See chufa on Wiktionary
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"text": "Chufa is most popular in two places in the Mediterranean, Spain and Egypt (especially around Damietta). In Spain, especially in the region of Valencia, chufa is used to make a drink called horchata.",
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"expansion": "See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.",
"name": "ety"
}
],
"etymology_text": "See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "chufa",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"chu‧fa"
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"chu‧fa"
]
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "chufar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of chufar:",
"third-person singular present indicative"
],
"links": [
[
"chufar",
"chufar#Spanish"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"indicative",
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "chufar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of chufar:",
"second-person singular imperative"
],
"links": [
[
"chufar",
"chufar#Spanish"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃufa/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃu.fa]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ufa"
}
],
"word": "chufa"
}
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