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

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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
psynek noun
  1. (neologism, colloquial) dog-son (dog, treated as if a son of the owner)
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Foreign word of the day  in Sranan Tongo
no kosi kaiman mama fosi yu abra liba proverb
  1. don't insult people who might hurt your interests; don't self-sabotage
  2. don't count your chickens before they're hatched
    (literally, “don't curse the caiman's mother before you've crossed the river”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Persian
وخیم • (vaxim) adjective
  1. perilous, dangerous (especially of health)
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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
tẩm bổ verb
  1. to improve one's general health (such as after recovery from disease, during pregnancy, in old age…), usually by eating especially nutritious food
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Vielfraß noun
  1. glutton (person who eats a lot)
  2. wolverine, glutton (Gulo gulo)
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
brūgāria noun
  1. (early mediaeval Latin) heather, heath
  2. (early mediaeval Latin) heath, heathland
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
सँभालना • (sambhālnā) verb
  1. to support, to sustain; to hold up
  2. to hold; not to let go
  3. to keep in place; to adjust (clothing)
  4. to assist, to help
  5. to maintain
  6. to take care of, to look after
  7. to manage
  8. to restrain, to check, to curb
  9. to correct (a child); to punish
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Foreign word of the day  in Finnish
diskuteerata verb
  1. (jocular, intransitive, Swedish politics) to discuss at length; to delay the political process so as to give everyone a chance to speak up
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Foreign word of the day  in Gothic
𐍃𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌵𐌰 • (saggqa) noun
  1. (hapax legomenon, uncountable) the west (compass point)
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
rusen verb
  1. To repel; to force away in battle.
  2. To retreat; to pull away from battle.
  3. (hunting) To turn to elude hunters or their hunting dogs.
  4. (rare) To drop; to fall down.
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Foreign word of the day  in Kildin Sami
ёӈхаһтӭ (joŋxaht’e) verb
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
ῥᾰγᾰ́ς • (rhagás) noun
  1. fissure in soil, chink, crevice
  2. crack or chap of the skin
  3. (pathology) fistula and haemorrhoids
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
biascicare verb
  1. to eat slowly and loudly
  2. to mumble
  3. to say indistinctly; to slur
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
收音 (shōuyīn) noun, verb
  1. (noun) radio reception
  2. (noun) acoustics (of an auditorium, of a microphone etc.)
  3. (noun, film) location sound-recording
  4. (noun) ending of a word or syllable (in vocal training or linguistics)
  5. (verb) to receive a radio signal
  6. (verb) to make an audio recording
  7. (verb) to have good acoustics (of an auditorium, etc.)
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Foreign word of the day  in Mozarabic
نخت (nuxti) noun
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
suikertaart noun
  1. a pie with a filling and topping of (caramelised) sugar, typical of Belgian cuisine
  2. (pejorative) a hideously opulent building
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Polish
kłobuk noun
  1. hat (head covering)
  2. (in the plural) water bubbles
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Foreign word of the day  in Zhuang
haeuxyangz noun
  1. corn, maize
  2. (dialectal) sorghum
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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
banzo noun, adjective
  1. (noun) deep depression, intense nostalgia
  2. (adjective, Brazil) sad, thoughtful
  3. (noun) flange; rung (of a ladder etc)
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Foreign word of the day  in Old Khmer
បុណ្យ (puṇya) noun
  1. goodness
  2. virtue
  3. merit
  4. good deed or work
  5. pious act calculated to make merit
  6. endowment or foundation made for a religious purpose
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
заско́к • (zaskók) noun
  1. bounce, jump, hop
  2. quick visit
  3. (colloquial) oddity, eccentricity, peculiar habit
  4. (colloquial, politics) deviation, (extreme) position
  5. (colloquial) lapse (e.g. in one's memory, reason, or attention), absent-mindedness, blackout
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Foreign word of the day  in Urdu
کَالی جُمِعْرَات • (kālī jumi'rāt) noun
  1. a Greek calends; the first of never (literally “a black Thursday”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Norwegian Bokmål
lærbrynje noun
  1. a leather armour for the upper body, sometimes combined with flexible metal armour
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