Wiktionary:Requested entries (Unknown language, Latin script)

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The most common words used in but not defined by Wiktionary are probably words to be added; language can usually be determined from context. See Spell check/likely misspellings.

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 * Various Christmas biscuits/cakes mentioned at : Bredala, Bredle or Winachtsbredele; anisbredela; butterbredle; schwowebredle; spritzbredle. These words might be French, Alsatian, or some form of German. Equinox ◑ 16:24, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
 * 3C: "an abbreviation often used in Taiwan for computer, communication, and consumer electronics"
 * 🇨🇬 - Frankish, apparently
 * 🇨🇬 - Frankish, apparently
 * 🇨🇬 - Frankish, apparently
 * 🇨🇬 - Frankish, apparently

a, A

 * afernan: a plant, Euphorbia balsamifera
 * Berber/Kabyle
 * adila – beestings, as seen in this tweet from an African tweeter
 * angulero: a Basque eel fisherman?
 * arap - some Kenyan language, common in names like Daniel arap Moi, probably means "son" or "from". Several names mentioned in Kericho.
 * It's 🇨🇬. I don't feel comfortable enough with that language to create an entry, however. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 08:13, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * arsenillo: appar an old Chilean name for powdered atacamite used as a pounce to dry wet ink.
 * asaa - miracle fruit in Twi, which we subsume under Akan, but I can't find any good references to be sure it's right. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 02:02, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
 * abain = noun, (in Mbesa, Kom, and Oku), meaning corn fufu
 * åma - apparently "Nilandian", unclear what language that is; see 🇨🇬
 * avisance - the name for "pigs in a blanket" in Namur in Belgium. Presumably French or Walloon.

b, B

 * balaua - Itneg/Tinggian for "spirit house"; I'm waiting for the RFM on this language to end before creating an entry.
 * bannerus
 * biclinium There is an entry in the French Wiktionary.

c, C

 * churva - used in Philippines, so maybe Tagalog or Cebuano
 * calcepistare - Latin or Italian (cp., )? (It also occurs in .)
 * In that reference it is used as a possible older form of the modern . It is not found in any Italian dictionary. I suspect this is a false etymology. --Cryptex (talk) 18:43, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * casiloco (also knows as cassies) not sure if it is spelt correctly. a type of music. want to know what types of music casilocos are.
 * cham apparently used in English in Malaysia for a drink of tea and coffee mixed together, comes from Hokkien
 * kopi cham,
 * if used in English: WT:Requested entries (English)
 * chlupatej, khlupatey: "Czechia", derog slang for police? (moved here from that police slang appendix)
 * campaigne - Old Northern French or Old Picard
 * Czirbusz - surname. It looks Polish, but there's a mathematician named Sándor, which is Hungarian.
 * Czipo - a surname
 * Czipo - a surname

d, D

 * django - a Romany term, meaning "I awake". Specific Romany Dialect unsure.

e, E

 * empango: Ugandan coronation anniversary ceremony? See
 * Elghareeb - a surname

f, F

 * Fasnat / Faschnat: see
 * frietkot and fritkot: something like a chip shop; one or both words might be Belgian French.
 * This is Flemish/Belgian Dutch; Northern Dutch frietkraam. --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 14:36, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * flavipulpa

g, G

 * Goormaghtigh — surname. Given names John, René, Maryam, Leyla. René was Belgian, but the surname doesn't look French or Dutch, so I suspect an import from Persian or something.
 * Both parts of the name look like they could be derived from Dutch goor and machtig ? --Azertus (talk) 14:47, 30 August 2023 (UTC)


 * , - It's Gaulish (there's no request page for it, so I'll just put it here) - see 🇨🇬
 * Gurumani - name.

