See macumba on Wiktionary
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"ipa": "/ma.kum.ba/"
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"plural"
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"glosses": [
"macumba"
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"spell"
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"(figuratively) hex, spell"
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"word": "fattura"
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{
"word": "malocchio"
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"ipa": "/maˈkum.ba/"
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{
"rhymes": "-umba"
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"dative",
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"ipa": "/maˈkum.ba/"
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{
"rhymes": "-umba"
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"Portuguese lemmas",
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"Portuguese terms borrowed from Kimbundu",
"Portuguese terms derived from Kimbundu",
"Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation",
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"Rhymes:Portuguese/ũbɐ/3 syllables",
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"pt:Religion"
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"word": "Umbanda"
},
{
"word": "Quimbanda"
},
{
"word": "Candomblé"
}
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"word": "macumbeiro"
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{
"word": "chuta que é macumba"
}
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"tags": [
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}
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],
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"feminine"
]
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"any Afro-Brazilian religion, especially but not limited to Candomblé, Quimbanda, and Umbanda, so named after their use of the macumba and other African instruments"
],
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"Candomblé",
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],
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"Quimbanda",
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[
"Umbanda",
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"word": "maldição"
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"word": "feitiço"
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{
"word": "mandinga"
}
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"broadly",
"feminine"
]
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"Brazilian Portuguese"
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"(Brazil, by extension) offerings to the entities worshiped in those religions, often for the realization of a spell"
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{
"word": "despacho"
}
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"Brazil",
"broadly",
"feminine"
]
}
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"ipa": "/maˈkũ.bɐ/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
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"ipa": "/maˈkũ.bɐ/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/maˈkũ.ba/",
"tags": [
"Southern-Brazil"
]
},
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"ipa": "/mɐˈkũ.bɐ/",
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},
{
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}
],
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}
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