See obol on Wiktionary
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"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From ubul, compare Mansaka ubul.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mba",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "obol",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Higaonon",
"lang_code": "mba",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Higaonon entries with incorrect language header",
"Higaonon lemmas",
"Higaonon nouns",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"smoke"
],
"links": [
[
"smoke",
"smoke"
]
]
}
],
"word": "obol"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "fr",
"3": "obole"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from French obole",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "la",
"3": "obolus"
},
"expansion": "Latin obolus",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from French obole, from Latin obolus.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "oboluri",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ro-noun-n-uri",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "obol",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "obolul",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "oboluri",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "obolurile",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "obol",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "obolului",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "oboluri",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "obolurilor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"error-unrecognized-form",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "obolule",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "obolurilor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "n",
"2": "oboluri"
},
"expansion": "obol n (plural oboluri)",
"name": "ro-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"g": "n",
"gpd": "obolurilor",
"gpi": "oboluri",
"gsd": "obolului",
"gsi": "obol",
"n": "",
"npd": "obolurile",
"npi": "oboluri",
"nsd": "obolul",
"nsi": "obol",
"vp": "obolurilor",
"vs": "obolule",
"vs2": ""
},
"name": "ro-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian countable nouns",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian neuter nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French",
"Romanian terms derived from Latin"
],
"glosses": [
"obole"
],
"links": [
[
"obole",
"obole"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter"
]
}
],
"word": "obol"
}
Download raw JSONL data for obol meaning in All languages combined (7.9kB)
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"called_from": "parser/304",
"msg": "HTML tag <div> not properly closed",
"path": [
"obol"
],
"section": "Afar",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "obol",
"trace": "started on line 106, detected on line 106"
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
"path": [
"obol"
],
"section": "Afar",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "obol",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive-dative'",
"path": [
"obol"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "obol",
"trace": ""
}
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