schadenfreude/skadeglad, Pleasure from another's downfall
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Ireland has craic (pronounced like crack). It means fun, but less like a child having fun playing, more like an adult enjoying spending time with friends.
Someone can be good craic. They are fun to be around. Having craic is having a good time. "What's the craic?" Can mean "how are you?". In this context, it's more like, asking for a fun story, but it's usually rhetorical.
Good thing the Germans are awake rn. Thats where all the answers for this question lie.
Backpfeiffengesicht, a face you want to slap or is for various reasons in need of a slap
Takalluf: polite hesitation or excessive formality.
So your guests being formal or reserved are told there is no need for takalluf.
Fanaa: Used in both a spiritual and romantic sense. In Sufism, it means the annihilation of the self or ego, a total breaking free from the material world to achieve union with the divine. In romance, it implies a total surrender or losing oneself completely in the beloved.
Its very commonly used in poetry, particularly Sufi.
Also a very beautiful sound to the word. Urdu is honestly a very beautiful sounding language.
Cwtch (pronounced like your are going to say cook, but replace the k with tch. It is a welsh word, essentially meaning "to make small". Not as in shrinking, but in various instances like: A covering or shelter, the small space under the staircase, a hug or cuddle (because you are making the space between you small), and it also means when you like someone because you have a small space in your heart for them.
So the connotations are typically of being closed around and conforting.
So you'd use it in these ways:
- your boots are over in the cwtch
- come here love and give your nan a lovely cwtch
- Bryn has a cwtch for Rhiannon
I've found that this is a cousin of the word "couch" (as in the furniture) in English. Their ancestor referred to a bed or nest.
Yeah I can see how that evolved from the common influence of Latin, since romans invaded Wales. There are other Welsh words that are definitely from Latin (as was the French version.)
English - French - Welsh
Monday - Lundi - Dydd Llun
Window - fenΓͺtre - Ffenestr
ηΈεε, means two people sharing one umbrella.
ηΈεε has a strong romantic implication, stemming in part from a play on words. The first two characters are pronounced γγ (ai), the same as the word ζ (ai, βloveβ), and thus the connotation is that both people under the umbrella are in love.
How is it prononced/romanized?
γγγγγγ
Aiaigasa
From Urdu.
Jhoota: adjective referring to food, drink, or an eating utensil from which someone has already eaten or drunk.
Jhoota in other contexts means liar.
Eating jhoota is often avoided due to concepts of hygiene or social custom, although sharing is common among family/close friends.
It weird that Muslims are very preachy about breaking bread together but also have this concept.
It is of particular importance bc Muslims aren't allowed to eat from utensils that a nonmulim ate.
So its this tainted leftover food which is the precise definition ig.
KalsarikΓ€nnit
A Finnish word for getting drunk at home in your underwear with no intention of going out
UBUNTU, from Zulu.
Ubuntu is a concept in Bantu philosophy which is commonly translated as humanity or humaneness, but those are rough and don't capture the nuance.
In a bunch of SciFi stories, a robot or alien joins a group of humans. The humans are initially wary of the alien/robot, but they spend time together, bond, and realize that they're not really that different after all. A human says that, while their new friend might not be Homo sapiens, they're definitely human.
Ubuntu captures that whole concept in one word. It refers to the subtle, ineffable qualities which "make us human", as exemplified by our social bonds and how we interact with each other.
This just came up today when I was talking to me husband but Jolie Lade - unconventional beauty, someone who is beautiful without being pretty or handsome.
Portuguese:
CafunΓ©: the act of caressing someone's hair.
XodΓ³: a name for one's favorite someone (like a teacher's favorite student, a grandma's favorite grandson...)
XarΓ‘: someone who shares the same name as you.
I've never been Muslim or spoken Arabic, but I've adopted inshallah. It means hopefully or with any luck
It means "if Allah wills it", so similar to "God willing".
The English equivalent would be "God willing" and in Dutch, a lovely archaic phrase: "Zo de Heere wil en wij leven"
Arschubervollmitseifgefuhl, The feeling that you have too many bars of soap up your bum
What does that actually mean, to have too many bars up soap up your ass? Like they're overly neat freaks?
They are taking the piss, this is not a real word people would say in German.
No, just literally there's only really room up there for like 5 or 6, then you always get that unmistakable feeling... Don't worry, you'll definitely recognise it when you get there, so you can safely just keep going until then.
are you asking for loanwords in non english languages that have been borrowed from a third language, for which the concept has no direct equivalent in english, or are you asking folks to just suggest non-english words that english should adopt as loanwords?
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