Real Words Without Definition
This one is a judgement call.
A foreign word used in English without ever being translated.
adelphoi is Greek for brothers. aburabozu is a Japanese fish. achtelthaler is a German coin worth an eighth of a thaler. afghanets is a Russian word for a dusty Central Asian wind.
They turn up in English books, so somebody wrote them down. They never became English words, so no dictionary lists them.
2,016 words · sorted A to Z · each with a line on why it is here
Matches the word itself, not the note beside it. Case does not matter.
| Word, sorted Z to A | Language and meaning |
|---|---|
| yomin | Aramaic, days |
| yuquilla | Spanish, a West Indian arrowroot plant |
| zabeta | Turkish, a fixed tariff or regulation |
| zaddickim | Hebrew zaddikim, righteous men |
| zambac | Arabic zambaq, the Arabian jasmine |
| zanjon | Spanish, a deep irrigation ditch |
| zanjona | Spanish, a large irrigation ditch |
| zattare | Italian zattera, a river raft |
| zibetum | Latin, civet, the secretion of the civet cat |
| zinober | German Zinnober, cinnabar or vermilion |
| zinsang | Javanese, the delundung or banded linsang |
| zitzit | Hebrew, tzitzit, the ritual fringes |
| zitzith | Hebrew, tzitzith, the ritual fringes |
| zonnar | Turkish and Arabic zunnar, girdle of non-Muslims |
| zugtierlast | German, draft-animal load |
| zugtierlaster | German, draft-animal haulage or carrier |
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