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Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2024/September

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

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Foreign word of the day  in Vietnamese
tên cúng cơm noun
  1. (informal) posthumous name
  2. (proscribed) home name, child's nickname used in the household
  3. (proscribed) official name, birth name
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Foreign word of the day  in Persian
سر و برگ • (sar o barg) noun
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Foreign word of the day  in Polish
moralność Kalego noun
  1. (derogatory, idiom, literary) double standard (way of judging the same behavior as good when the speaker does it but as bad when the perpetrator is someone else)
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Foreign word of the day  in German
Achtungserfolg noun
  1. an instance of relative success that garners respect (e.g. by exceeding expectations) despite the primary aim not being achieved
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Foreign word of the day  in Fala
dedais de bruja noun
  1. (Valverdeñu) foxglove (especially mullein foxglove and common foxglove) (literally, “witch's thimbles”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Persian
گاوسار • (gâvsâr) noun
  1. (historical) mace adorned with the head of an ox
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Foreign word of the day  in French
vinasse noun
  1. (chemistry) vinasse
  2. (informal, derogatory) plonk (poor-quality, bad-tasting wine)
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Foreign word of the day  in Hindi
होड़ी • (hoṛī) noun
  1. (regional) a small flat-bottomed boat (made of a hollowed tree)
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Foreign word of the day  in Middle English
bachelrie noun
  1. (countable) a group of knights or squires
  2. (uncountable) chivalry; knighthood
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Foreign word of the day  in Latin
fīcātum noun
  1. liver, from an animal fattened on figs
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Foreign word of the day  in Kashubian
mòjn interjection
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Foreign word of the day  in Thai
ลงถนน • (long-tà-nǒn) verb
  1. (intransitive) to take to the streets (for a protest)
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Foreign word of the day  in Russian
бесе́дка • (besédka) noun
  1. arbor, gazebo, pavilion (a shady place for sitting)
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Foreign word of the day  in Sranan Tongo
abo noun
  1. (obsolete) millet
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Foreign word of the day  in Punjabi
نِگّھ • (niggh) noun
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Foreign word of the day  in Chinese
完璧歸趙 / 完璧归赵 (wánbìguīzhào) idiom
  1. to return something to its owner in good condition (literally, “to return the jade disc intact to the State of Zhao”)
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Foreign word of the day  in Ancient Greek
πῠρέσσω • (puréssō) verb
  1. to be feverish, to have a fever
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Foreign word of the day  in Spanish
lozano adjective
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Foreign word of the day  in Italian
corsivo adjective, noun
  1. (adjective, obsolete, also figurative) running; flowing
  2. (adjective, obsolete, very rare) current, valid (of currency)
  3. (adjective) cursive (of writing)
  4. (adjective, typography) italic
  5. (noun) cursive script
  6. (noun, typography, uncountable) italics
  7. (noun, journalism) commentary, editorial
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