See Shoah on Wiktionary
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"Polish entries with incorrect language header",
"Polish indeclinable nouns",
"Polish lemmas",
"Polish literary terms",
"Polish neuter nouns",
"Polish proper nouns",
"Polish terms borrowed from Hebrew",
"Polish terms derived from Hebrew",
"Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Polish terms with historical senses",
"Rhymes:Polish/ɔa",
"Rhymes:Polish/ɔa/2 syllables",
"Rhymes:Polish/ɔax",
"Rhymes:Polish/ɔax/2 syllables",
"pl:Death",
"pl:Historical events",
"pl:Nazism",
"pl:World War II"
],
"glosses": [
"Shoah (mass murder of Jews perpetrated by the Nazi Germany)"
],
"links": [
[
"Shoah",
"Shoah#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(historical, literary) Shoah (mass murder of Jews perpetrated by the Nazi Germany)"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Holocaust"
},
{
"word": "Holokaust"
}
],
"tags": [
"historical",
"indeclinable",
"literary",
"neuter"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʂɔ.a/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʂɔ.ax/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔa"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔax"
}
],
"word": "Shoah"
}
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"path": [
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"section": "English",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "Shoah",
"trace": ""
}
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