h, H

 * Hörne
 * (type of alpaca?)
 * (motto of Jayapura)
 * (motto of Jayapura)
 * (motto of Jayapura)

i, I

 * irok* in some Philippines language: sugar palm, same as kaong
 * Inchauspe - A family name, possibly from the Basque region of France
 * Ischnura - A genus of damselflies named for ἰσχνός + οὐρά (Charpentier, 1840 )

j, J

 * Jelica, Jellica: girl's name? possibly Philippines
 * jumfru, Jumfru? old (Swedish) unit of measure, possibly for beverages? Word may exist capped in German too.

k, K

 * Karálek/karálek? - mentioned in the Wikipedia article for Greenlandic Norse
 * ĸavdlunâĸ - from an Inuit language
 * kende (or kündü). English or Hungarian or maybe Old Hungarian?
 * kibbel kabbel Germanic? A game similar to kennetjie. Andrew massyn 19:44, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Dutch kibbelen: to argue, to quibble, kabbelen to murmur as a little creek or stream? nl:Gebruiker:Jcwf
 * Should probably be Kibbel Kabbel, it refers to a game called pee wee, like a children's version of cricket. Jamesjiao → T ◊ C 02:16, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * kinilnat: Filipino salad; see
 * Kirilka: a female name, possibly Croatian? Bulgarian?
 * kopejek: old currency unit
 * kusha - from the song Kusha Las Payas by Andalusian-Spanish pop group Las Ketchup, word doesn't seem Spanish.
 * k.t.l. = kai ta loipa (και τα λοιπα): Greek abbreviation for "and the rest": however, the use of Latin script here seems strange
 * kuljanka - a line of Eastern European food products from Lidl, unclear if it's an actual word from a real language
 * köp-ür- - see 🇨🇬
 * küp- - Tatar, but there's no request page for it. See 🇨🇬
 * кӑпӑк - Chuvash, but there's no request page for it. See 🇨🇬

l, L

 * lebrancho: some kind of marine fish
 * ledidi - miracle berry in Ewe, but I can't find a reliable reference
 * lešiy: Slavic satyr-like creature?
 * This is a romanization of Russian леший (different from the one we use here), found mostly in English texts discussing Slavic mythology. Maybe addable as an alt form of leshy given how common it is. AFAICT the other Slavic languages have different orthographies for this, so this isn't for example a Czech or Serbo-Croatian term.
 * lochagi (ancient greek(Spartan) officer) (In Classical Greek, this is λοχαγός, captain of a λόχος. —Stephen 15:24, 14 November 2007 (UTC))
 * lochi (type of ancient(Spartan) Greek millitary grouping) (In Classical Greek, this is λόχος, a company of soldiers. —Stephen 15:24, 14 November 2007 (UTC))
 * Plural of English lochus as at https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lochus?s=t ?
 * Leoaai - a (male) given name
 * Leoaai - a (male) given name

m, M

 * Mabia: (feminine) - a female name
 * mannele, mannala, manala (French? German?) type of Alsatian snack; see
 * Marnix: a Belgian male given name; see
 * Mashlim, mashlim? = last section of the Torah, or possibly the person who reads it?
 * medisterpølse, medisterkorv, medister: type of Scandinavian sausage; see
 * Melchora - female name used in the Philippines
 * Merckx: a Belgian surname.
 * Medhini (feminine) - female name
 * Morax - name from demonology

