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1. Fernweh (German)
-feeling homesick for a place you have never been to.

2.Komorebi (Japanese)
the sort of scattered dappled light effect,
that happens when sunlight shines in through tress

3. Tingo (Pascuense)
to gradually s†éál all the possesions out of a neighbor's house by borrowing and nor returning

4. Pochemuchka (Russian)
A person who ask too many questions

5. Gökotta (Swedish)
to wake up early in the morning with the purpose of going outside to hear the first bird sing.

6. Bakku-shan (Japanese)
a beautiful girl,as long as she's been viewed from behind

7. Backpfeifengesicht (German)
a face badly in need of a fest

8. Aware (Japanese)
the bittersweetness of a brief and fading moment of transcedent beauty

9. Tsundoku (Japanese)
the act of living a book unread after buying it,typically piling it up together with other such unread books.

10. Shlimazl (Yiddish)
a chronically unlucky person

11. Rire dans sa barbe (French)
to laugh in your beard quietly while thinking about something that happened in the past

12. Waldeinsamkeit (German)
the feeling of being alone in the woods

13. Hanyauku (Rukwangali)
the act of walking on tiptoes across warm sand

14. Gattara (Italian)
a woman often old and lonely who devote herself to stray cats

15. Prozvonit (Czech)
to call a mobile phone only to have it ring once so that the other person would call back allowing the caller not to spend money minutes

16. Iktsuarpok (Inuit)
the frustration of waiting for someone to turn up

17. Papakata (Cook Islands Maori)
to have one leg shorter than the other

18. Friolero (Spanish)
a person who is especially sensetive to cold weather and temperatures

19. Schilderwald (German)
a street crowded with so many road signs thar you become lost

20. Utepils (Norwegian)
to set outside on a sunny day enjoying a beer

21. Mamihlapinatapei (Yagan)
a wordless yet meaningful look shared by two peeple who both desire to initiate something but are both reluctant to start

22. Culaccino (Italian)
the mark left on a table by a moist glass

23. Ilunga (Tshiluba)
a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time to tolerate it a second time but never a third time.

24. Kyoikumama (Japanese)
mother who pushes her children into academic achievements

25. Age-otori (Japanese)
to look worse after a haircut

26. Chai-Pani (Hindi)
money given to someone often a bureaucratic worker to get things done

27. Won (Korean)
the reluctance on a person's part to let go of an illusion

28. Tokka (Finnish)
a large heird of rendeer


29. Schadenfreude (German)
enjoyment obtained from the misery of others


30. Wabi-Sabi (Japanese)
accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay






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Bakku-shan (Japanese)
a beautiful girl,as long aa she's been viewed from behind

Talikogenic
Agree ako dito sa talikogenic
Related din: "hipon" - taong maganda ang katawan, pero hindi ang peys, haha 😅
Parang hipon, tinatapon ulo (sipsipin muna syempre, haha)

Suhol yata yang Chai-Pani. :ROFLMAO:
Pwede ring "padulas", hehe
Masyadong direkta kasi yung suhol 😅

3. Tingo (Pascuense)
to gradually s†éál all the possesions out of a neighbor's house by borrowing and nor returning
Medyo similar:
PansamanTAGAL
T.Y.
(thank you)

10. Shlimazl (Yiddish)
a chronicqlly unlucky person
Similar: "May balat sa pwet"
"Mongolian Blue Spot", or a birthmark on your ****

15. Prozvonit (Czech)
to call a mobile phone only to have it ring once so that the other person would call back allowing the caller not to spend money minutes
Similar:
Pa "miss call"
or
Pa "missed call"

Kung Filipino to foreign language naman, mahirap i translate yung
"gigil"

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