See Lim on Wiktionary
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"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Requests for accents in Serbo-Croatian proper noun entries",
"Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header",
"Serbo-Croatian inanimate nouns",
"Serbo-Croatian lemmas",
"Serbo-Croatian masculine inanimate nouns",
"Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns",
"Serbo-Croatian proper nouns",
"Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Albanian",
"sh:Places in Bosnia and Herzegovina",
"sh:Places in Montenegro",
"sh:Places in Serbia",
"sh:Rivers in Bosnia and Herzegovina",
"sh:Rivers in Montenegro",
"sh:Rivers in Serbia"
],
"glosses": [
"Lim (a river in Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina)"
],
"links": [
[
"Lim",
"Lim#English"
],
[
"river",
"river"
],
[
"Montenegro",
"Montenegro#English"
],
[
"Serbia",
"Serbia#English"
],
[
"Bosnia and Herzegovina",
"Bosnia and Herzegovina#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"inanimate",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɫim/"
}
],
"word": "Lim"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tl",
"2": "nan-hbl",
"3": "林",
"tr": "Lîm"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Hokkien 林 (Lîm)",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "tl",
"2": "Lam"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of Lam",
"name": "doublet"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "id",
"2": "Liem"
},
"expansion": "Indonesian Liem",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hokkien 林 (Lîm). Doublet of Lam. Compare Indonesian Liem.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ᜎᜒᜋ᜔",
"tags": [
"Baybayin"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"b": "+"
},
"expansion": "Lim (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜋ᜔)",
"name": "tl-proper noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"Lim"
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"Lim"
]
}
],
"lang": "Tagalog",
"lang_code": "tl",
"pos": "name",
"related": [
{
"english": "from Cantonese",
"translation": "from Cantonese",
"word": "Lam"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Tagalog/im",
"Rhymes:Tagalog/im/1 syllable",
"Tagalog 1-syllable words",
"Tagalog doublets",
"Tagalog entries with incorrect language header",
"Tagalog lemmas",
"Tagalog proper nouns",
"Tagalog surnames",
"Tagalog surnames from Hokkien",
"Tagalog terms borrowed from Hokkien",
"Tagalog terms derived from Hokkien",
"Tagalog terms with Baybayin script",
"Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Tagalog terms with mabilis pronunciation",
"Tagalog terms with missing Baybayin script entries"
],
"glosses": [
"a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien"
],
"links": [
[
"surname",
"surname"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlim/",
"tags": [
"Standard-Tagalog"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈlɪm]",
"tags": [
"Standard-Tagalog"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-im"
}
],
"word": "Lim"
}
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