n, N

 * Nordek, Nordøk; see
 * 🇨🇬 - Old Tupi

o, O

 * oflete: a "Saxon" word (Old English?) for the communion bread
 * onomatopœïa

p, P

 * "pitoni, pidoni or piduni (in dialect) are deep fried calzone as made in Messina, Sicily." Are these words Sicilian, Italian, or a mixture? Equinox ◑ 10:20, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
 * The first two are Italian, the third is Sicilian. 98.170.164.88 23:34, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
 * - Latin for "by synaeresis", but is SOP in Latin itself; is it used in other languages?
 * pagima
 * pansophiae (Answer: Probably Latin pan-+sophia+-ae, from Greek πάνσοφος, "very wise, all wise")
 * pas de Zephyr/pas de zephyr (term in ballet choreography, from the French pas de fr:zéphyr, it is a step where you stand on one leg while swinging the other leg fore and aft. —Stephen 19:48, 23 July 2008 (UTC))
 * pentekostyes (ancient greek(spartan) millitary grouping) (That woud be πεντηκοστύς, a division of 50 men. —Stephen 06:07, 27 May 2008 (UTC))
 * Phædon used in 'Moby Dick', Chapter 35 'The Mast Head', "...who offers to ship with the Phædon instead of Bowditch in his head." (from Φαίδων, a Greek philosopher. —Stephen (Talk) 05:57, 3 April 2013 (UTC))
 * physica ex machina Latin It was used by Adrian Stan at page 5 in Conserving Approximations in Nonequilibrium Green Function Theory (Ph.D. thesis), University of Groningen (2009), to single out a computational approach in the absence of a careful understanding of the method used and hence lacking a lucid interpretation. This syntax was translated therein as ”physics from the machine” it implied an allegorical relation with the expression ”deus ex machina” as used in Horace’s Ars Poetica. This statement is also meant to be generalized beyond its present connection to the field of physics.
 * possido, possidere, possedi, possessum take hold of, seize. Possible alternate translation of possideo. ref: ULEAC Vocabulary GCE Advanced Level Latin.
 * PuBuKad Ilonggo of both? Capitalised or not? ANSWER: It is an Ilonggo term which means "Pu for PULAW -, BU - Bugtaw -- Kayod sa adlaw - " well as New Latin. NOT capitalized. —Adonis 11:29, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Propommern - an old placename perhaps in the area around the German/Danish frontier? &mdash; hippietrail 03:09, 3 November 2009 (UTC) (sounds like a variation of Vorpommern, or Western Pomerania, Cispomerania, or Greek Προπομερανία. Pommern is German for Pomerania, which derives from по море (or the Polish equivalent), meaning "on/along the sea"; the prefix pro- means forward, anterior, near. Pomerania is the Baltic coastal region across northern East Germany to Poland’s Gdansk, and Vorpommern, or Propommern, refers to Western Pomerania, the German part of Pomerania. —Stephen 04:04, 3 November 2009 (UTC))
 * This would be German or maybe Middle High German if it can be attested. However, all I found on Google Books were scannos, so I am skeptical.
 * prudé
 * Pummala - mentioned in 🇨🇬 (Place name? In English or Votic?)
 * pä and pö - names for the "California coffeeberry" (Frangula californica) in the Konkow language (which is not present on Wiktionary, but has the language code "mjd").
 * pä and pö - names for the "California coffeeberry" (Frangula californica) in the Konkow language (which is not present on Wiktionary, but has the language code "mjd").

q, Q

 * - a surname from a TV show, unclear if it is a real name or not. The character was an ethnic Gagauz from Southern Romania.

r, R

 * Rapčan, surname. Language? -- Czech, I think. --MaEr 19:46, 22 February 2011 (UTC) Probably Slovak, possibly related to Rabča. --The Dark Defender 23:20, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * rhamsan -- sphingan: extracellular polymer
 * raskrestitsia: used in article
 * romanization of Russian раскреститься meaning "to be debaptized" or something; рас- + креститься
 * Ȑ/ȑ alex Forgot where this was from. - alex the mid person (talk page here) 09:25, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Ȓ/ȓ alex This letter is Iñupiaq. - alex the mid person (talk page here) 09:25, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Ȓ/ȓ alex This letter is Iñupiaq. - alex the mid person (talk page here) 09:25, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

