See Hephthalite on Wiktionary
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"lang_code": "az",
"sense": "any of a Central Asian people who were in nomadic confederation during the 5th–6th centuries",
"word": "eftalit"
},
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "eftalit",
"sense": "any of a Central Asian people who were in nomadic confederation during the 5th–6th centuries",
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"code": "cmn",
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"lang_code": "cmn",
"sense": "any of a Central Asian people who were in nomadic confederation during the 5th–6th centuries",
"word": "嚈噠 /𫩫哒"
},
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"roman": "Yèdá",
"sense": "any of a Central Asian people who were in nomadic confederation during the 5th–6th centuries",
"word": "嚈哒"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "Yìdá",
"sense": "any of a Central Asian people who were in nomadic confederation during the 5th–6th centuries",
"word": "挹怛"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "Yìtián",
"sense": "any of a Central Asian people who were in nomadic confederation during the 5th–6th centuries",
"word": "挹闐 /挹阗"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "any of a Central Asian people who were in nomadic confederation during the 5th–6th centuries",
"word": "hefthaliitti"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "any of a Central Asian people who were in nomadic confederation during the 5th–6th centuries",
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"word": "Ephthalite"
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"sense": "any of a Central Asian people who were in nomadic confederation during the 5th–6th centuries",
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"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
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"roman": "śvet hūṇ",
"sense": "any of a Central Asian people who were in nomadic confederation during the 5th–6th centuries",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "श्वेत हूण"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "any of a Central Asian people who were in nomadic confederation during the 5th–6th centuries",
"tags": [
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"word": "eftalita"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "any of a Central Asian people who were in nomadic confederation during the 5th–6th centuries",
"tags": [
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"word": "Ephthalītēs"
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"code": "la",
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "any of a Central Asian people who were in nomadic confederation during the 5th–6th centuries",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "эфтали́т"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "any of a Central Asian people who were in nomadic confederation during the 5th–6th centuries",
"word": "heftalita"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
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"sense": "any of a Central Asian people who were in nomadic confederation during the 5th–6th centuries",
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"word": "heftalit"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
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"sense": "any of a Central Asian people who were in nomadic confederation during the 5th–6th centuries",
"word": "Eftalit"
},
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ефталі́т"
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"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
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"sense": "any of a Central Asian people who were in nomadic confederation during the 5th–6th centuries",
"word": "eftalit"
}
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"form": "more Hephthalite",
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"form": "most Hephthalite",
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"ref": "1999, B. A. Litvinsky, “6: The Hephthalite Empire”, in B. A. Litvinsky, Zhang Guang-Da, R. Shabani Samghabardi, editors, History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume III: The crossroads of civilizations: A.D. 250 to 750, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, page 135:",
"text": "From the mid-fifth to the mid-sixth century Central Asia was ruled by the Hephthalite tribes. There are many gaps in our knowledge of the origin of the Hephthalites and the formation of their state, the first difficulty being that they are given different names in the various sources.",
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "of or relating to the Hephthalites",
"word": "ephthalite"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"roman": "eftalítskij",
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"word": "эфтали́тский"
}
],
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}
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