun
  1. (pejorative, informal) bragger, loudmouth
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
รวมหัว • (ruuam-hǔua) verb
  1. to act or work together (usually for something bad)
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Foreign word of the day  in Azerbaijani
öndər noun
  1. (poetic, high-style) leader
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Heydar Aliyev was born on this date a century ago.

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Foreign word of the day  in French
râtelier noun
  1. hayrack; rack (for tools etc.)
  2. (colloquial) false teeth, dentures
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
στέφω • (stéphō) verb
  1. to put around
  2. to encircle, to crown, to wreath, to garland
  3. to honour with libations
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Foreign word of the day  in Gothic
𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌿𐌽𐍃 • (urruns) noun
  1. rise (of a celestial body: to appear to move from behind the horizon) (particularly of the Sun)
  2. (by extension, uncountable) the east (compass point)
  3. toilet, latrine (fixture used for urination and defecation)
  4. (hapax legomenon) departure (death)
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
cuống noun, adjective
  1. (noun) petiole
  2. (noun) cord connecting organs or tissue
  3. (adjective) clumsy due to haste, panic, or other great emotion
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Foreign word of the day  in Persian
شاهد • (šâhed) noun, adjective
  1. (noun) witness; eyewitness; testifier
  2. (noun) example; exemplary quotation
  3. (noun, archaic) beauty; beautiful person; the beloved (so beautiful that their physical beauty illuminates or "testifies" to the beauty of God)
  4. (adjective, obsolete) beautiful, pleasant
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
verpretparkiseren verb
  1. (ergative, figurative, derogatory) to turn into an amusement park
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Foreign word of the day  in Sudanese Arabic
دردق • (dardag) verb
  1. (transitive) to trundle, to roll
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
reciprocicornis adjective
  1. (hapax legomenon) with horns curved backwards
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
жу́пел • (žúpel) noun
  1. (Biblical) brimstone
  2. (figurative) bogeyman, bête noire (something frightening or unpleasant, or something used to frighten)
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Foreign word of the day  in Ukrainian
строкови́к • (strokovýk) noun
  1. (obsolete) fixed-term labourer, hired labourer
  2. (military) conscript, fixed-term conscript
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
弾ける • (hajikeru) verb
  1. (of a container) to burst; to break from internal pressure
  2. (often figurative) to disperse/scatter with a burst
  3. to have fun; to party
  4. to go public; to be revealed
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Prussian
wobsdus noun
  1. badger (animal)
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
bigode noun
  1. moustache
  2. (usually in the plural) whisker (long projecting hair at the sides of the mouth of a cat)
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
طَابُور • (ṭābūr) noun
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Foreign word of the day  in Korean
넌지시 • (neonjisi) adverb
  1. (of speech, of a look, etc.) discreetly, implicitly
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