15,000 words and phrases from more than 50 languages and their

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zacate [Sp], grass grown for forage; fodder.
zaftig [Yiddish], pleasantly plump.
zaftrek [Russ], breakfast.
Zahltag kommt alle Tag [Ger], payday comes every day.
zaibatsu (Jap], lit., wealth family; great industrial cliques.
zambomba [Sp], kind of crude rustic drum.
zamindar or zemindar [Hind], landholder; land tax collector: India.
zamindari [Hind], office and estates of a zamindar; real estate: India.
zampogna [It], bagpipe.
zanja [Sp], ditch; trench; esp., irrigation ditch or canal.
zanjero [Sp], man in charge of zanjas.
zapatera [Sp], shoemaker's wife; also, a defective olive, esp. one spoiled
in curing.
zapatería [Sp], shoemaker's shop; shoe store.
zapatero [Sp], shoemaker. —zapatero, a tus zapatos, shoemaker, keep
to your shoes; cobbler, stick to your last.
zapatilla [Sp], light shoe or pump; slipper.
zapato [Sp], shoe.
¡zape! [Sp], scat!
zapote [Mex Sp]. Cf. CHAPÓTE.
zarf [Ar], lit., sheath or case; a metallic stand for a. finjan, or Oriental
coffee cup.
zart [Ger], music, tender; soft; delicate; also, fond; affectionate; of colors,
pale; subdued.
zartem Ohre, halbes Wort [Ger], to a quick ear, half a word (is enough).
Zartgefühl [Ger], delicacy of feeling; tact.
zärtlich [Ger], tender; delicate; loving; fond.
zayat [Burmese], lit., a stopping-place to eat in; inn; public shelter or
resthouse: Burma.
zdrávstvui! or zdrávstvuite! [Russ], a salutation for all occasions, equivalent
to "good morning," "good day," etc.
Zeichen [Ger; sing. & pi.], mark; sign.
Zeitgeist [Ger], the spirit of the age; cultural climate; moral and
intellectual trend of any particular period.
Zeitung [Ger; pl. Zeitungen], newspaper; gazette; journal.
zelosamente [It], ardently; with energy: music.
zeloso [It], with energy: music.
Zen [Jap], lit., religious meditation; mystical Japanese Buddhist sect.
zenana [Hind], the apartments reserved for women in a household:
India.
zhená [Russ], wife; spouse; woman.
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