Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2024/August

1. (colloquial, derogatory) naive calculation, counting the chickens before they're hatched

1. (adjective) in ruins, dilapidated
2. (adjective) ancient
3. (noun) ruin (ie. ruins of a building)
4. (noun, by extension, figuratively, pejorative) a house
5. (noun) ruins; or the signs of a ruin (ie. giant ruins of a town)
6. (noun, agriculture) barren land
7. (noun) pit; hole; lair

1. (archaic, of royals) to die (literally “to reach the abode of the brave”)

1. (Canada, United States) to use

1. (transitive, literally) to hold in place (especially by means of a clamp, vice, etc.)
2. (transitive, figuratively) to grip, paralyse (especially with fear)

1. to run away, to flee
2. (colloquial) to japa; to emigrate from a country, typically for better pay or working conditions

1. (historical, literally) gravedigger
2. (colloquial, derogatory, figuratively) lowlife, lout, scoundrel (untrustworthy, despicable or disreputable person)

1. graduate (person recognized by a university to have completed a degree)

1. true cicada (any cicada of the family Cicadidae) (literally, “six hour”)

1. (historical) Portuguese Guiana (the former name of the Brazilian state of Amapá during the colonial period)

1. to pick berries

1. the herding of horses during the night

1. (adjective) bodily, corporal, physical
2. (adjective, rare) made of bones
3. (adjective) incorporate, embodied
4. (noun) bodily constitution; physical makeup
5. (noun) anatomy; science of the body
6. (noun) faeces, excrement
7. (noun) the embodied soul or spirit

1. fit for placing, apposite
2. concerning adoption
3. belonging to a thesis, disputable
4. positive, affirmative
5. (grammar) positive
6. arbitrary

1. map (literally, “earth image”)

1. CEO or director of a company
2. neglectful disuse; falling out of use or notice (often without having accomplished much)
3. sandy field (especially at a beach)

1. lye, alkaline solution; detergent
2. laundry

1. armpit

1. town, city (settlement)
2. town, city (people living in town, city)
3. city walls
4. garden, park
   

градъ (gradŭ) noun

1. (meteorology) hail (balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation)

1. stranger, outlander
2. foreign settler
3. outlaw, exile, wanderer
4. pilgrim

1. (obsolete) milk-white

1. dry flour spread under and over dough when rolling it (to prevent sticking)
2. (figurative) an expense additional to what has been necessarily incurred

1. (sports) pentathlon

1. abbey
2. (figurative) abundance; well-being

1. real, actual (actually existing, functioning, corresponding to reality)
2. real, true, genuine (corresponding to the typical nature of a phenomenon or other thing, giving measure in all respects)

1. (obsolete) wine bottle with a long neck (literally, “little stork”)

1. (adjective) bright (of a color)
2. (adjective) of striking and bright colors (the clothes)
3. (noun) person who wears clothes of striking and bright colors
4. (noun) unserious cheerful person, goofball

1. (Cantonese, formal, sometimes proscribed) and

1. sheepskin coat
2. leather or twill cotton-paddded jacket
3. (dialectal) fur, hide
4. (dialectal) maize/corn husk

1. air, breath, breathing
2. light breeze
3. spirit, ghost
4. mind
5. energy; courage
6. pride, haughtiness, arrogance

1. (dated) swift, fleet
2. (relational) borzoi
3. (colloquial) cheeky, insolent