See boko on Wiktionary
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[
"beak",
"beak#English"
],
[
"beaucoup",
"beaucoup#French"
],
[
"beak",
"beak#English"
],
[
"coconut",
"coconut#English"
],
[
"boke",
"boke#English"
],
[
"poke",
"poke#English"
],
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"poke one's nose into",
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]
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56,
60
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"text": "[…] the way he hid the Pernod card and bumped me on the boko when I tried to have a dekko at it proves that.",
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118,
122
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139,
143
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"ref": "2012, Mary Dobbs Wood, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Inventing My Childhood, page 45:",
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},
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"tags": [
"US"
]
},
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"US"
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},
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"rhymes": "-əʊkəʊ"
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"Bock",
"Bock#German"
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[
"buck",
"buck#English"
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"buĉi#Esperanto"
]
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"tags": [
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"singular"
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"bocca",
"bocca#Italian"
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[
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[
"bocca",
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],
[
"boca",
"boca#Spanish"
],
[
"bucca",
"bucca#Latin"
]
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"1": "",
"2": "",
"3": "",
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"5": "",
"6": "boca",
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"2": "la",
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"name": "der"
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"tags": [
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"2": "noun",
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"mouth"
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"anatomy"
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"anatomy",
"medicine",
"sciences"
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[
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"opening"
],
[
"entrance",
"entrance"
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{
"word": "enireyo"
}
]
},
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"mouth (of a river or stream)"
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[
"geography",
"geography"
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[
"mouth",
"mouth"
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"word": "fluvioboko"
}
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"geography",
"natural-sciences"
]
}
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"ipa": "/ˈboko/"
}
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"2": "romanization",
"head": "",
"sc": "Latn"
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"name": "head"
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"word": "ぼこ"
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[
"Rōmaji",
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[
"ぼこ",
"ぼこ#Japanese"
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"alt-of",
"romanization"
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}
],
"word": "boko"
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"Makasar lemmas",
"Makasar nouns",
"Makasar terms derived from Proto-South Sulawesi",
"Makasar terms inherited from Proto-South Sulawesi",
"Makasar terms with redundant script codes",
"Pages with 13 entries",
"Pages with entries"
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"derived": [
{
"sense": "affixations",
"word": "aʼboko"
},
{
"sense": "affixations",
"word": "bokòi"
},
{
"sense": "affixations",
"word": "papparibokoang"
},
{
"sense": "affixations",
"word": "pariboko"
},
{
"sense": "affixations",
"word": "pasibokoang"
},
{
"sense": "affixations",
"word": "riboko"
},
{
"sense": "affixations",
"word": "ribokoang"
},
{
"sense": "affixations",
"word": "sibokòi"
},
{
"sense": "compounds",
"word": "allo riboko"
},
{
"sense": "compounds",
"word": "ammonoʼ boko"
},
{
"sense": "compounds",
"word": "anaʼ riboko"
},
{
"sense": "compounds",
"word": "anngalle boko"
},
{
"sense": "compounds",
"word": "boko dasereʼ"
},
{
"sense": "compounds",
"word": "boko kana"
},
{
"sense": "compounds",
"word": "boko lima"
},
{
"sense": "compounds",
"word": "boko toli"
},
{
"sense": "compounds",
"word": "boko ulu"
},
{
"sense": "compounds",
"word": "turiboko"
}
],
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[
"*bokot",
"Reconstruction:Proto-South Sulawesi/bokot"
],
[
"bokoq",
"bokoq#Toraja-Sa'dan"
],
[
"bokoʼ",
"bokoʼ#Buginese"
]
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "",
"2": "i",
"3": "I"
},
"expansion": "I",
"name": "yesno"
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{
"args": {
"1": "Inherited"
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"name": "glossary"
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"1": "mak",
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"4": "",
"5": "back",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
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"name": "inh"
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{
"args": {
"1": "sda",
"2": "bokoq"
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"expansion": "Toraja-Sa'dan bokoq",
"name": "cog"
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"args": {
"1": "bug",
"2": "bokoʼ"
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"expansion": "Buginese bokoʼ",
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"form": "bokoa",
"tags": [
"definite"
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{
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"tags": [
"possessive",
"third-person"
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"args": {
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"expansion": "boko (Lontara spelling ᨅᨚᨀᨚ or 𑻤𑻶𑻠𑻶, definite bokoa, 3rd person possessive bokona)",
"name": "mak-noun"
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"ko"
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{
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[
"anatomy",
"anatomy"
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[
"back",
"back"
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"rear",
"rear"
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"sciences"
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{
"bold_text_offsets": [
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8,
12
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14,
18
]
],
"english": "To turn one's back on N.N. / to run away from him.",
"text": "Assarei boko i Anu",
"translation": "To turn one's back on N.N. / to run away from him.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
9,
13
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],
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[
17,
29
]
],
"english": "He considers the consequences / what comes after an action before doing it.",
"text": "Naciniki bokona gauka nanagaukang",
"translation": "He considers the consequences / what comes after an action before doing it.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
42,
46
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"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
68,
74
]
],
"english": "I am completely alone; there is no one to take care of what I leave behind / look after my affairs when I am gone.",
"text": "Inakke tau kkale-kale taena anngalleangaʼ bokoku",
"translation": "I am completely alone; there is no one to take care of what I leave behind / look after my affairs when I am gone.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"later time; future; what comes after; consequence"
],
"links": [
[
"future",
"future"
],
[
"consequence",
"consequence"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈboko/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈɓɔ.kʰɔ]"
}
],
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}
{
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[
"buku",
"buku"
],
[
"*buku",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Malayo-Polynesian/buku"
]
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{
"args": {
"1": "msk",
"2": "poz-pro",
"3": "*buku"
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"expansion": "Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buku",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From buku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buku.",
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{
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"1": "msk",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "boko",
"name": "head"
}
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"Mansaka entries with incorrect language header",
"Mansaka lemmas",
"Mansaka nouns",
"Mansaka terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian",
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"Pages with 13 entries",
"Pages with entries"
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[
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"knot"
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}
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}
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"Moore lemmas",
"Moore nouns",
"Pages with 13 entries",
"Pages with entries"
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[
"boko",
"boko#Farefare"
]
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"args": {
"1": "gur",
"2": "boko",
"t": "hole"
},
"expansion": "Farefare boko (“hole”)",
"name": "cognate"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Compare Farefare boko (“hole”)",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bogdo",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "mos",
"2": "noun",
"3": "plural",
"4": "bogdo"
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"expansion": "boko (plural bogdo)",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"pos": "noun",
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{
"glosses": [
"hole"
],
"links": [
[
"hole",
"hole"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"pothole"
],
"links": [
[
"pothole",
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]
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/bò.kó/"
}
],
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}
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{
"args": {
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"2": "proper noun"
},
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"name": "head"
}
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"categories": [
"Pages with 13 entries",
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"Saisiyat given names",
"Saisiyat lemmas",
"Saisiyat proper nouns"
],
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"a female given name"
],
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[
"given name",
"given name"
]
]
}
],
"word": "boko"
}
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"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
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"f2sc": "",
"head": "",
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"expansion": "boko",
"name": "head"
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "boko",
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"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"Pages with 13 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Ternate entries with incorrect language header",
"Ternate lemmas",
"Ternate nouns"
],
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"a kind of large drum"
],
"links": [
[
"large",
"large"
],
[
"drum",
"drum"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "[ˈbo.ko]"
}
],
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}
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