Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2017/March

This is the March archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2017.

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Foreign word of the day  in Portuguese
nefelibata m or f, noun and adjective daydreamer (literature) writer who does not follow the usual conventions related to daydreaming (literature) unconventional, unorthodox
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Foreign word of the day  in Gothic
𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿𐌲𐌴𐌹𐍂𐍉 • (faihugeirō) f, noun covetousness, greed
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Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
وَصِيَّة • (waṣiyya) f, noun will, bequest commandment, ordinance
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Foreign word of the day  in Dutch
poldermodel n, noun a form of economic decision making by consensus
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
桃花運 (táohuāyùn) noun (figuratively, especially of a man) luck in love affairs (literally, peach-blossom luck)
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Halbwissen n, noun (deprecative) superficial knowledge
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Foreign word of the day  in Classical Nahuatl
tlahtoāni anim, noun A ruler, especially of an altepetl (city-state), similar to a king or emperor.
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Foreign word of the day  in Esperanto
scivola adjective curious, inquisitive
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
ไข้ใจ • (kâi-jai) noun (idiomatic) heartache, heartsickness (literally, "mental fever")
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
αἴθαλος • (aíthalos) m, noun smoky flame, black smoke, soot, cinder
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Foreign word of the day  in Tzotzil
boch noun container made out of a gourd or calabash
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Foreign word of the day  in Alemannic German
alee interjection come on, let's go
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Foreign word of the day  in Lithuanian
knygnešỹs m, noun book distributor (historical) book smuggler
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Foreign word of the day  in Hebrew
חָרָה • (khará) verb (Biblical Hebrew) to be angry (Biblical Hebrew) to be burned
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Foreign word of the day  in Welsh
yr euog a ffy heb neb yn ei erlid proverb the lady doth protest too much (literally, "the guilty one flees without anyone pursuing him")
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
adiafa f, noun A gift or refreshment given to sailors upon their return to port from a voyage.
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
versicolore adjective (literary) having different colours, varicoloured
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Foreign word of the day  in Greek
ξένα • (xéna) n pl, noun (colloquial) foreign lands
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Foreign word of the day  in Czech
hrst f, noun human palm bent into the shape of a bowl or grasping something handful (the amount a hand will grasp or contain) a little or a few
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Foreign word of the day  in Old High German
ubargang m, noun doom, ruin digression, divergence
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Foreign word of the day  in Sanskrit
संस्कृत • (saṃ-skṛtá) adjective and noun constructed, well or completely formed refined, adorned, ornamented, polished m a learned man m a word formed by regular derivation n sacred usage or custom n Sanskrit language
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
palmer noun A pilgrim who has been to the Holy Land. (by extension) Any pilgrim or crusader.
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Foreign word of the day  in Swahili
endapo conjunction if it should happen, supposing that it happens
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