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Abeni (f ) we asked for her and behold we got her
(Yoruba, Nigeria)
Guedado (m) wanted by nobody (Fulani, Mali)
Anele (f ) enough (given to a last born) (Xhosa, South
Africa)
Kickass baby names

ak akce kara gun icindir (Turkish) white money for a black day (savings for a rainy day)

(Hawaiian) ku’u imu kalua loa a lo’ik’i: my long underground oven (the grave)

iwang wayaka (Ulwa, Nicaragua) a spirit that comes out after a person dies, makes noises and yet is never seen.
bodach (Scottish Gaelic) the ghost of an old man that comes down the chimney to terrorize children who have been naughty

avaler son bulletin de naissance (French) to swallow one’s birth certificate
Liebestod (German) dying for love or because of a romantic tragedy

Or is it that by luridly painting women as lustful, conniving men over the world have cleverly avoided any blame for their own adulterous behaviour? Even when they’re guilty, they try to keep the linguistic upper hand.

Rainen no kono hi mo issho ni waratteiyoh (Japanese) it means ‘this time next year let’s be laughing together’.
biodegradabile (Italian) someone who falls in love easily and often.

(italian) Sometimes a boy will say cibi cierre to a girl (CBCR). This is an
acronym of cresci bene che ripasso: ‘if you still look like that when you’ve grown up, I will come and pay you a call’

tragado como media de cartero (Colombian Spanish) being hopelessly in love (literally, swallowed like a postman’s sock)

mono-no-aware (Japanese) appreciating the sadness of existence

The Cantonese equivalent to ‘you’re as thick as two short planks’ is the equally graphic nie hochi yat gau faan gam, ‘you look like a clump of cooked rice’,

vaseliner (French) to flatter (literally, to apply vaseline)

" The Arab exclamation ‘God protect us from hairy women and beardless men’ "
Never heard of this and i dont think it's actually a saying but ok bro

"zolst farliren aleh tseyner achitz eynm, un dos zol dir vey ton" (Yiddish): may you lose all your teeth but one and may that one ache.
A new favourite phrase 10/10

"kill (Arabic) good friend"
i'm very confused and now i will doubt everything in this book ngl
i guess the author could be referring to the word "khill" but still idk

Хотілося б бути chupotero [(Spanish) - a person who works little but has several salaries], а виходить поки що тільки métro-boulot-dodo [(French) - tube-work-sleep] 😐

У розділі " Weltschmerz" явно не вистачає української фрази "непозбувна бентега" 🤭

Це прямо про мене 🤭
ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo) - someone who is ready to forgive abuse the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time