Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2025/February

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, humorous) long face

1. a classic (person or thing)
2. (sports, originally cycling) a sports classic, a traditional match
   1. (Netherlands, soccer) a match between the football clubs Ajax and Feyenoord

1. ease of pronunciation, economy of effort in pronunciation (literally, “mouth's comfort”)

1. nostalgic memory, remembrance

1. to be peeled, to be stripped (of skin, peel, etc.)
2. to toil

1. (military) aiguillette

1. mosquito net

1. numbness, paralysis
2. electric shock
3. (by extension) electricity

1. sweatshop (literally “hell factory”)

1. (Spain) a town that displays pictograms at the entrance of buildings, businesses, and monuments

2. to take captive, to captivate

𐩪𐩨𐩺 (s¹by /šabyum/) noun

1. taking captive
2. captives

1. the meat of sheep or a piece of it; mutton
2. a sheep (of either gender) or its corpse
3. an Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb
4. (rare) the astrological sign Aries

1. butterfly
2. (figurative) elegantly-dressed woman
3. common rue (Ruta graveolens)

1. a harmonious married couple can achieve pretty much anything

literally, “if husband and wife are in harmony, they can bail all the water out of the South China Sea”

1. (noun) bridge (over a river)
2. (noun) roundworm
3. (verb) to get drained

1. pole of a chariot or car
2. log or block of wood for fuel
3. (astronomy) trail of a shooting star

1. barracks

1. (invariable, Brazil, informal) generally good, positive

1. overnighter (one who stays overnight)
2. one who stays overnight in a doss-house

1. (archaic) crown, diadem
2. (military, Iran) officer

1. luggage; tools (items carried around e.g. when travelling)
2. (deprecative) stuff
3. (deprecative) belongings

1. enclosure, pen, fold
2. (by extension) hut, dwelling
3. crib

1. sleeveless (of clothing)

1. (colloquial, idiomatic, literally, “mom and dad”) hard liquor, typically vodka, mixed with either juice or syrup

1. l'esprit de l'escalier, staircase wit

1. property, possessions
2. wealth, riches
3. money

1. (obsolete) farmer, tiller, cultivator of land

1. to stay, to remain
2. to wait
3. to resist, to withstand
4. to cease, to stop