See metaphysics on Wiktionary
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "metafízika",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "метафи́зика"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "形而上學"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xíng'érshàngxué",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "形而上学"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "xíngshàng",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "形上"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metafyzika"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "metafysik"
},
{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "metafiziko"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "metafysiikka"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metafísica"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Metaphysik"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "metafysikí",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "μεταφυσική"
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{
"code": "gu",
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"roman": "tattvamīmā̃sā",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "io",
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"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "metafiziko"
},
{
"code": "id",
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"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "metafisika"
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{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "metaphysica"
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{
"code": "ga",
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"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"alt": "けいじじょうがく",
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"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "形而上学"
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{
"code": "km",
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"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "បរមត្ថវិជ្ជា"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "ɑhsdə ruup viccie",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "អស្តិរូបវិជ្ជា"
},
{
"alt": "形而上學",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "hyeong'isanghak",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "형이상학"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metaphysica"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metafizika"
},
{
"code": "mk",
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"roman": "metafízika",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "метафи́зика"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "metafysikk"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "metafysikk"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metafisica"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metafizyka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metafísica"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "metafízika",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "метафи́зика"
},
{
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "metapheisics"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metafyzika"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metafizika"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metafísica"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"class-9"
],
"word": "metafizikia"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "higliknayan"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "labawsugnayan"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "อภิปรัชญา"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "metafizik"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "mabaduttabiyye"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "metafízyka",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "метафі́зика"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"word": "siêu hình học"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metafizike"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "metafizik",
"sense": "branch of philosophy that studies first principles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "מעטאַפֿיזיק"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"metaphysics"
],
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}
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