Did you possibly mean one of these? Inga, lungi
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Examples
“An amusing story, and I like the word ilunga assuming it has been correctly rendered and translated, which may be a rash assumption.”
“The world's most difficult word to translate has been identified as "ilunga" ... posted by Sally 10: 17 PM | who are the recipients of this year's presidential medal of freedom, alex?”
“Faithful correspondent Andrew Krug sent me a link to a BBC story by Oliver Conway claiming that:The world's most difficult word to translate has been identified as "ilunga" from the Tshiluba language spoken in south-eastern DR Congo.”
“But i've never indulged in selathirupavar, and so, shaddup, pochemuchka. i mean, i am an ilunga, but don't push it.”
“The hardest word is ilunga, from the Congo, meaning “a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time.””
“BIG gamble, but I'm right behind Zola and clarke and nani on this one, after Behrami and ilunga.”
“Hopefully things will turn round for you quickly, I would much prefer you coming to WHL rather than teams like Swansea & Norwich, no offence meant to those 2 teams but WH are a bigger team and the atmosphere when we play you is always a ripper! i though tomkins, taylor and piq played well, ilunga pumped the long ball way too much, but overall, not too bad a display and if you had scored early, would have been different game, but obviously not scoring is an issue. think over 40-odd games you will be fine.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ilunga’.
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Say it Frenchie
A list of foreign or foreign based words
ce soir, vous allez, voudrais, imbroglio, zeitgeist, umami, gastronomique, schadenfreude, waldeinsamkeit, ilunga, taarradhin, litost and 18 more...
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Hard to Translate
Words which exceed the common problems one finds in translation.
radioustukacz, shlimazl, gezellig, saudade, selathirupavar, pochernuchka, klloshar, ilunga, filotimo, plenipotentiary, taarradhin, guanxi and 33 more...
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Let's get back to our enraged sheep :...
Idiomatic wisdom from other countries and cultures. For some of the more obscure languages, expressions were found on the excellent site omniglot.com
donde ronca tigre..., a cada cerdo le l..., Поредити бабе и жабе, baba şi mitraliera, a otro perro con ..., llevar hierro al ..., no se le puede pe..., no se pescan truc..., ada udang di bali..., ropa inte hej för..., nu är det kokta f..., att lägga lök på ... and 210 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Untranslatable Words
ilunga, hygge, shlimazl, tingo, avidor, kummerspeck, drachenfutter, mahj
Tweets
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myheadisweak Ilunga: (Tshiluba, Congo) A person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time. Apr 24, 2011
reesetee I love that one word can encompass this whole concept. Dec 5, 2008
bilby What happens on the third time? Thumb is jerked and the friend trudges off toward the dugout? Dec 5, 2008
sionnach a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time; to tolerate it a second time; but never a third time. (from Tshiluba, a Bantu language spoken in south-eastern Congo and in Zaire). Dec 4, 2008