s, S

 * sainam-pirenena
 * sarta — something to do with: Dongxiang, Uzbekistan, Muslim traders in Central Asia.
 * shúkà — perhaps from Maa language, referring to a tartan cloth
 * sphingan, sphingans, sphingon or sphingons
 * Stabiānus, Stabiāna — related to the city of Stabiae, as in "Ager Stabiānus".
 * sunnambula — sleepwalker (cf. somnambulist), also apparently Mafia slang for the law/police? -- so probably Sicilian, or Italian dialect
 * Standard Italian has sonnambulo/a.
 * slör — mentioned as a descendant of Old Norse slyðra, but unclear to me what language "Angermannic" actually is
 * Smerconish — a surname, unsure of origin
 * Slabber — a surname, either Dutch or Afrikaans

t, T

 * taami - the name of a plant or fruit in an African language?
 * tagelieder
 * tamaheri
 * tau pok, taupok - a Peranakan dish in Singapore - but Peranakans don't have their own language so is this Malay, Singapore English, some variety of Chinese, or a combination? &mdash; hippietrail (talk) 11:12, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
 * tcharkhatchi -- Arabic: night watchman? (Arabic does not have a "ch". If this is a word in some Arabic dialect, it would probably be "jarkhaji". The termination "-ji" is common in names of professions, but it presupposes a root جرخ, and that’s not Modern Standard Arabic as far as I know.). See --- Could it have something to do with جركسي ? Not quite as transcribed, but possibly close enough. Means "Circassian" (and hence nightwatchman doesn't seem so unlikely, depending on the context). Paul Willocx 18:06, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Probably چرخچی charkhchi (چرخ + -چی), see Dehkhoda Dict. --Z 18:01, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
 * thang-ta (A form of martial arts using "The Art of the Sword and Spear" &mdash; is the traditional martial art of Meitei community of Manipur in Northeast India. It integrates various external weapons &mdash; the sword, spear, dagger, etc. &mdash; with the internal practice of physical control through soft movements coordinated with the rhythms of breathing. It is part of the great heroic tradition of Manipur.)
 * tram-mļöi hhâsmařpţuktôx - Ithkuil for "On the contrary, I think it may turn out that this rugged mountain range trails off at some point."
 * Türkmenbaşy - a Turkmen dictator's nickname
 * Türkmenbaşy - a Turkmen dictator's nickname

u, U

 * ukuba [Its meaning in all languages it can be found in.]
 * In Swahili, it means a bad omen; in Xhosa, it means if; in Bemba, it means to be; in Ndebele, it means in order that; in Hangaza, it means to dwell; in Nyakyusa-Ngonde, it mans peel. —Stephen 00:59, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ucuch = wild tobacco ("in southern Mexico, specifically Campeche and Yucatán": would this be Spanish?)
 * No. Probably some . Chuck Entz (talk) 06:37, 18 November 2022 (UTC)


 * útgeislun = Means radiance or radiation in Icelandic, derived from geislun (the prefix út, meaning "out," geisla, meaning "to shine", and the suffix -un, which is used to make a noun out of a verb. So, it would literally mean "outward shine")
 * Ubaidullah - a male given name

w, W

 * welan -> Limburgish: wele (to chose) compare German wählen --Ooswesthoesbes 14:20, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Wanzo – in Dogon and Bambara belief, an evil power, according to p. 103. of . However, I couldn't find a relevant term either in or . It Is Me Here  t / c  01:15, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 * widu -- seems to be an ancient Javanese performer of song, dance, etc.
 * wimachtendienk - Lenape for "brotherhood" (see also )

Z

 * Zeytuncu — surname in some Turkic language meaning Oliver. Not Turkish, that's zeytinci.
 * Zilkoski — Surname, but is it Finnic (koski means rapids or waterfall) or Slavic (-ski is a common adjective ending)?
 * z̟ — advanced z (IPA), denti-alveolar z (Voiced_alveolar_fricative)
 * Zilkoski — Surname, but is it Finnic (koski means rapids or waterfall) or Slavic (-ski is a common adjective ending)?
 * z̟ — advanced z (IPA), denti-alveolar z (Voiced_alveolar_fricative)