See Molly on Wiktionary
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"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c"
},
"expansion": "Molly c (genitive Mollys)",
"name": "sv-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Swedish common-gender nouns",
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish female given names",
"Swedish given names",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish proper nouns",
"Swedish terms derived from English"
],
"glosses": [
"a female given name"
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
],
"tags": [
"common-gender"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
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"audio": "LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Molly.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/LL-Q9027_%28swe%29-Moonhouse-Molly.wav/LL-Q9027_%28swe%29-Moonhouse-Molly.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/LL-Q9027_%28swe%29-Moonhouse-Molly.wav/LL-Q9027_%28swe%29-Moonhouse-Molly.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "Molly"
}
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