See Hulk on Wiktionary
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"expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from English Hulk",
"name": "ubor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from English Hulk.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Hulk ?",
"name": "pt-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Portuguese 2-syllable words",
"Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"Portuguese lemmas",
"Portuguese proper nouns",
"Portuguese terms borrowed from English",
"Portuguese terms derived from English",
"Portuguese terms spelled with K",
"Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Portuguese unadapted borrowings from English",
"Portuguese uncountable proper nouns",
"Requests for gender in Portuguese entries",
"pt:Fictional characters",
"pt:Marvel Comics"
],
"glosses": [
"Hulk (fictional Marvel Comics character)"
],
"links": [
[
"Hulk",
"Hulk#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʁuw.ki/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈhuʊ̯.ki]",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʁuw.ki/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈhuʊ̯.ki]",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʁuw.ki/",
"tags": [
"Rio-de-Janeiro"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈχuʊ̯.ki]",
"tags": [
"Rio-de-Janeiro"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʁuw.ke/",
"tags": [
"Southern-Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈhuʊ̯.ke]",
"tags": [
"Southern-Brazil"
]
}
],
"word": "Hulk"
}
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