See Heather on Wiktionary
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],
"hyphenation": [
"Hea‧ther"
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"Hea‧ther"
]
}
],
"lang": "Tagalog",
"lang_code": "tl",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Tagalog/edeɾ",
"Rhymes:Tagalog/edeɾ/2 syllables",
"Tagalog 2-syllable words",
"Tagalog entries with incorrect language header",
"Tagalog female given names",
"Tagalog female given names from English",
"Tagalog given names",
"Tagalog lemmas",
"Tagalog proper nouns",
"Tagalog terms borrowed from English",
"Tagalog terms derived from English",
"Tagalog terms with Baybayin script",
"Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation",
"Tagalog terms with missing Baybayin script entries"
],
"glosses": [
"a female given name from English"
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhedeɾ/",
"tags": [
"Standard-Tagalog"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈhɛː.d̪ɛɾ]",
"tags": [
"Standard-Tagalog"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-edeɾ"
}
],
"word": "Heather"
}
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