Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2023/October

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

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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
คนมีสี • (kon-mii-sǐi) noun
  1. (slang) public servant, especially one who has a uniform, such as a police or military officer (literally “person with colours”, referring to the colours of a uniform)
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
dlaczemu pronoun
  1. (humorous, ironic) why, how come
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Foreign word of the day  in German
zwischen Tür und Angel adv
  1. (idiomatic) while standing; while in a hurry; in passing; in a situation where one does not have or take the time to do something properly
  2. accidentally
    (literally, “between the door and the hinge”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Punjabi
اَلْلٰہ وَلّوں • (alláh valloṉ) adverb
  1. (idiomatic) coincidentally
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Foreign word of the day  in Sranan Tongo
akata noun
  1. cotton headpad for carrying loads
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Foreign word of the day  in Armenian
տասնմեկ մետրանոց • (tasnmek metranocʿ) noun
  1. (football) penalty kick
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Foreign word of the day  in Old English
ēagþȳrel noun
  1. window (literally, “eye-hole”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
愛睏藥仔 / 爱困药仔 (ài-khùn-io̍h-á) noun
  1. (Taiwanese Hokkien, pharmaceutical drug) sleeping pill; hypnotic
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Foreign word of the day  in French
dingue adjective
  1. (slang) mad, crazy, nuts
  2. (colloquial) incredible, unbelievable
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Foreign word of the day  in Irish
buachaill noun
  1. boy; young, unmarried man; lad
  2. boyfriend
  3. herdsman
  4. servant, male employee
  5. useful thing (referring to a masculine noun)
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
trúc mai noun
  1. (archaic, literary, figurative) an intimate bond (literally, “bamboo and plum”, after a Chinese poem)
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
estrolomia noun
  1. (archaic) astronomy
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Foreign word of the day  in Albanian
xhuxhmaxhuxh noun, adjective
  1. (noun, folklore) dwarf, gnome
  2. (noun) short-legged person, shorty, midget
  3. (adjective) short, short-legged
    (derived from a phrase meaning “Gog and Magog” that was influenced by a word for dwarf)
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Foreign word of the day  in Hungarian
csőr noun
  1. beak (rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird’s face, used for eating)
  2. spout, nozzle (protruding tube or lip whose purpose is to direct the flow of a liquid)
  3. (slang, mildly offensive) piehole, trap (a person’s mouth, especially in relation to talking)
    (a blend of words meaning “tube” and “nose”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
अनुलोम • (anuloma) adjective
  1. regular; in order (following an appropriate sequence); successive
  2. (by extension) favourable; agreeable
    (literally “in the direction of hair growth”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Sranan Tongo
dyonko verb, noun
  1. (verb) to slumber, to doze off, to nod off, to drowse
  2. (noun, slang) a joint, a marijuana cigarette
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
آس • (ʔās) noun
  1. myrtle (Myrtus gen. et spp.)
  2. ace (card games, dice games, etc.)
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
diagonaaltje noun
  1. (Netherlands, informal) One of every snack in a snackmuur (type of vending machine containing mostly deep-fried snacks), generally starting from the topmost row of the leftmost column and moving diagonally downwards towards the bottom right.
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
cornupeta adjective
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Foreign word of the day  in Japanese
狐火 • (kitsunebi) noun
  1. a mysterious pale fire often seen in the fields and mountains at night from winter to early spring: will o' the wisp, foxfire
  2. kabuki props designed to imitate will o' the wisps
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