Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2024/December

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This is the December archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2024.

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Foreign word of the day  in Persian
اقدس • (aqdas) adjective
  1. (only in fixed expressions) holy, holiest
  2. (historical) Used as an honorific adjective for monarchs.
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Foreign word of the day  in Swahili
kwa shingo upande adverb
  1. (idiomatic) reluctantly (literally, “with the neck aside”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
namięta noun
  1. (Middle Polish) intense feeling
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
حَزَاء • (ḥazāʔ) noun
  1. (rare, in post-classical Arabic only Bedouin Arabic) common rue (Ruta graveolens)
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
a ultranza adverb
  1. (idiomatic) to the extreme; to the utmost
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Foreign word of the day  in Tagalog
siyokoy noun
  1. (folklore) siyokoy; merman (especially the Philippine version)
  2. (linguistics) siyokoy, a pseudo-loan or hybrid word seemingly derived from both English and Spanish; a pseudo-Hispanism
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Foreign word of the day  in Estonian
pühapäevakool noun
  1. (religion) Sunday school (a school, usually operating on Sundays, providing children with religious education)
  2. a school that teaches children of ethnic minorities in Estonia their language, customs and culture
  3. (historical) a school in the Russian Empire where adults were taught to read
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
ขานขันหมาก • (kǎan-kǎn-màak) verb
  1. (idiomatic and archaic) to announce the name, rank, title, and/or position of a public officer who arrives at an audience with a monarch (literally, “to call out the paan bowl used as an emblem of a noble person”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Romanian
face ca trenul verb
  1. (idiomatic, colloquial) to go ballistic, to blow a fuse (to lose one’s temper) (literally, “to make like a train”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Irish
cummae noun, adjective, adverb
  1. (noun) cutting, butchering, maiming
  2. (noun) shape, form, appearance
  3. (adjective) similar, alike (with fri or ocus)
  4. (adverb) equally, in the same way
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
kelirikko (literally, "breakage in the weather on the ground") noun
  1. mud season
  2. road damage caused by a mud season
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
lưu cầu noun
  1. (obsolete) jade-inlaid sword (literally, “Ryukyu”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Esperanto
melono noun, proper noun
  1. (noun) melon
  2. (proper noun, humorous, slang) the Esperanto jubilee symbol, consisting of a Latin E and Cyrillic Э
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Foreign word of the day  in Silesian
bednŏrka noun
  1. slat of a barrel or other wooden object
  2. cooperage (art or trade of a cooper)
  3. cooper's wife
  4. (archaic, chiefly in the plural) ski made of barrel stave
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Foreign word of the day  in Punjabi
رَولا • (raulā / rauḷā) noun
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Foreign word of the day  in Fala
galu de campu noun
  1. hoopoe (especially the Eurasian hoopoe) (literally, “wild rooster”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Ingrian
jalkamuna noun
  1. malleolus (protuberance on either side of an ankle) (literally, “foot egg”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Jeju
ᄀᆞ슬 (gawseul) noun
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Winter solstice, the end of autumn

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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
rabanada noun
  1. a kind of French toast, prepared as dessert during the Christmas period
  2. blast; gust (strong, abrupt rush of wind)
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Uchte noun
  1. (regional, chiefly Westphalia) midnight mass or early morning mass (at Christmas and Easter)
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Foreign word of the day  in Swedish
halmbock noun
  1. a goat made out of straw, a common Christmas decoration
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
घराना • (gharānā) noun
  1. family, household
  2. lineage, dynasty, house
  3. gharana (lineage-based school of music or dance)
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