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"counterpart",
"counterpart#English"
],
[
"Borduria",
"Borduria#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) A generic name of a fictional country, generally contrasted with a rival counterpart Borduria."
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
]
}
],
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{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bangla",
"roman": "śildabhiẏa",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "সিলদাভিয়া"
},
{
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Sildavia"
},
{
"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "西爾達維亞"
},
{
"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "西尔达维亚"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Syldavien"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Syldavië"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Sildavio"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Syldavia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Syldavie"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Syldavien"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Syldavia"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Syldavia"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "sildabia",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "실다비아"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Syldavia"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "سیلداویا"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Sildávia"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Silʹdavija",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Сильдавия"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Syldavia"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Syldavien"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Sildavya"
}
],
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"Hergé",
"King Ottokar's Sceptre",
"Le Temps",
"Outlook (Indian magazine)"
],
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}
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],
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"Syldavia."
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[
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"#English"
]
],
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]
}
],
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},
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{
"categories": [
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian feminine nouns",
"Italian lemmas",
"Italian proper nouns",
"Italian terms spelled with Y"
],
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"Syldavia"
],
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[
"Syldavia",
"Syldavia#English"
]
],
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"feminine"
],
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]
}
],
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},
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{
"categories": [
"Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header",
"Norwegian Bokmål lemmas",
"Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns"
],
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"Syldavia."
],
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[
"Syldavia",
"#English"
]
],
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]
}
],
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}
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"1": "loanword",
"2": "Borrowed"
},
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"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "fr",
"3": "Syldavie",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "French Syldavie",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "fr",
"3": "Syldavie"
},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "Transylvanie",
"3": "Moldavie",
"nocap": "1",
"nocat": "1"
},
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"name": "blend"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "proper nouns",
"g": "f",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": ""
},
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{
"args": {
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"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "name",
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{
"categories": [
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish feminine nouns",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish proper nouns",
"Spanish terms borrowed from French",
"Spanish terms derived from French",
"Spanish terms with quotations",
"en:Fictional locations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "How many could distinguish the failed Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia from the fictitious Syldavia and Borduria?",
"ref": "2017 October 11, Andrés Malamud, “El separatismo es una amenaza para la paz mundial [Separatism is a threat to world peace]”, in La Nación (Buenos Aires) [The Nation], archived from the original on 2022-11-13",
"text": "¿cuántos podrían distinguir las fallidas Yugoslavia y Checoslovaquia de las ficticias Syldavia y Borduria?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Syldavia"
],
"links": [
[
"Syldavia",
"Syldavia#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"wikipedia": [
"Hergé",
"King Ottokar's Sceptre",
"es:Syldavia"
]
}
],
"word": "Syldavia"
}
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