What are your favorite words (in any language)?

[The Angel of Eternity]

What are your favorite words (in any language)? If you list your words, but you remembered another word that you didn't list, always remember that there's nothing wrong with posting here again (or editing your original post). Also, there's no limit as to what you can put here. If your favorite word is vulgar and you'd still like to share it, I won't judge you. This will be a judgment-free zone to share words that tickle your fancy.

 

My favorite words that currently come to mind are "steadfast", "bereft", "Jerusalem", "Salem", and "impending".

[Jot-Aro Kujo]

Defenestrate.

[Mrs. Nightwing]

"Dream" and "desafortunadamente"

[time-is-ticking]

ödmjukt, besynnerlig, förunderlig, jærtegn, svävande, glimt, lykta, drottning, anrik, astrologi, domherre, konung, viktoriansk, väva, tydlig,

as for english words, the only ones that come to mind atm are obscure, curious, clarity, cherish, meticulous & clockwork

sorry there are so many haha

[Atlamillia Pixie]

Menagerie, Standoffish, Aliquot 

[Artemis's Aro]

barbacoa, sacapuntas, fe

i know i have some in english but it seems ive forgotten them so if i remember i'll add them

[The Angel of Eternity]

Ascension, battle, war, channel, knowledge, hardship, freedom, dimension, Gaia

[bananaslug]

skildpadde (Danish) and cantankerous (English).

Edited April 22, 2020 by bananaslug

[RoboticHumanoid]

In English discombobulated and anthropoid- but there are always interesting words. Oh and also simulacrum. 

Edited April 25, 2020 by RoboticHumanoid

[The Angel of Eternity]

Godspeed, provost

[Cheerio]

serendipity, clear, dulcet, honey, quaint, remember

[The Angel of Eternity]

6 hours ago, Cheerio said:

remember

The word "remember" is only said twice throughout this song, but both times, it is so distinct and beautiful-sounding. I think you'll like it.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5B1lOmU5LM

[general_zaroff]

I like hippopotomonstresisquipedaliophobia, personally

Edited April 23, 2020 by Ryn

[Cheerio]

19 hours ago, The Angel of Eternity said:

The word "remember" is only said twice throughout this song, but both times, it is so distinct and beautiful-sounding. I think you'll like it.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5B1lOmU5LM

That was a lovely song! You were right about "remember" being distinct and beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing that!

[TripleA]

English: Bastard, Shan't (Shall not)

French: Insouciance (being carefree)

Ukrainian: лялька/ljal'ka (doll)

 

[RoboticHumanoid]

On 4/22/2020 at 11:09 PM, Ryn said:

I like hippopotomonstresisquipedaliophobia, personally

I forgot about that. I love the word. Very ironic

[DeltaAro]

Dutch: eekhoorn (= squirrel), English: cauldron, French: noir (this is very unoriginal), langoureuse (= languishing, languid), German: Nebel (= fog, nebula), Greek: ψυχή (psyche, but I like that in Greek it's a four letter word), Russian: мир (= peace, world),

On 4/22/2020 at 12:20 AM, Atlamillia Pixie said:

Menagerie

that's a great one!

[Flurkin]

French: blanc. I dunno why, I just liked how it sounded when I was younger.

English: Dociousaliexpisticfragicalirupus (Can't even say it though, it's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious backwards though! Not spelt that way, but you get the idea.)

[ScarfOfSexualPreference]

English: Lacrimose

German: leckererer (my German teacher's favorite is verschnørkeln (ø = umlaut) or to squiggle) 

I also saw menagerie and I realized how much I liked that one too.

[Apathetic Echidna]

English: symphony, quixotic, sixpence, petrichor 

Variety of Aboriginal Australian languages/dialects or Anglicised versions used for town names: Narrandera (Town), Tiddalik (Frog from Dreamtime), Wilcannia (Town), Tjilbruke (Character from Dreamtime), Uluru (Ayers Rock), Anangu (Tribe name/dialect name), Kudlila ('Winter' in Karuna language), mulla mulla (Plant/place name)

Edited May 29, 2020 by Apathetic Echidna
I thought I'd be nice and ad translations

[Holmbo]

I like juxtapose

[Goldifish]

if i could marry a word it would probably be insipid.

[Guest]

In french : arcade , cristal, épine, val, outre-mer, pic, citadelle, mystère, tombe, saul, conte, éolien, miroir, météor

In english : petrichor, sand, mist, seer, window, willow, shire (but the thing with english is that even if i know it, more than half of the time i don't instinctively get the prononciation right)

 

That's a lot ? i could find more but

 

Edited July 7, 2020 by Guest

[chairdesklamp]

My native, you're not supposed to be proud of speaking Japanese if you're actually Japanese. You *will* get screamed at it, even by very "liberal" Westerners who say they want to "help immigrants." 

But I'm so proud of my native language for two reasons:

A. Gender neutral way to refer to someone, either name+honorific or "that person" are completely natural speech and considered polite. I'm binary male, but I'm very proud of that inclusion. (Even if the culture is gendered, most gendering in *speech* is self-gendering, not others-gendering. In fact, using "she" or "he" like you do in English sounds unnatural and marks you as non-native speaker!)

B. The word for "gentrification" is 階級浄化, lit. class-cleansing. (Which over here, racism gets added to it) I love how my native calls it out head-on. 

[ObliviousPineapple]

Phthalo, just because a silent ph is so absurd. Also blue is pretty.